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Tag: Cycling Around the World

  • 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…

  • Hello Ridgeback

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    The trauma of losing a close friend last week was quickly overcome with the arrival of his direct replacement. I am very pleased to announce that Laura and I have been sponsored with two new, shiny Ridgeback World Panorama touring bikes. (Pictured above freshly assembled in the living room where, sadly, it had to stay…

  • Light My Fire Adventurer of the Year 2013

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    Swedish company Light My Fire make the excellent fire steel ‘strikers’ – great pieces of kit for reliably lighting a stove in the cold and wet – but are probably better known for the ubiquitous plastic sporks you find by the tills in most outdoors shops. They also run an annual ‘Adventurer of the Year’…