The Next Challenge

Category: Tim’s Adventures

  • We Are Cycling to Australia

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    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 look at it, leave a message and tell your friends about it… [button color=”blue” link=”http://thenextchallenge.org/portfolio/bigcycle/” size=”big” font=”arial” fontw=”bold”…

  • Two Days in Patagonia

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    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. [divide] The ferry departed leaving us alone at the roadside. Puffed up clouds filled the sky and a cold breeze set an ominous tone for…

  • Why I Wrote a Book

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    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 often asking the same questions. The most popular of which was some permutation of “How do I pay for my trip?“. As a result, I…

  • Sealskinz Hats, Gloves and Socks

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    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 with my circulation or just my constitution remains to be determined but, either way, my hands and feet are forever cold in the outdoors and…

  • Brooks England

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    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 saddles and a set of their lovely Lands End and John O’Groats waterproof panniers (made by Ortlieb) as well as a saddlebag…

  • Lyon Equipment Sponsorship

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    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 equipment for a selection of the best adventures to apply. Laura and I submitted an application a couple of months ago and eventually received…

  • 10 Memorable Expedition Meals

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    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-Coed after a seemingly endless downhill bicycle free-wheel (9 miles!) in the dark looking for somewhere to pitch. Finally tucking into the Spotted Dick &…

  • Easter Cycling Video

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    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 our cycle, just capturing some video to upload to the website for fun. Key to this is ease. The filming is already dead…

  • Photos from Cycling the Length of England #2

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     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 National Cycle Route 1 up to Edinburgh. We were testing out a system of uploading photos to Laura’s Nexus tablet computer and uploading…

  • The Cycle Tourist’s Daily Routine

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    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 reminder of the daily practices on a cycle tour. Here’s how it goes… [divide] We’re on our new bikes, carrying a tent, a camping stove…

  • Easter Cycling Photos #1

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    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 then you can view the slideshow here on Flickr.

  • Cycling from Cornwall to Scotland

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      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 online last week (you might have seen it on my Light My Fire blog): [divide] 1,000km from Devon to Scotland. That’s…