A Collection of Tales from the Road #1- Albania

1. Albania Entering from the south western corner at the coastal border with Montenegro, Niamh and I pedalled inland through dried earth,...

A Collection of Tales from the Road - Introduction

In this series of blog posts, I will record and share some stories of a rather long bicycle ride of 40,100 kilometres through 60...

Bicycle Touring Clothes Packing List : Central Asia and China

It has been a full year since we headed out on the Central Asian section of our ride around the world and we still haven't finished our...

Bicycle Trails of the US Mid-West

As we cycled across Asia last year we often day-dreamed of traffic free routes and cycling alongside each other, chatting or enjoying...

Pedalgogy in the USA

Hello from the US of A! Couldn't have asked for a better start to the North American leg of our ride around the world. Hosted by our...

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As bicycle tourers, we have often arrived in a big city with only 1 day or even a few hours to stretch the legs and see the sights before...

ONE YEAR ON THE ROAD

We are now half way through our ride around the world. Since leaving our teaching jobs at Tashkent International School, we have cycled...

THE GOOD PEOPLE WE MEET

A commonly used adage is "The less one has to give, the more generous they are’". This may presume that material possessions are a gauge...

BIKE TOURING GEAR PACKING LIST - CENTRAL ASIA AND CHINA

We started our ride around the world in June 2017 in Uzbekistan, where we were living, and pedalled east through Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan...

A SIMPLE REVIEW OF OUR BICYCLES

This is not a geeky review of bicycles. This is a basic summary of how they have performed after 10's of thousands of kilometres. I think...

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