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Tag: Cycling Around the World

  • Photographs from Cycling Through Georgia in Winter

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    Here are our pictures from a few weeks spent riding through Georgia over Christmas and the New Year. Click an image to view full screen and browse properly (any problem, just go here) Highlights include: Santa Claus smoking a fag on his lunch break  Breaking the 4,000 mile barrier Man (Tim) vs Food (huge khacapouri…

  • Six months of cycling

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    Laura Moss
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    We have now been on the road for six months. Here is a little snapshot of the journey so far: Distance cycled: 5,000 miles Money spent on the road: £1,625 each Countries visited: 14 Police escorts given: 1 Times stopped by the police/military: 15 (all Iran, all involving the question ‘what football team do you…

  • Why we have changed our cycling route

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    Tim Moss
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    The plan we had originally announced would follow Iran was to go north through Central Asia and the Stans then across China and down into South East Asia. This was actually our Plan B. We had initially hoped to stay south through Pakistan and into India. It’s more direct, warmer and held more interest to…

  • Update from Iran

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    Tim Moss
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    So we have made it into Iran and, as it happens, are already half way through our expensive 30-day visa (touch-wood, we may be able to extend it).We are in Qom, a holy city with a big holy shrine and – like all Iranian cities it would appear – filled with people shouting: “Hello!” “Welcome!”…

  • Watch our latest video: Winter in the Caucasus

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    Tim Moss
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    Here’s our new video from two months’ winter cycling through eastern Turkey, Georgia and Armenia. P.S. Thanks to everyone who viewed our last video: Quit Job, Cycle to Asia. We finished in the top 50 of the competition, got a free year’s membership for the video editing software and were featured on the company’s blog!…

  • Are we wasting our lives?

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    Laura Moss
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    Now, this blog post is not going to be an angst-ridden piece questioning why I crave adventure. There are way too many of those articles out there and frankly, I don’t care about your existential quest for meaning so don’t expect you to care about mine. Nor will I preach about how important it is…

  • Why two breakfasts are better than one

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    Tim Moss
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    The morning was dirt tracks, hills and pot holes. As evening encroached, the road widened and the sky turned orange as we sailed onwards under a headwind. We knew the next town could not be far away and soon its approach was signalled by the glowing yellow rectangles of inhabited buildings and by the barking…

  • Turkish hospitality

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    Laura Moss
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    We spent forty nine nights in Turkey, and used our tent on just four of them. Many of these nights indoors were impromptu acts of kindness, when we knocked on a random door at the end of a day of pedalling and were invited in to share a meal and have a warm bed for…

  • Photos of Turkey (the country, not the festive meat)

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    Tim Moss
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    Big Cycle Part 10: Turkey #2, a set on Flickr. We have been holed up in a small hostel near the Black Sea in Georgia for Christmas, with the huge mass of Turkey finally behind us. It took us 50 days to cross the country by bicycle. We had visitors from home in Istanbul, a…

  • Statistics from cycling across Europe

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    Tim Moss
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      Total distance cycled: 2748.4 miles (4,423.1km)   Daily average (whole trip): 29.8 miles (47.9km) Daily average (when cycling): 39.8 miles (64.0km) “Whole trip” includes rest days.   Countries visited: 10   Number of days: 92 of which cycling: 69 of which resting: 23   Nights camping: 52 of which wild camping: 42 of which campsites:…

  • Ten things I know about long distance cycle touring

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    Laura Moss
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    1) It’s not that difficult, and gets easier Before we left the UK, many people asked what training we were doing. Although we cycled most days in and around London, during the final few weeks before departure, training largely consisted of eating and drinking too much, watching DVDs and driving up and down the M6…

  • I hate mornings (but not for the reason you’re thinking)

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    Tim Moss
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    There’s no hiding from it. I was getting antsy. It had gone midday and we hadn’t even left the house. I hate the faff in the mornings. I hate that it takes us 90 minutes at best to get from sleeping bag to saddle and three hours nearly kills me. When I cycled alone through…