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It's a blog about cycle touring, why it's a great way to travel (in my humble opinion) and how to do it on the cheap. Hi, I'm Jamie and...

Cycling over Furka Pass - Swiss Alps Eventually, I came to the last village before the mountain pass. The walls of the valley looked...

French border - the Alps Cycle touring through The Black Forest Having cycled through France, I came to the Rhine where I crossed the...

Maastricht to the French border Having spent a good couple of years off the bike, It was high time for a bit of an adventure. The plan:...

I arrived back in Hanoi almost a month ago and I have been able to concentrate on getting myself settled into life here. I have no idea...

“Oh yeah across the road”, she said. Immediately I could tell from where she hailed and so… “Spreek je Nederlands?” “Ja, hoe weet je dat?”

I crossed into Laos and immediately set to work in finding somewhere to camp. It gets dark here by 18:00 and that doesn’t leave me with...

I had woken up every morning in the last few days of my stay in Hanoi feeling wretched. I didn’t feel ill in the conventional sense but...

Well yet again I have left it far too late in writing another post which leaves me sat on my balcony in Nong Khiaw, Laos with a...

Not so long ago in a place not very far from here (Laos) I found myself stood outside the Vietnamese immigration hall trying to ascertain...

Greetings from Hanoi, Vietnam. Yes I really did finally make it out of China with my sanity intact. I do believe that is the longest I...

I slept like a baby to be honest but I woke up rather early, half four to be exact which isn’t unusual given that I’m usually asleep by...

I’ve just come back from a walk to the town centre of the place I’m currently tucked up in – a town called Debao, just across the border...

The road from Mianyang With me not wanting to get caught up in the melee that was Chengdu, I decided I would take a different route which...