The Kit Post: How much stuff did I break?
On a a world bike tour, pretty much anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at some point or other. I’ve been asked loads of times what kit I […]
On a a world bike tour, pretty much anything that can go wrong, will go wrong at some point or other. I’ve been asked loads of times what kit I […]
Favourite places, moments, equipment and experiences from a year cycling around the world.
Returning from a ride around the world, to find beauty where I started
Whither xenophobia? Crossing Central Europe chased by white van man
From fiction to history, books to keep my head together on a round the world bike ride
Riding through the former-soviet states on Europe’s far eastern frontier
Romania was a rare thing on this trip: a country I’d visited before. I was here in 2014, when I rode diagonally across the country from the capital Bucharest […]
On my wall at home hangs a picture. Two cyclists disappear into an indigo-black sky, watched over by an owl in a tree as the night enfolds them, the world […]
The Caucasus – the band of mountains between the Caspian and the Black Sea, marked the start of Europe – or did it? Wasn’t it some sort of American political […]
Writing a post about Central Asia is one of those nice problems to have: you’re never sure what to leave out. Mountains, deserts, Silk Road cities, shepherds in yurts, slave […]