A cycling return home: exploring the lost lanes of Wales

A new guidebook to meandering rural bike rides helps reintroduce Emily Chappell to the countryside of her mid-Wales childhood

"Oh, I don't know "" says my father, shaking his head and sucking his teeth, as if I'd asked him to make a much more serious decision than coming out for a ride with me on the only sunny day of the week.

"It'll be fun!" I attempt to convince him. "We haven't cycled together for - well, it's got to be years, hasn't it? And you're always saying you want to spend more time on the bike."