Month: April 2018
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Revolutionary Armenia: Travelling By Bicycle Through The New Republic
Until now, I feel like I’ve done a pretty bad job of telling tales of travel and adventure in the Republic of Armenia. This feels counterintuitive, as Armenia is one of the countries in which I’ve spent the most time on the road, to where I have returned most often (those who’ve seen or read […] Continue reading →
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Tom’s Guide To Cycle Touring In… England
This is #2 in an occasional series about cycle touring in each of the 50+ countries I’ve had the pleasure to ride through. I’m working my way through the list chronologically (and wishing I’d started earlier!). Read about the background to the series here. The first country I went on a big bike trip in […] Continue reading →
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Brutal Indonesia: Cycle Touring Sulawesi On Folding Bikes
This is a guest post by Marco Ferrarese. I met Marco on the road last year in Armenia and knew a fellow free spirit when I saw one. Turns out his back catalogue of adventures is fascinating, and he’s a damn fine writer too. So when I heard he was off on his first unplanned […] Continue reading →
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Tom’s Guide To Cycle Touring In… Scotland
Scotland was where it all started. Little did I know my first week-long cycle tour – an ill-advised crosscountry jaunt through the West Highlands – was going to have such a profound effect. It seemed unlikely at the time. For that week in May, Scotland did not hesitate to deliver its traditional punishments of mountains, […] Continue reading →
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About The Time I Tried To Go Bicycle Touring In Myanmar (Burma)
You know those occasional experiences you have as a traveller which are so unpredictable, so spectacularly and relentlessly off-the-charts random, that you wake up the next morning having difficulty believing what happened, that the story you remember playing out wasn’t just the hallucinogenic outgrowing of a drug someone slipped into your drink, or a particularly […] Continue reading →