Heart Routes

​Below are a small selection of heart-shaped routes I've created since 2011. Click or hover above them to find out more, or discover the start of a poem. If you're interested in featuring one, please get it touch.

Featured Heart Route

• Heart Route 57
• Lostwithiel, Cornwall
​• Dog-friendly co-living

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Route 57 - Cornwall, England - Poem 'Nomad Ride' Searching my whole life, to find it in one place, realising it's not with, when, or where I thought it would be...

Route 56 - Costa Rica - Poem 'Pura Vida' Sweet simple life, jungle bungalow, terrace in the trees, naked journalling, sweet silent presence, monkeys chasing mangos, moths dressed as butterflies, tea replaced with coconuts...

Route 54 - Mallorca, Spain - Poem 'The Race' A sea of lycra, riding for speed, miles, hills, admiring the contrast, while gazing at my map...

Route 52 - Milton Keynes, England - Mental Health Awareness week 2024 - Poem 'Algorithm Toy' Reel, story, feed, this one, that one, this one, mobile screen fusing, to fingers filtering skin...

Route 47 - Furzton Lake, Milton Keynes - Poem 'The J-spot' As depression filled my page, I rose to my feet, packed my journal of regrets, till I rode back in control, riding to my J-spot, the spot the hits my heart...

Route 53 - Sydney, Australia - Poem 'The Screenshot Part 2' Unable to tell, it it's the moon or sun, sea or clouds, sunrise or dusk, floating above the horizon, seat 35A, lips parted, silent and in awe, at the rising red ball...

Route 50 - Milton Keynes Podcast episode No.3, can bicycles save the world? The idea for this route actually came from my future 100 yr old self. Apparently I ended up in the 23rd century, and was a guest on a podcast called ‘Tests from the Future’. Simon and Dirk started their unique show when they discovered they were able to actually send episodes back in time...

Route 46 - Paris - Poem 'The Ride Home' Ride until past pain softens and future frets fate, until your ocean breath returns, and your saddle feels like home...

Route 44 - Lagos, Portugal. Learning to rest and recharge

Route 43 - Montseny National Park, Spain - Poem 'Soul Reunion' Tree trunks into the sky, emerald green leaves, golden sunlight slicing through, kissin the earth, the...

Route 30 - Brighton, England - Poem 'The Route to Friendship' Sometimes in life you'll visit somewhere and fall in love, destined to return, that place for me was Brighton...

Route 27, Rio, Brazil - Poem 'The Rio Whisper' Two years ago you sprung from a photo, and remained imprinted on my heart...

Route 25 - Amsterdam - Poem 'The Grateful Fly' Woven in a web of confusion, my wings tightly bound, it took six years and twenty-five heart routes to realise it...

Route 19 - Barcelona, Spain - The world biggest eye contact experiment took place around the world...

Route 34, Copenhagen, Denmark - Poem 'The Danish Route to Happiness' A sea of cycle lands, more bikes than cars, a city in synch, hearts seem to link...

Route 32 - Tulum, Mexico - Poem 'The Rainbow of Friendship' Did you see the rainbow? Beneath the Tulum pyramid, my friend woke me from my camera coma, so focused on getting the perfect shot, my eyes had been blind to the beauty behind it...

Route 35, Altea, Spain - Poem 'Body Still, Mind on Fire' The numbness spreads, my legs gone dead, if only I could move, the tenacious fly, that active gardener, if only I had silence...

Route 18 - Lisbon, Portugal

Milton Keynes Breeze ride 2012

Milton Keynes Heart Route with Sean Conway

Route 24 - Cambridge, England - Poem 'The Screenshot' It started a few years ago, a screenshot to capture the special moment, I've lost count now, it's become the norm, and it's only sunk in recently...

Route 5 - Munich, Germany

Rome, Italy

Milton Keynes Christimas Breeze ride

2012 Furzton, Milton Keynes Heart Route

Milton Keynes Breeze bike ride

Route 1 - The 2011 launch of Cycle Your Heart Out in Milton Keynes - Poem 'Unblocked' Bathed in yoga sweat, soaked in a mindful bliss, creativity and clarity fused together, procrastination temporarily muzzled, self-hate on pause...