Korea provided some of the best cycling of our trip but it also seems to have turned up some of the best images (and I am allowed to say that because Laura takes almost all of the photos). Here are what I think are the highlights: Farmer working... Read more
Your sleeping bag is often the largest item in your bag. When it comes to packing it, you usually have one of two choices: A compression bag – squeezes it down small but leaves it at risk of getting wet A dry bag – keeps those... Read more
Today, a guest blog from James Ketchell AKA Captain Ketch, the man who has rowed across the Atlantic Ocean, summited Mount Everest and cycle around the world. James recently joined the database of Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ) and kindly o... Read more
Sorry, but what else did you expect me to call this article? We landed in Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) a couple of days ago and tomorrow will set forth on our bikes once more, in the direction now of Singapore. That will take us through Vietnam... Read more
A few nights ago, we slept in a disabled toilet. Don’t get me wrong, it was a nice disabled toilet (although alas, no Dyson Airblade), but it was still a toilet. It was pouring down in Korea and it was the driest, warmest place we could fi... Read more
This interview is part of a series in which we interview certain people featured on the database of long distance cycle journeys (LDCJ), which records individual bicycle trips over 10,000km in length. For more details, click here. Lorenzo Rojo h... Read more
Brooks England are best known for their iconic (and excellent) leather saddles. However, they do in fact have a wide range of other products. Most of their products fall into the category of beautiful but expensive. Their new pannier range... Read more
Last year I received an email from Jens O. Meiert about the Everyday Adventures campaign I ran a few years ago. Independently, he had written a book called 100 Things I Learned As An Everyday Adventurer. So it seemed like a good idea to get in t... Read more
Picture the scene. We are outside the main train station in a Japanese city, all glass and steel and impeccably clean. There are hundreds of commuters streaming past: impossibly skinny women wearing impossibly high heels and immaculate men in im... Read more
We started cycling last August and aim to be back this Christmas which means that, last month, we reached the half way point of our trip: 8 months in. We also clocked 6,000 miles on our odometers, 10,000km. This means that we have at last qualif... Read more
Those of you that have followed this blog in recent weeks will know that we’ve been having a good whinge about our time in India. The rose tinting of hindsight has already made it start to seem like a month of humorous chaos. Hopefully thi... Read more
This interview is part of a series in which we interview people featured on the database of long distance cycle journeys (LDCJ), which records individual bicycle trips over 10,000km in length. For more details, click here. This may be the most i... Read more
