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Category: Tim’s Adventures

  • Digging for gold in Australia

    Digging for gold in Australia

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    This morning, a man with an eye patch unrolled a map on our breakfast table and showed us where to dig for gold. I kid you not. We’d first spotted this chap – let’s call him One Eyed Bruce – rummaging through a bin a few yards away. We had spent the night at a…

  • Farewell to Asia

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    And so we bid farewell to Asia. It is nine months since we first crossed the Bosphorus under stormy skies to enter Anatolia. Nine months since we left Europe behind. Nine months since we last went to a Lidl. After nine months of inching our way across Asia, it is time to say goodbye to…

  • The Adventure is Over: What Lies Ahead

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    STATUS REPORT: We will very soon be leaving South East Asia. After that comes English speaking countries (or at least countries in which they do their best at it). And with them come Caucasian faces, Western food and the familiarity of countries in which we’ve either lived or spent time. The adventurous part is over.…

  • Sleeping in bike shops and temples

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    We have just arrived in Malaysia, truly Asia. We had made our way down the western coast of Thailand, taking a couple of days off to enjoy the beaches and catch up on admin in Krabi.  This part of Thailand is a tourist honeypot, something we welcomed as a change from the usual routine.  Two…

  • The Worst Visa Office in the World?

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    We followed the muddy red track towards a tin hut where a long, drooping, orange and white barrier blocked our path. With Vietnam being almost entirely devoid of four-wheeled vehicles, we simply joined the motorbikes in skirting around the barrier on a well worn patch of dirt and some moments later it became apparent that…

  • The Dogs in Greece

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    Tim Moss
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    The sun was high and so was morale as we cruised side by side on the current of a tailwind. We were in Greece, on bikes and life was good. Good, at least, until a hand gesture changed everything. Laura spotted it before me. This wasn’t the first such encounter – in fact, they were…

  • Update from South East Asia

    Update from South East Asia

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    After the efficiency and obsessive cleanliness of Japan, it was with a certain amount of trepidation that we entered Vietnam. I’d wanted to come here for years, but wondered whether the craziness of the traffic and the inevitable attention we’d get as a couple of white cyclists would make it too stressful to enjoy the…

  • Communicating without language

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    Laura Moss
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    In the middle of a cafe shack, somewhere in the Vietnamese jungle,  Tim mimed pulling his trousers down and squatted on the floor. The two lady cafe owners fell about laughing, then shook their head and shrugged. They clearly had no idea what we were talking about. We’re getting nowhere and I’m desperate. Let’s just…

  • 15 Photos from India on Bicycles

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    Tim Moss
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    We spent a month cycling across India in March and April this year. Here are a selection of snaps. You can see the whole album on Flickr. [divide] Taking bikes on public transport is a pain but it does at least lead to lots of conversations with locals. It was nice to be bike-free tourists…

  • Watch our 90-second video of cycling across South Korea and Japan

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    Tim Moss
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    An East Asian bicycle utopia in 90-seconds. Watch our latest video from cycling across Korea, from Seoul to Busan, and through Japan. It’s below or you can see it on YouTube. Things to look out for in this month’s video: Us bivvying out in central Seoul. Successfully coordinating a high-speed high-five whilst cycling. Getting our…

  • Korea: Good cycling, great pictures

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    Korea provided some of the best cycling of our trip but it also seems to have turned up some of the best images (and I am allowed to say that because Laura takes almost all of the photos). Here are what I think are the highlights: [divide] Farmer working the fields South Korean cycle path…

  • Good Morning Vietnam!

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    Tim Moss
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    Sorry, but what else did you expect me to call this article? We landed in Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) a couple of days ago and tomorrow will set forth on our bikes once more, in the direction now of Singapore. That will take us through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia. Our six weeks…