Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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The definition of ‘literally’ was recently amended so that it can now be accurately used to mean metaphorically: a change which provoked the wrath of my more pedantic Facebook friends. Status updates from the Outraged of Facebook declared that they…
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If Cycling Around The World Is So Good Then How Come I Just Want To Watch DVDs?
A big cycling trip is something of which I, and we, have dreamed for many years. Ever since spending three weeks pedalling through Scandinavia alone in 2009, before that listening to Alastair Humphreys talk about his four years of bike-based…
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Update From Croatia (What Do You Want Me To Say?)
We are now on the Croatian island of Hvar, a little way off the coast from Split. We have taken a few days rest in a small apartment as a belated birthday treat. Last time we wrote properly we were…
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Photos from Cycling Across Italy
Big Cycle Part 4: Italy, a set on Flickr. Here are our pictures from our ride through northern Italy – Milan, Verona, Venice. [divide] Photo Blogs This photo blog is part of a series from our round-the-world bike trip. Here’s…
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Adventures Insurance
Travelling around the world for a year or more on a bicycle requires some significant travel insurance. Ours has been generously provided by Adventurers Insurance. They provide tailor-made insurance for activities like ours and have offered a 10% discount to…
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Another Week’s Cycling
Venezia! Another week on the road, evaporated into thin air. Another five mornings packing away a dew ridden tent and inhaling entire packets of breakfast cereal. Another 400km consumed through the hard slog of bumpy roads, inclines and sugar lows,…
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Sit back and spin
“It’ll be easy”, he said. “They manage the gradients over there. You just have to sit back and spin your feet round”. These were the wise words from our friend Dave, who had previously cycled through the Alps on a…
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Crossing the Alps by Bicycle (Video)
The Alps felt like our first proper test. We knew we could cycle 50 miles a day several days in a row with a heavy bike but neither of us had ever cycled over a 2,000-metre pass before now. It…
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Cycling in France
We pass through a succession of tiny villages, each identical to the last. Mass times are displayed on entry to the village and we stop to rest under the trees in the central square, watched over by the mairie. The…
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EuroVelo 6 in Photos
Big Cycle Part 2: Paris to Basel, a set on Flickr. Here’s a collection of photographs taken from our cycle between Paris and Basel, largely along the glorious EuroVelo 6 cycle route. You can browse them on Flickr (which might…
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Puncture Watch
A sudden bumping, a thwack thwack sound, a sinking heart. I shout ahead to Tim to wait while I dismount and check. Yep, another puncture. Punctures are a pain at any time, but especially when your bike is loaded up…
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We Are Not Cycling To Australia
We have been cycling for just a couple of weeks and, of course, the people we meet along the way ask us where we are headed. In the first week, joined by friends who were pedalling with us to Paris,…
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