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  • 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…

  • Tips for cycling into Istanbul

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    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 from the whole of southern Europe is funnelled into a…

  • Are we wasting our lives?

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    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 to care about mine. Nor will I preach about how important it is…

  • 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…

  • What have you done while I’ve cycled the world?

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    The story below is ironic/self-parodying/not serious! I hoped that was clear but some of the comments suggested otherwise so I have added this introduction. The purpose of the piece was to pillory the self-satisfied tone that “adventurers” occasionally adopt (I’m living the dream while you’re wasting your life) and highlight the evident flaws of taking…

  • Turkish hospitality

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    We spent forty nine nights in Turkey, and used our tent on just four of them. Many of these nights indoors were impromptu acts of kindness, when we knocked on a random door at the end of a day of pedalling and were invited in to share a meal and have a warm bed for…

  • We are in the running for a €3,000 award

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    In addition to maintaining this website, whilst we have been cycling across Europe and now Asia, we have kept a blog for the outdoor equipment company Light My Fire. Back in January, Laura and I were shortlisted for the Light My Fire Adventurer of the Year award. This means we have a lifetime supply of…