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  • Cycling to the Sea – Guest Blog by Anna Hughes

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    A guest blog today from Anna Hughes who was one of the speakers at the Cycle Touring Festival last month and who spent two months cycling around the coast of Britain. [divide] Cycling to the Sea – Guest Blog by Anna Hughes Cycling to the sea is my favourite kind of ‘micro-adventure’; there’s something special…

  • How Much Does it Cost to Cycle Round the World?

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      [divide] I first published this article three years ago with an extract from my book How To Cycle Around The World. I asked nine cyclists who had done big cycling trips how much it cost them. Today I am updating the article with data from one hundred and thirty one long distance cycle journeys. A vast improvement.…

  • Photography Competition Winners – 2015 Cycle Touring Festival

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    At last week’s inaugural Cycle Touring Festival, we ran a photo competition. All entries were from attendees and speakers. The competition was kindly sponsored by Pannier.cc. It’s a new  website for travelling cyclists run by Stefan Amato and well worth a look. Without further ado, here are the photos… [divide] Commended Photos Crossing the Great…

  • 16 Short Cycling Trip Ideas from the UK

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    At last weekend’s Cycle Touring Festival, Laura led an impromptu discussion about people’s favourite shorter cycling routes: the best places for a week or so’s pedalling, mostly starting from the UK or in Europe. Here’s the top 16 from the session (special thanks to Anup for typing them up for us!): Dubrovnik, Croatia to Venice, Italy Geneva,…

  • Resources from the Cycle Touring Festival

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    This weekend was the inaugural Cycle Touring Festival in Clitheroe, Lancashire. The dust has yet to settle completely but, by all accounts so far, it was a fantastic success. A wonderful weekend full of enthusiastic people coalesced around the common cause of adventure cycling. A lot of information and ideas came out of the festival. Too…

  • How to Wash on a Cycle Tour (and other questions answered)

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    Hi Tim. Clearly you have done a lot of touring and adventuring, and as a newbie to the whole thing I just have a bunch of questions I’d love to ask a veteran. If you have a little time on your hands for a little email back and forth please let me know. I’d love…

  • Around the World in 80 Tweets

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    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…

  • New eBooks Launched

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    I’m very pleased to announce that I have launched a series of new ebooks today including: How To Cross A Desert How To Cycle Around The World How To Climb An Unclimbed Mountain How To Get To The North Pole [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] [/one_half_last] They are based on chapters from my paperback ‘How to Get…

  • Cycle Touring Festival Tickets on Sale Today

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    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.

  • Why we love the desert

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    We both have a deep and abiding love of desert regions. There’s something about the harshness, the solitude, the quiet and the feeling of being in an endless, timeless land. They seem empty, until you realise the life scurrying about you, like you, fighting to survive. We’ve walked across deserts in Oman and Patagonia and…

  • The things we’ll miss about our cycling adventure

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    We recently wrote about some things we’ve missed about home since we’ve been away. The first comment we received was from Dorothee Fleck, veteran long distance cyclist, who warned us not to be too anxious to get home. She pointed out that, once home, she missed things about being on the road far more. This…

  • 37 Round-the-World Cyclists Share Their Kit Lists

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    We’ve compiled kit lists from 37 different long distance cycle tourers and put them all in one place: here. The cyclists all come from the Database of Long Distance Cycle Journeys (LDCJ)* . Of the 139 trips registered, 37 of them have detailed kit lists available online and they’re all listed below. I’m sure you’re…