Category: Living Adventurously
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Book Review: Essential Gear for Cycle Touring by Tom Allen
Tom Allen of Toms Bike Trip has recently published an ebook dedicated to providing advice for cycle tourists who need to kit themselves out. It’s a fantastic resource and chock full of hard earned knowledge. Now, before buying a self-published ebook, you might be a little hesitant about the quality of such a publication but…
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The First Man to Row the Atlantic, Climb Everest and Cycle the World
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 offered to write a piece for The Next Challenge. Over to the Captain… Over to…
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Cycle touring for 16 years…and still going
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. [divide] Lorenzo Rojo has been cycling around the world for an incredible 17 years, covering 190,000 km so…
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The Most Boring Person in the World
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 touch. Today Jens is taking over the blog to write about a new…
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Choosing what to do with your life
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 immaculate suits. I, meanwhile, am sitting on the pavement in my temporary role as Guardian of…
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Legally blind – and cycled the Americas
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. [divide] This may be the most inspiring story you’ll ever read. Christi Bruchok and Tauru Chaw are both registered…
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Come to the Cycle Touring Festival
We are very excited to announce that we are planning a Cycle Touring Festival, to take place in Spring 2015. Our first step is to gauge the level of enthusiasm for this kind of event, so please read on and sign up below if you’re interested. The aim would be to bring together those who…
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Into the Empty Quarter – Film Review
Over Christmas you may have caught a film about Ben Fogle and James Cracknell crossing the Empty Quarter desert. No doubt their film had the perfect blend of emotion, drama and eventual tear-jerking success – I have no idea, having been holed up in a hostel in a corner of Georgia at the time it…
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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. They are similar to the Everyday Adventures campaign I ran in 2010 and the Berghaus…
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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 spent 4-years cycling all over Europe, Africa and the odd bit of Asia. He carried…
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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, around west Africa and through the Congo as uncommon would probably be understatement. And understatement…