Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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I had an email recently asking me about using an expedition to fundraise for a charity and what one might expect from that charity in exchange. I’ve changed the wording of the original question and embellished my reply a little…
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How I Make a Living as an Adventurer (Hint: I Don’t)
Six years ago I quit my job to live a more adventurous life and help other people do the same. My website and profile have grown in that time but I may have given the impression that I make a…
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How Much Does it Cost to Cycle Round the World?
[divide] I first published this article three years ago with an extract from my book How To Cycle Around The World. I asked nine cyclists who had done big cycling trips how much it cost them. Today I am updating the…
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Photography Competition Winners – 2015 Cycle Touring Festival
At last week’s inaugural Cycle Touring Festival, we ran a photo competition. All entries were from attendees and speakers. The competition was kindly sponsored by Pannier.cc. It’s a new website for travelling cyclists run by Stefan Amato and well worth…
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Resources from the Cycle Touring Festival
This weekend was the inaugural Cycle Touring Festival in Clitheroe, Lancashire. The dust has yet to settle completely but, by all accounts so far, it was a fantastic success. A wonderful weekend full of enthusiastic people coalesced around the common cause…
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“Normal life” is Full of Routines But So is Cycling Around the World (and that’s no bad thing)
This time last year I was having the time of my life, pedalling across South Korea. Now, I am back in the UK and back in a normal job. Every morning, I get up at the same time, put the…
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Is Crowd Funding an Acceptable Way to Pay for an Expedition?
Is “crowd funding” a great new way to kick start expeditions? Or is it just asking other people to pay for your holiday? Expeditions can be expensive. Although I personally advocate cheap adventures (like my friends Tom and Al do)…
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Cycling around the world is not what would you expect
Life rarely brings what you expect of it. And cycling around the world is no different. How could it be? From our desks in London, how could we have imagined the places we’d see and the people we’d meet? We…
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Deep South: Our Final Photos from Cycling Around the World
This is the last set of photographs from our round-the-world bike trip and they are some of my favourites from one of the most memorable legs of the journey: the American Deep South. Texas was our third biggest “country” with…
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How to Wash on a Cycle Tour (and other questions answered)
Hi Tim. Clearly you have done a lot of touring and adventuring, and as a newbie to the whole thing I just have a bunch of questions I’d love to ask a veteran. If you have a little time on…
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Proof That Anyone Can Cross a Desert
I started this blog six years ago to encourage people to go on adventures and help them where I can. People email me questions all the time. I write back to every single one but many never even reply to…
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