Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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Our Video from Cycling Across Australia and New Zealand
Here’s the latest video from our trip and the second to last of the lot. It’s from our ride through southern Australia and New Zealand’s North Island. It’s only about 60 seconds long so take a look! You can see…
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Photos of Middle Earth
Here are some of our favourite photos from cycling across New Zealand’s North Island. New Zealand is a beautiful place… As well as the nice views, it has some interesting Maori history… They’ve got some great cycle routes, including old…
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God Bless America
No more family. No more familiar faces presenting us with plates of delicious food. No more spending our days on a couch, in a car or by the pool. No more bed, no more mattress. No more anyone. It was…
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List of the World’s Largest Deserts
Can’t decide what to do for your next expedition? Here’s a list of the eight largest desert’s on the planet taken from The Economist’s excellent World in Figures. What are the largest deserts? Sahara Desert* – Northern Africa – 8,600km²…
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10 Tips for Filming Your First Expedition
This article is part of a series in which experts in their field share their top ten tips. Today’s advice comes from Leon McCarron who’s excellent documentaries have featured on National Geographic and been reviewed on this website. You can…
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We’re in America… what should we eat?
We are about to cycle across the southern states of the USA. This is the final leg of our bicycle journey around the world, and over the last few months people have been telling us how good the food is…
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37 Round-the-World Cyclists Share Their Kit Lists
We’ve compiled kit lists from 37 different long distance cycle tourers and put them all in one place: here. The cyclists all come from the Database of Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ)* . Of the 139 trips registered, 37 of…
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This Is What I Think About Adventurers
I recently sorted through some of my Opinion articles from over the years and drew out a few themes about expeditions and adventure. Here is a summary of my ethos with plenty of links… My strong view is that adventure…
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Why New Zealand might just be the most awesome country in the world
There are rocks in New Zealand which are just a few years old. By the time you read this, there might even be some which are just a few hours’ old, should one of the country’s many volcanoes have decided…
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Our Kit List for Cycling Around the World
This is a comprehensive list of pretty much every single item that Laura and I have with us, in our panniers, on our bikes and about our persons. We have written separately about particular areas of kit already e.g. wet…
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