Robbie Coltrane Encourages Bicycling

According to the artcle in the The Scotsman, he has...

likened interviews to a conversation with someone carrying a gun. So he's currently deploying every diversion, joke, funny accent and trick in the book to avoid getting on with the task in hand.

Well, the task at hand is actually well worth reading about it turns out.

The Scots-born actor is actually here to talk about Robbie Coltrane: B-Road Britain, a three-part travel documentary series that starts this week on STV. The premise is that, 50 years after the creation of the M1 and the M6, the "fat guy from Scotland" shuns our gridlocked motorways in favour of meandering country B-roads in an attempt to discover the true essence of Britain today. His journey takes him from London to Glasgow in a classic Jaguar sports car. Along the way, he takes in everything from a game of tiddlywinks in Cambridge to a cheese-rolling festival in Stilton and a night spent with a group of devout Tibetan monks in a remote Buddhist temple deep in the countryside at Eskdalemuir.

Now, um, you may be asking what this has to do with bicycling?

I'm getting there, I'm getting there! ;-D

there are huge stretches not on the tourist map at all that are absolutely beautiful. There are miles and miles and miles of Britain that are so stunningly beautiful and all you have to do is get in a car or on a bicycle to go and see it."

With Hagrid plugging, even in a small way, the pleasures of Bicycling, will the Potter Mad in Britain hit the road?

It seems he did a similar journey in a Cadillac for a Documentary, 4,000 mile tour of America, 14 years ago.

The full piece is here:  Touring classic By Tim Randall - 8/11