The almighty engine -incredible as it is- has shrunk our world. Its invention has led to mammoth increases in food … More
Category: tour cycling
Adversity in Travel
Imagine: You’re wildcamping among trees on the outskirts of an unknown town in a foreign land. It’s 2am on a … More
Morocco to Scotland: All Good Things….
We expected our last month in Scotland to be both beautiful and tough: Beautiful, thanks to a national cycle route … More
Morocco to Scotland: Scotland..
Under normal circumstances, the prospect of cycling around coastal bluffs with inshore whitecaps and grey skies is enough to quell … More
Riding the Nivernais
Dull oppressive skies skimmed overhead as we cycled away from La Chabanne. Returning to our saddles once again we rolled … More
Euro Velo 17: and beyond
The Mediterranean has been a recurring feature for much of our trip. We‘ve crossed it (at the juncture of Europe and … More
Up, up and over: Just like Le Tour
The rip snorting southerly we had at our tails would have just about pushed us all the way to France, … More
pushing north: mediterranean style
It was easy finding our way north from Valencia: so long as we kept the Med’s shimmering water to … More
making it east: over the meseta central
It was two weeks between showers (which equates to a lot of wet wipes!) and the arid rocky landscape … More