The weird "sport" of cheese rolling

Dianna Henry — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

On the last Monday each May (the Late Spring Bank Holiday), a hillside in Gloucestershire becomes over run with men and women of all ages jostling (and falling over) for the best vantage point to witness the Cheese Rolling Races. The 2009 event attracted over 15,000 spectators.

Riding from London to Paris - by Louise and Monique Pronk

Dianna Henry — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Monique and I decided that before I left London (where I’d lived for the past 9 years) we should have a final sister Pronk ‘hurrah’ and do something exciting.

Having both been bike fanatics in London (not the ‘I have an expensive speed bike with cool clip on shoes’ fanatics, more the ‘I love my bike because it has a basket and it’s Dutch even though the brakes don’t really work’ type fanatics). Monique owned a super duper Brompton fold up which she used all around London and last summer we spent 10 days using it to cycle around Ireland with our cousins.

So, we were ready for the big time. We wanted to do something that would be a) fun and b) sounded really impressive - so we came up with the idea of cycling from London to Paris.

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The weird "sport" of cheese rolling

Riding from London to Paris - by Louise and Monique Pronk