Vietnam
It’s very easy to judge a country before you get there, and for Vietnam there are no prizes for guessing what I thought. Try playing James Bond’s word association game: […]
Re:Gregxit – Cycling Home from China
How will I get home again? My big aim was to reach my friends in China and I’ve now done that, so I could fly home and the trip would […]
Japan
The airport guard was trying to tell me something and he looked rather agitated, his hands whirling in some cross-linguistic mime. I thought I understood his message but I definitely […]
Riding in the Land of the Rising Sun
This is a version of an article I wrote for Arrivée, the magazine of Audax UK – The Long Distance Cyclists’ Association. It was published in the November 2018 edition […]
England to China: About a Ride
It’s taken me six and a half months to reach my destination in China. The main aim of a trip like this is always the journey itself rather than the […]
Arrival
Well, I’ve arrived. A week ago I rolled up at my friends’ flat in Guiyang city, in Guizhou province in southern China, to end the outward half of my trip. […]
South Korea
On the plane to Hong Kong I chose a South Korean spy film as the in-flight movie. It was about a Southern spy who befriended his target in the North […]
The 12 Hour – Hour by Hour
Here’s a repost of something I wrote a while back: a club magazine article about the 2012 national 12 hour TT champs, where we (Clifton CC) fielded three riders. Tough […]
Canada and Alaska
The North. My tour so far had passed through familiar ground: the trip down memory lane on the European prologue, the prairies and dustbowls of the southern US, the well-used […]
Cyclestan: A bike tour through Central Asia
Last year I went to Central Asia, on a solo bike tour around the former Soviet republics of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It was a dry run for my current […]