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Author: Tim Moss

  • Ever wondered what Armenia looks like?

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    Laura and I recently cycled through the small but historic and proud nation of Armenia. Here’s a little bit about the place and a few wintery snaps so you can see for yourself what it looks like… We entered from Georgia and followed the hotly disputed Azerbaian border. Large boulders on either side are painted…

  • Photographs from Cycling Through Georgia in Winter

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    Here are our pictures from a few weeks spent riding through Georgia over Christmas and the New Year. Click an image to view full screen and browse properly (any problem, just go here) Highlights include: Santa Claus smoking a fag on his lunch break  Breaking the 4,000 mile barrier Man (Tim) vs Food (huge khacapouri…

  • Why we have changed our cycling route

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    The plan we had originally announced would follow Iran was to go north through Central Asia and the Stans then across China and down into South East Asia. This was actually our Plan B. We had initially hoped to stay south through Pakistan and into India. It’s more direct, warmer and held more interest to…

  • Berghaus Microadventures

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    Head over to the Berghaus website to check out the start of our series of microadventure ideas for 2014. I’ve written about microadventures before – they are the brainchild of adventurer Alastair Humphreys, tiny little adventures for weekends and after work. They are similar to the Everyday Adventures campaign I ran in 2010 and the Berghaus…

  • Update from Iran

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    So we have made it into Iran and, as it happens, are already half way through our expensive 30-day visa (touch-wood, we may be able to extend it).We are in Qom, a holy city with a big holy shrine and – like all Iranian cities it would appear – filled with people shouting: “Hello!” “Welcome!”…

  • Film Review: Janapar, Love on a Bike

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    Janapar Movie A movie about a guy cycling around the world, filming himself with a video camera does not sound like the perfect recipe for 90-minutes of cinematographic entertainment but the reality is that Janapar is a masterpiece. Tom Allen spent 4-years cycling all over Europe, Africa and the odd bit of Asia. He carried…

  • Watch our latest video: Winter in the Caucasus

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    Here’s our new video from two months’ winter cycling through eastern Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. P.S. Thanks to everyone who viewed our last video: Quit Job, Cycle to Asia. We finished in the top 50 of the competition, got a free year’s membership for the video editing software and were featured on the company’s blog!…

  • Update from Armenia

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    Last week marked five months on the road. In that time we have cycled some 4,000 miles across a dozen different countries to reach Iran. The first two or three months were bliss: following the sun south meant perpetual warmth and good weather for camping outside and cycling late into the evenings. Somewhere around the…

  • Desert Snow by Helen Lloyd – Book Review

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    Snow in the desert is a rare thing and so are solo female cyclists in Africa. Such is the premise for Helen Lloyd’s first book and it is not disingenuous in the least. To describe cycling alone across the Sahara, around west Africa and through the Congo as uncommon would probably be understatement. And understatement…

  • Living the Best Day Ever

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    Hendri Coetzee is the greatest African explorer you have never heard of. Hendri was a dedicated and passionate African explorer, considered by many to be a legend in his own time. He devoted his life to exploration and in particular to first descents on some of Africa’s lesser known and remotest rivers, and to the…

  • A million miles of cycling in numbers

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    A couple of weeks ago we launched Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ), an online resource of bicycle journeys over 6,000 miles (10,000km). We’ve had a huge response already (see below) and are pleased to be able to launch the accompanying Summary Stats page: everything from how far cycle tourists travel in an average month, to what type of…

  • Why two breakfasts are better than one

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    The morning was dirt tracks, hills and pot holes. As evening encroached, the road widened and the sky turned orange as we sailed onwards under a headwind. We knew the next town could not be far away and soon its approach was signalled by the glowing yellow rectangles of inhabited buildings and by the barking…