An Oversimplification of Last Week
Once upon a time a guy on a bicycle pedalled across Montenegro to Albania. The End.
San Marino: Just Another Tiny Country?
Exploring the 5th smallest country in the world.
How a Gypsy Flag Saved My Life
An easy way to feel safe on dangerous roads.
How To Go Insane on the Worst Road in Spain
One of my worst days cycle touring. Over 150km of unpaved, rocky, boring road continuously beside a motorway. Caution: depressing read.
Morocco on a Bicycle: Day 1
Cycling from Algeciras, Spain to Ceuta and crossing the border into Morocco on a bicycle. My first time in Morocco and outside Europe.
A Bicycle Adventure in Gibraltar
A little adventure in a little place.
Rambling Around Ronda
A 2 day cycle around Ronda. Probably the best cycle touring I’ve experienced in all of Spain, with some pretty amazing views.
Beneficio: What’s it like?
One week at an isolated village in a forest run by hippies.
Granada and the Senegalese Cave Dwellers
Getting a flavour for Granada and meeting some interesting people.
Cycling from Valencia to the South of Spain
Cycle touring from Valencia to Andalusia via Murcia. Sea, rocks… but most importantly, free tapas.
Cycling Barcelona to Valencia
Hills, beaches and wild camping from Barcelona to Valencia.
Spain to Thailand, or something.
Via Morocco and Georgia and a lot of other places too…
Cycling The Pyrenees and Andorra
The final hurdle from France to Spain.
The “Hardships” of Cycle Touring
The fact that I was in my tent was the only reason it didn’t blow all the way back to Switzerland.
From Rags to Riches (and back to rags)
A bicycle tour is what you make it. You can sleep in fancy hotels, or camp out on the beach.
An Adventure Through the Swiss Alps
Mountains, lakes and bats.
Freiburg to Fribourg
Freiburg rests at the foot of the Black Forest in the south-west of Germany. It’s a medium sized city, founded almost 900 years ago, with cycle paths strewn all over, a high student population and is supposedly one of the warmest and sunniest parts of Germany. Of course, it was raining the whole time we…
The Black Forest
A little ramble through the Black Forest in Germany.
Rhineland, Saarland and the French German Border
I found myself at the start of last week stranded in the small city of Trier in West Germany for a couple of days, near Luxembourg, until the rain finally lifted. I’d pitched my tent on a scenic hill overlooking the city, just behind a hedge, next to a church. It was so well hidden…
A Short Adventure from Holland to Germany
Near the main station in Rotterdam, nestled amongst a wall of tenement houses and pubs, lies a small, cluttered workshop. From somewhere between the jumble of bicycles, wheels and metal, appeared the only man that knew any sort of order to the apparent chaos. A busy, oil blackened hand pulled a cigarette away from a…
Living in Rotterdam
It’s actually the fourth time I’ve been here now and to the same hostel too. For the last month I’ve been working in the hostel, and I’ve had a taste at what it’s like to live here. I even managed to get out of my very first day of work after being sick in a…