Tag: Cycling Around the World
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How Did You Decide What to Leave Out? (How I Wrote My Book)
My friend Kate Rawles, author of The Carbon Cycle, is in the process of writing her second book (details here). While doing so, she has been reading mine. And that prompted her to ask about my writing process: “…have finally started reading your book and am really enjoying it. It’s a very engaging, clear style.…
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The World Cup, Cycle Touring and Ramadan
As well as enjoying the drama of England’s progress through the group and knock-out stages of the World Cup, it’s also reminding me of where I was this time four years ago: cycling across Malaysia. Our time in the country did not just overlap with an international football tournament, it was also Ramadan, which made…
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Five Reasons to Cycle South Korea
North Korea is in the news a lot at the moment. I’m sure it’s a great place and, who knows, maybe it will be open to cycle tourists one day. But until then, let me sing the praises of its southern neighbour. Laura and I spent three blissful weeks cycling across South Korea as part…
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Our Video of Cycling Around the World
Today I am releasing the official video from our around-the-world cycling trip. Laura and I spent 16 months, cycling 13,000 miles through 24 different countries, filming ourselves as we went. The story is told in full in my new book, With the Sun on Our Right, and now you can see it in a short,…
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Update On My Book About Cycling Around the World
My book about cycling around the world is on track for publication in May. I first started writing it back in 2015 but have been working on it seriously for the last 18 months. I have to fit it around work but, holidays aside, I have consistently put several hours into writing the book every…
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My Next Book Will Be Published On…
Starting in the summer of 2013, Laura and I spent 16 months cycling around the world. We travelled 13,000 miles through 27 countries and 4 continents, met dozens of fascinating characters and saw all manner of things. It felt like we had enough experiences in that year and a half to fill a life time.…
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What Is The Best Thing About Cycle Touring?
At last year’s Cycle Touring Festival, we asked people: What is the best thing about cycle touring? Judging by the responses we received, as displayed in the image above, most cycle tourists are curious about the world, love meeting new people and have MASSIVE appetites. Hmmm, sounds familiar. As one attendee said: I…
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Favourite Photos from Cycling Around the World
Al Humphreys recently asked Laura and I for some favourite photos from our cycling trip for a new book he’s working on. Here’s what we sent him… P.S. I’m not sure why they’re displaying at such a small size but you can see bigger versions by clicking on them…
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“Normal life” is Full of Routines But So is Cycling Around the World (and that’s no bad thing)
This time last year I was having the time of my life, pedalling across South Korea. Now, I am back in the UK and back in a normal job. Every morning, I get up at the same time, put the kettle on, eat my breakfast, make a packed lunch and cycle to work. Every afternoon,…
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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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Deep South: Our Final Photos from Cycling Around the World
This is the last set of photographs from our round-the-world bike trip and they are some of my favourites from one of the most memorable legs of the journey: the American Deep South. Texas was our third biggest “country” with more remote stretches than anywhere else in the world that we cycled through. It’s not…
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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…