In six weeks’ time, Laura and I will be starting a cycle ride to Australia. I’ve created a new page on the site where you can read about our plans and follow us. Please do have a... Read more
I recently wrote a piece for the beautiful Sidetracked magazine. It was about the first two days of my wife and I’s walk across South America, and is reproduced below. The ferry depart... Read more
I frequently receive emails asking for help with expeditions. It’s what I started my website for. However, after the first year of fielding such emails, I realised that people were oft... Read more
Whilst Laura researches trivial matters such as visas and border crossings in preparation for our bike trip this summer, I have been primarily concerned with gloves. Whether the blame lies w... Read more
Myself and my bottom are very glad to announce that we will be cycling to Australia on the finest leather saddles from Brooks England. Brooks have kindly sent us two of their classic B17 sad... Read more
Lyon Equipment are the UK importer for a number of well-known outdoors brands such as Petzl, Ortlieb and Exped. For some years they ran an annual expedition award which provided sponsored eq... Read more
Food and expeditions go together like cheese and pickle. Here are some particularly memorable meals from my travels: Smash and tinned mackerel eaten in silence in a torch-lit tent in Betws-y... Read more
We took our GoPro video camera with us on the cycle trip over Easter. We’ll be taking it around the world with us too. We won’t be attempting to make a proper documentary about o... Read more
A few photographs from the second half of our recent cycle ride. This batch come from the stretch from Lancashire out to the east coast near Newcastle from where we followed Sustrans Nation... Read more
Our two week training trip – cycling 1,000km from Plymouth in the south west of England to Edinburgh up in Scotland – finished last weekend and it’s been a delightful remin... Read more
A few photographs from our first week of cycling north from Plymouth to Lancashire are below. More snaps to follow later in the week. If the images above aren’t displaying properly the... Read more
Laura and I have just returned from Edinburgh having cycled there from Plymouth. I had some trouble with my website whilst we were away so here is an article that should have gone onl... Read more
