cycling from Darlington to...somewhere

[journal entry 05/02/2012] Got up, got out of my sleeping bag. Breakfast: coffee, porridge, a granola bar. I slept well and it was 9:30 by t...

Rishikesh isn't quite the sleepy village by the river I'd been led to expect. It's a decent-sized city, and as Goths go to Bradf...

Day three in India. Or four, possibly - I'll have to check. Delhi is a great city. I feel a bit guilty about enjoying a place which ...

5200 miles ridden so far. The route: Darlo-Northallerton-York-Beverley-Hull-ferry-Zeebrugge-Brugges-Antwerp-Maastricht-Verviers-Stadtkyll-Co...

A few people have asked me about my kit and how I organise it. Since I wanted to take an inventory here in Dubai and see if there was any we...

Bike Stuff My approach has been to choose and fit parts for reliability and simplicity, cheapness, and hopefully universality, so I can get ...

5200 miles ridden so far. The route: Darlo-Northallerton-York-Beverley-Hull-ferry-Zeebrugge-Brugges-Antwerp-Maastricht-Verviers-Stadtkyll-Co...

View Larger Map My last couple of weeks in Iran, riding down to the Persian Gulf to catch my ferry to Dubai, reminded me of the vastness of ...

View Larger Map "Hospital" is a bit dramatic, I admit. But I picked up a strain of flu which has been going around Iran, and it re...

The day I arrived at the Turkey-Iran border was the day after the UK expelled the Iranian diplomats from their London embassy, and a couple ...

Everyone I spoke to in Turkey told me not to come to Erzurum. They said it was too high and too cold. Eddie in Ankara said that in winter th...

Sometimes it's just a matter of plodding on and accumulating distance towards the next place. It's been a grey, hazy sort of day, an...

"I want to see mountains," I told someone in Antwerp in a very Bilbo Baggins-esque way. Since my route through Europe followed the...

I nearly didn't remember the fifth of November. I had thought of buying a few fireworks to mark the date, and I doubted I would have had...

I hate negotiating cities on my bike. I find it stressful and unnerving. They're all laid out differently and the traffic levels are alw...

I must have spent too long in the sun, which is still quite strong at southern latitudes. Certainly too strong and too south for a northerne...

"Federalüntergerauntenflederhafenschaften" is how the sign read, I think. Forgive my poor memory, and worse German. Felix laughed ...

Dark brooding forests and grey days and rain. I checked into a campsite and only realised my mistake when the two minibuses of insufferably ...