Come sing along with me ...
There's a hole in the pannier, dear Peli, dear Peli,
There's a hole in the pannier, dear Peli, dear Peli,
Then fix it, dear woolly, dear woolly, dear woolly,
Then fix it, dear woolly, dear woolly, fix it.
So, I did!
I have been using one of the Ortlieb Bike-...
Denmark, where the wind is our mountains.
Denmark, along with Holland, is probably the country you hear about first when you start to talk about cycling. If you are thinking about doing a cycle tour or going somewhere to test out your cycling legs, you can't go wrong with Denmark: plenty of cycle...
A cycle tourer or traveller is easy to spot, you know when you have spotted a kindred spirit. They walk in a more relaxed, unrushed way and carry themselves without a burden, unless you're talking about their backpack or overloaded touring bicycles. Simplicity and multi functional clothing have take...
With more and more gadget you have, it is getting somewhat harder to keep them all charged while touring or on holiday. We have a camera, GPS, mobile phone, lights and sometimes a laptop that needs power, which means quite a few different chargers to drag along.
Depending on the gadget, how much y...
This is a special thank you post. You could call it our ‘Oscars’ though there is no order or ranking in this list. I’m sure I will forget someone, so thank you to everyone who helped in our tour in one way or another.
Fi and Chris, Melbourne: You were our first guides on our tour and your hospital...
So I'm sitting on the train to Cardiff, Wales. I just managed to get on the train after a mad dash across town. I left home with plenty of time to spare and pootled across town, hey it is a beautiful day in the smog.
Then it hit me, the map the f#beep#ing map. Yes we are armed with two good mobile...
Last Tuesday I went and had a little meet up with other bicycle touring mad people, some clearly madder than me, just. Alastair Humphrey's came up with the idea of a bicycle tourist meet up. We took over the top of the pub and had a good old natter, oh and a few beers was drunk.
It was great to m...
I was reading The Travelling Two website tonight as fell over a post there, Alastair Humphreys is planing a meet up for bike tourist, March 9th.
I thought that it may be helpful, now that I have done a few trips, to arrange an evening in a pub when I can try to help other people who are plan...
Over on CNN's AC360 blog Chris Guillebeau writes about things that he wish the had know before he started travelling.
I too have learned the hard way while cycle touring and on my other travels. Some of the 28 things that Chris talks about rings a bell, all very good advice even for a seasoned...
This is taken from our recent week long cycling holiday in Croatia where we cycled on the Adriatic coast from Dubrovnik to Trogir just north of Split.
I'm writing this up mainly to tell you about my experience because I have read many other people's write ups about Croatia. And all have...
Our last day of our holiday started nice and slow, with a good breakfast and tea and some basic chilling out.
We went over to the local bike shop, Webike, to pick up some empty bike boxes to pack our bikes in.
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Last minute sn...
... hills, cream teas, and more hills.
We took off from the big smog Monday the 19th heading towards Buckfastleigh in Devon via Newton Abbot. We went in search of a few miles of road, cream teas and a generally relaxing time.
We arrived at the train station around 1pm and had 9'ish miles t...
Tour de hotdog
OK, so it's my turn to do a write-up of my first cycling holiday. Hmm. I'm 37 years old and come from very flat cycling country... Why haven't I done this before?? I managed to talk my friend Paul (Paul) into joining me on the journey from pretty much the top of Denmark over to Cope...
