Six years ago I quit my job to live a more adventurous life and help other people do the same. My website and profile have grown in that time but I may have given the impression that I make... Read more
Life rarely brings what you expect of it. And cycling around the world is no different. How could it be? From our desks in London, how could we have imagined the places we’d see and th... Read more
I walked out of my front door for the first time, age 14, with 75-litres’ worth of kit on my back and made a bee line for Exmoor carrying a change of jeans, a clutch of Pot Noodle and... Read more
His huge form loomed over us in the doorway. Shaved head and powerful piercing eyes invisibly forcing us back into the darkened street. Well don’t just stand there, he said, come on in... Read more
I often get asked to give “interviews” by email and, on the off chance they might be of interest to anyone reading this blog, I thought I’d share the links to some recent o... Read more
I looked down at my smart phone then ahead at the dirt track illuminated by the headlights of our Mazda. ‘It should be on our left any time now’, I reported to Laura at the steer... Read more
Upon our return from cycling around the world we were presented with the most wonderful present from our friends. They had sifted through our many Twitter updates from the 16 months we spent... Read more
Tickets for the Cycle Touring Festival went on sale this morning. You can buy them here. There are a limited number of discounted ‘Early Bird’ tickets available. They are already... Read more
We were interviewed by a journalist from The Telegraph recently for a piece about couples who go on ‘extreme adventures’. The article (which you can read here) was very short but... Read more
***UPDATE: You can now join our Strava group to log your miles here*** Have you resolved to get fit this year? Have you started January determined to lose weight, tone up and feel hea... Read more
Every week or so, whilst cycling around the world, I took a photograph of myself (a “selfie”) to document the growth of my expedition beard. Presented below are all of the photog... Read more
Last Sunday Laura and I rolled back into Hampton Court where we had left from 16 months earlier. We were greeted by a wonderful crowd of friends and family waving us in. It has been a long a... Read more
