Month: November 2010


  • Helping You Get Your Bike Trip Off The Ground

    I took part in the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Explore’ convention last weekend, for the second time in the last four years. The first time I did so, I was a wide-eyed newcomer to the world of expeditions, and I remember quite powerfully the realisation that, relative to the assembled speakers and delegates, mine ranked fairly […] Continue reading →

  • Want To Plan An Expedition?

    For the budding adventurers out there — two wheeled or otherwise — you’d do a lot worse than to come along to the Explore seminar at the Royal Geographical Society in London. It lasts the whole weekend, beginning with an opening lecture on the Friday night, with lectures and workshops throughout Saturday and Sunday. Of […] Continue reading →

  • Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

    Everybody Loves A Happy Ending

    I rode into my small village in the East Midlands, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two days after cycling out of it, whooping with the recognition of every stick and stone, following Tenny on her bicycle past the park gates, round the tight bend which it was always so easy to overshoot, down the leafy […] Continue reading →