Category: Just For Fun
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‘Janapar: The Game’ Is Now Available. Download It For Free Today!
For the last few weeks I’ve been putting the finishing touches to a project I’ve been working on for many years – and with so many of us in isolation and looking for things to do, the timing could not be better! Yes, that’s right – the story of my award-winning documentary Janapar: Love on […] Continue reading →
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3 More Big Bike Trips (& 1 Microadventure) You Can Read For Free On This Blog
Happy New Year! Some more holiday reading material for you today, particularly if you’ve enjoyed reading the free serialisation of my first book Janapar. Blogging from the road is something I’ve done since the beginning of my travels. The stories that follow have been written and published from the road itself over several years of bicycle […] Continue reading →
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Starting Next Week, Janapar Will Be Serialised For Free On This ‘Ere Blog
It’s really quite lovely being a self-published author. I can do absolutely anything I like with the words that have emanated from my fingertips, without restriction from contractual obligations to publishers or agents, without the pressure to squeeze sales out of my readers in the hope of a royalty cheque that’ll do more than just […] Continue reading →
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Introducing A New Range Of Limited-Edition ‘Janapar’ Merchandise
Today, I’d like to take a break from Iran and Patagonia to talk again about Janapar, my previous adventure film and book project, with which which some of you may be (for me) uncomfortably familiar. It’s been more than two years since James and I released the film to the world on DVD and as […] Continue reading →
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And the winner is…
Well! This competition has been something of a revelation. Mainly in terms of the sheer variety of trip ideas submitted. Who’d have thought that there were folk out there planning to tour the breweries of the world, explore countries while researching historical-mythological novels, use bike touring to find a new home, and string lectures along […] Continue reading →
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Coolest adventure plan gets a free touring bike & gear. One week to enter!
Over the last few weeks I’ve been blogging about my biggest challenge yet. It has nothing to do with distance, speed, mileage, or any other kind of challenge we traditionally construct for ourselves. No; the challenge was to cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats without any money whatsoever. What I hoped to achieve was an […] Continue reading →
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5 Dream Trips I’d Take This Year If Time & Money Were No Object
For the first time in my adult life I have more or less definite plans for the next 12 months. Almost all of them revolve around adventures, creative storytelling, and sharing knowledge, so I can’t complain. Perhaps it’s in response to the existential tyranny of ‘future planning’, though, that I often find myself daydreaming about […] Continue reading →
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How To Keep An Irish Cyclist Happy At Christmas Time
As any cycle-tourist will tell you, feeding a cycle tourist is no easy task. The demands of a stomach that processes a minimum of 5,000 calories per day must not be underestimated — indeed, such needs can often be a source of great embarassment for the hungry cyclist when invited in at the end of […] Continue reading →