Category: Country Guides
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Tom’s Guide To Cycle Touring In… The Netherlands
As a student at the University of Exeter I once joined an annual fundraising event known as the Amsterdam Hitch. Travelling in pairs or groups, participants would have 24 hours to hitchhike from southwest England to the Dutch capital, spend a couple of nights ‘recovering’, then take a prearranged bus ride home. This, one of my […] 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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Coming Soon: The Cycle Touring Country Guide Series
A new blog series combining personal stories and curated links, resulting in a light-hearted inside look at what a cycle tour in each featured country might feel like, with some carefully-selected starting points for follow-up research. Continue reading →
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Is Thailand Actually The Best Cycle Touring Destination In The World?
As I write, I’m just over a month into a wonderfully unstructured bike trip in ‘the land of a thousand smiles’, a country idolised by generations of travellers as a paradise on Earth; a destination to where 35 million people journeyed last year, a million from the UK alone. I’m talking, of course, about Thailand. And […] Continue reading →
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Five Reasons To Go Cycle Touring In Armenia
Cycle touring in Armenia isn’t on many people’s to-do lists. All the better, then, for those who do turn up on their touring bikes in this tiny Caucasian nation. And since low-cost carriers such as WizzAir have launched flights to Armenia, travel costs from Europe have plummeted. Dreaming of returning and carrying out a proper adventure in […] Continue reading →