{"id":23,"date":"2016-06-04T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T09:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:02:08","slug":"cycling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle Touring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    This is one of my first attempts at making\u00a0a short film about cycle touring. It was\u00a0a combination of two cycle tours that happened in May and then during my children’s summer holiday in 2012. The first time I cycle toured with my three children…..it was a test run. We took as little as possible, only one tent between the 4 of us on a tour of 3 nights around Penwith in Cornwall…..from home to home. Well summer came and we were all looking forward to\u00a0a longer tour and this time we had own tents, We already had\u00a0a lot of equipment from family camping trips to Cumbria and Scotland over the years……good times….<\/p>\n

    My partner Julia and I had been on several cycle tours before we had children and had always talked and half planned of going on a more ambitious long distance cycle touring trip as\u00a0a family. We wanted to wait\u00a0a while though…. to introduce our children to cycle touring slowly, to let them discover for themselves the freedom, the excitement and the joy of exploring the world through cycling…..Since 2007 we had been cycling to school<\/p>\n

    It was complicated though….. tragically we had suffered the worst loss imaginable….. Julia was diagnosed with cancer….a brain stem glioma in early 2010 and died in my arms\u00a0 in August 2010. In 2012 we were effectively being made homeless. But rather than despair, I turned it around into an adventure. My children had been through so much I decided let’s do something positive, we had everything we needed, so with\u00a0a few months planning,\u00a0a lot of hard work and difficult decisions, including sorting out 26 years of accumulated stuff,\u00a0and that really took us to the very last moment to sort….but then it was done, and we set off.<\/p>\n

    I hope you enjoy the video, if so please subscribe, rate, leave\u00a0a comment and share……and keep popping back…there will be more….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div>

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