Category: Upcoming Events
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The Best Cycle-Tour Planning Weekend In Existence Is 11 Days Off
Is it really that time again? Really? Continue reading →
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Meetups: Plan Your Journey, And A One-Off Opportunity
In the spirit of sharing knowledge and stories and meeting up with like-minded people, I’ll be taking part in plenty of events over the next few months (hence the new calendar you’ll see in the sidebar of the site). Here are details of two during September: Continue reading →
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A Day To Move Beyond Fossil Fuels
Cycling legend Kim Nguyen, the tenacious chap behind the Ride Planet Earth bicycle journey from Australia to Copenhagen for the COP15 conference, has been hard at work since finishing his epic ride. He’s asked me to help him promote Moving Planet, a day of action on September 24th (that’s this weekend!) in support of transitioning […] Continue reading →
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Use Your Bank-Holiday Weekend To Enter A Microadventure Competition
Since returning to the UK I’ve been dabbling with the ‘microadventure’ phenomenon, which I see as a fantastic way to get my outdoor and adventure kicks in between planning bigger future projects (of which more news very soon!). Continue reading →
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Help And Get Helped With Expedition Planning This Week
If you’re lucky enough to be in or near London on Thursday April 7th, and you’re planning or have been on an adventure or two, you can’t miss this event at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG headquarters. From the organiser Alastair Humphreys: When I was planning to cycle round the world there was so […] Continue reading →
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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 →
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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 →
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Join Me On Sunday — Wherever You Are
This Sunday I’ll be dashing around the streets of Yerevan on my bike, furiously trying to film a bicycle demonstration that I’ve been organising for the last few weeks, together with a group of local cyclists, as part of the Ride Planet Earth project. Kim Ngyuen’s been cycling from Australia and is poised to arrive […] Continue reading →