This is the largest landlocked country and the ninth largest on the planet. Each time I visited, I was able to explore a new region as it was just a short journey from our home in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It's not as central Asian as Uzbekistan, more Russian in feel, but...

Considering my Mum lived in Japan for over a decade, I really didn't cycle much here. I’ve visited three times and enjoyed each one a great deal, but each time that we ventured away from her home city of Tokyo we did so by some other form of transport, my favourite; th...

This chapter is very much work-in-progress. Having just married into an outdoor-sporty Irish family, I am sure that my knowledge and the subsequent stories of cycling in Ireland will grow.

In the various visits I have made to Ireland thus far, I have already built up a...

Writing about this collection of 17,508 islands is going to have to be a generalisation. I am sure that many of the islands vary immensely from others, from idyllic mounds of sand in the sea, to slimy backstreets coated in the bi-products of modern day living. This sli...

Travelling in India is intoxicating in many ways and totally addictive. The food and the people will keep me coming back again, but this account of an event which took place towards the end of my first extended trip abroad on my own, was one of the most heart-in-mouth...

We were nearing the end of our summer stage cycling across ten countries in Europe when we entered Greece at the Dojran lakeside border with Macedonia, or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as Greeks know it.

There were two goals...

Ghana seemed like a logical place to visit on a half-term break, so I threw my mountain bike in the back of my red 4X4 and drove from Lomé, the capital of Togo, my home at the time, to the border within 15 minutes.

I was once again reminded how travelling with...

I have ridden in Germany as a school-kid and as a teacher, which is a nice full-circle thought. In addition, i've seen much of the country on holidays, professional development courses and by 4-wheels. From Hanover, Hildesheim and Berlin in the north, to Munich, Füssen...

I will need another visit to Georgia to understand what it is. For the week or so that I was there I noticed that it was a melting-pot of cultures; Russian, Turkik and yet also very European. 

Cycling through the country was challenging due to road conditions as t...

France is of course just a a short-hop from the south of England, so as a kid I cycled many slices of the country. Sometimes on school-trips, other times on holiday and once around the suburbs of Paris whilst playing in a Rugby tournament. The land has always felt very...