Cycling through the fifties
Tuesday, 23 Sep 2025 8:47 AM MYTBy Helen Hickey SEPTEMBER 23 — One of life’s milestones, well for me at least: my very first cycling trip. It’s been a long time in coming, going by my decade-old column celebrating my first entry into the world of MAMILs, Middle Aged Men in Lycra, or rather MAWILs, the female equivalent. That’s when I joined my local cycling club in the northwest of Paris to escape the four kids, the animals and kitchen on a Sunday morning. I’d be up with t
Paris Olympics: Time for the City of Light to shine
Wednesday, 15 May 2024 8:04 AM MYTBy Helen Hickey MAY 15 ― We are on countdown here in Paris, less than three months to go before the City of Light opens her doors to the Olympics in late July, followed by the Paralympics Games which run from August 28 to September 8. It’s been exactly 100 years since she last hosted the games, a piece of trivia I picked up while visiting the Musée Carnevale where they had an enormous decorative vase commemorating the 1924 Paris Olympics on d
