Stories from winners of The Next Challenge Grant and my own adventures…
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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…
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Berghaus Microadventures
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.…
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Update from Iran
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…
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Film Review: Janapar, Love on a Bike
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…
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Watch our latest video: Winter in the Caucasus
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…
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Update from Armenia
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…
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Tips for cycling into Istanbul
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…
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Desert Snow by Helen Lloyd – Book Review
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,…
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Are we wasting our lives?
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…
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Living the Best Day Ever
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…
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A million miles of cycling in numbers
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…
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Why two breakfasts are better than one
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…
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