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Why we have changed our cycling route

Posted By: Tim Mosson: February 07, 2014In: Tim's Adventures11 Comments

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 in... Read more

Berghaus Microadventures

Posted By: Tim Mosson: February 05, 2014In: Living Adventurously, Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

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... Read more

Update from Iran

Posted By: Tim Mosson: February 04, 2014In: Tim's Adventures5 Comments

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 appe... Read more

Film Review: Janapar, Love on a Bike

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 29, 2014In: Living Adventurously, Tim's Adventures1 Comment

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 sp... Read more

Watch our latest video: Winter in the Caucasus

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 27, 2014In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

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 ye... Read more

Update from Armenia

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 22, 2014In: Tim's AdventuresNo Comments

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 fo... Read more

Tips for cycling into Istanbul

Posted By: Laura Mosson: January 20, 2014In: Advice Articles, Tim's Adventures14 Comments

To be perfectly honest, we were dreading our arrival in Istanbul. We had heard other cyclists go on and on about what an awful city it is to cycle in and out of, with the main roads into the city effectively being four lane motorways. Traffic f... Read more

Desert Snow by Helen Lloyd – Book Review

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 16, 2014In: Living Adventurously1 Comment

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 thr... Read more

Are we wasting our lives?

Posted By: Laura Mosson: January 13, 2014In: Tim's Adventures9 Comments

Now, this blog post is not going to be an angst-ridden piece questioning why I crave adventure. There are way too many of those articles out there and frankly, I don’t care about your existential quest for meaning so don’t expect you... Read more

Living the Best Day Ever

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 12, 2014In: Living AdventurouslyNo Comments

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 des... Read more

A million miles of cycling in numbers

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 10, 2014In: Advice Articles2 Comments

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 ... Read more

Why two breakfasts are better than one

Posted By: Tim Mosson: January 08, 2014In: Tim's Adventures2 Comments

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 glo... Read more