Category: Tim’s Adventures
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How I Make a Living as an Adventurer (Hint: I Don’t)
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 a living from being an “adventurer”. I do not, have not and never will. Everything I…
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Cycling around the world is not what would you expect
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 the people we’d meet? We could never have predicted entering a stranger’s house and finding it littered with ammunition, gun…
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I Walked from Exmoor to Patagonia
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 four spare litres of water (“just in case”). Our mileage as a group was low but…
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All Human Life
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. The muscles of his forearm tensed as he dished out massive dollops of creamy mash potato. I’m a teacher, he told us…
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8 Interviews I’ve Given Recently
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 ones. Here goes… Mint – Mostly about budget travel but I enjoyed the opportunity to give my definition of adventure. Escapism –…
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The Kit You Need to Cross a Desert (without breaking the bank)
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 steering wheel. It was late Wednesday night in Oman and we were driving through a tiny village in the dark,…
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Around the World in 80 Tweets
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 on the road and picked out their favourite 80. They then worked out where in the world each update was sent from…
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Cycle Touring Festival Tickets on Sale Today
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 selling very fast as I write this at 9am. There’s a great programme of events and some really intersting speakers. Hope to see you there.
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Extreme Couples: Interview with The Telegraph
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 we actually wrote a lot more in response to the original questions so I thought I’d share the rest of the interview here. [divide]…
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Run a mile a day in 2015
***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 healthier? Or are you just looking for a challenge to fill the coming months, that will fit around your normal life?…
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Watch the Video of My Expedition Beard Growing While Cycling Around the World
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 photographs compiled into a 10-second video. Happy New Year! P.S. We’ve added loads of stuff about our trip to The Big Cycle page: click…
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Home, Sweet Home
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 and wonderful journey with far too many sentiments to fit into a blog post, let alone a sentence.…