Category: Upcoming Events
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Tickets Now On Sale For The 2024 UK Cycle Touring Festival
Fancy a weekend-long festival of all things cycle touring and bikepacking this spring? Well, the good news is that the UK Cycle Touring Festival returns this May after a five-year COVID-induced hiatus – this time at a new venue near the shores of Coniston Water in Cumbria. Continue reading →
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Dates Now Live for the 2022 UK Cycle Touring Festival
Good news for those of us looking forward to another year of adventures in the saddle: the dates for the 2022 edition of the UK Cycle Touring Festival have just been announced! In fact, it’s already less than a month until the event kicks off on February 12th 2022. As with previous years, the schedule includes workshops on all aspects of cycle touring, storytelling sessions to get you inspired, and much more spread over the course of an 8‑day programme. This will be the third year running in which the festival will take place online, though the organisers Laura &… Continue reading →
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Last Chance to Get Tickets for The UK’s First & Best Cycle Touring Festival
The UK’s 4th annual Cycle Touring Festival is rapidly approaching – there are now less than two months to go until that weekend of cycling, camping, workshops and talks in the lovely surrounds of the Forest of Bowland AONB in Lancashire. Founded and run by my good friends and fellow world cyclists Tim & Laura Moss of TheNextChallenge.org fame, I was proud to have played a small part in organising and promoting the inaugural event back in 2015, after a fairly nonchalant chat about the idea during a picnic in Esfahan a year previously. It’s ironic that I’ve been too… Continue reading →
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The UK Cycle Touring Festival Returns For 2016! Get Your Early Bird Ticket Now
Quick version: Earlybird tickets for the 2nd UK Cycle Touring Festival are on sale! Click here to get yours. Last year’s inaugural Cycle Touring Festival turned out to be a really powerful celebration of bicycle travel, and a massively enjoyable way to spend a weekend. If you came along last time, I hope you’ll be joining us again! And if you didn’t, will you consider coming along this year? Set to return for late May bank holiday – that’s May 27th-30th – the aims of the festival are again twofold: Firstly – as mentioned – it’s a celebration of this thing… Continue reading →
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Get A Year’s Supply Of Vicarious Adventure This Month At The Adventure Travel Film Festival
Two of my favourite human beings of all time are Austin Vince and Lois Price, who have not only released some of the the best DIY travel films and books ever, but also live on a Dutch barge, which to my mind immediately puts them right up there with the very best that leftfield British society has to offer. Oh yes, the point: they also run the Adventure Travel Film Festival, which for its 5th year will be relocating to Mill Hill school in north west London, making it a heck of a lot easier for more of us to get to. It’s happening on the 14th-16th August. That’s the weekend after next!… Continue reading →
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UK Cycle Touring Festival 2015: Earlybird Tickets On Sale Now!
Heads up, folks – today we’re launching the first round of ticket sales for the UK’s first Cycle Touring Festival! Earlybird tickets are discounted, but there’s a limited quantity available, so I suggest you get in there early before word gets out. [UPDATE: Earlybird tickets are now sold out – but lots of regular priced tickets are still available!] Click here to buy your tickets → Here’s everything you’ll need to know about the event: The festival is on 1–3 May 2015 at Waddow Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire (this is the first May bank holiday weekend). Our aim is to bring together and grow the… Continue reading →
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Save The Date: 1st–3rd May 2015 for the UK’s very first Cycle Touring Festival!
If your calendar is anything like mine, you’ll already be fighting off an encroachment of frankly irritating weddings, bachelor weekends, milestone birthdays, must-visit festivals and other far-future shenanigans. How are we supposed to fit any adventures in? Can everybody stop getting married already? If you’re in or near the UK, though, the 1st–3rd May 2015 is one weekend you’ll want to put a big fat circle around right away. (Here’s a handy link to auto-add it to iCal, GCal, etc.) Because, thanks to the diligent efforts and sheer enthusiasm of these two world cyclists (welcome home, guys!), those dates will see the UK’s first ever… Continue reading →
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Inspiring, Informing & Connecting Overland Adventure Travellers: HUBB UK
I don’t normally dedicate entire blog posts to a single event, but this is one that deserves special attention. Because there aren’t many events in the UK calendar that deal specifically with the planning of long overland adventures. HUBB UK, however, is one of them. Spawned from the hugely popular Horizons Unlimited overland travel bulletin-board, and covering cycle-touring, motorcycling, 4x4-ing and other forms of overland independent transport, this is much more than a handful of lectures: it’s a full-on festival lasting four days (with camping and beer and everything), consisting of over 200 sessions of talks, demonstrations, workshops, Q&As, challenges… Continue reading →
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Touring the UK with Janapar: dates & cities
Life in the Lake District continues as usual: rainy, rural and stunning. But things are about to get rather busy as I hit the road with Janapar this month. Continue reading →
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Calling All Adventure-Loving Clubs & Societies From Gibraltar To The Urals
With six days left to go, the Kickstarter campaign is going from strength to strength. After the stressful two-year process of creating the book and the film, flying by the seat of our pants throughout, James and I are now in the slightly more comfortable position of being able stop and to look a little further ahead. Continue reading →