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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...

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...

I'm currently holed up in another sprawling and traffic congested Chinese city, Mianyang to be exact, after one hell of a ride from...

8th November ​ I arrived safe and well in the city of Lanzhou having survived my 42 hour train journey. In the end everything went well...

Arriving in Khorog, I felt like a broken man. I had just been through, what I believe to have been ten of the toughest, most brutal days...

I enjoyed a couple of very relaxed days in Bukhara and it felt great to get off the bike. The hotel that I found as I wandered the...

Silk Road cities in Central Asia Khiva is a super small town and so it didn’t take me long at all to find the old historic part of the...

Wednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....

Well I finally find myself aboard my rusting cargo ship crossing the Caspian Sea, and to be perfectly honest, it’s all gone worryingly...

Friday 12th August Eight days have now passed since I first came to Tbilisi. Time is ticking away and it feels like I’m no closer now to...

Well I’ve been in Tbilisi, Georgia for five days now nibbling on my nails and generally sat on the edge of my seat continuously pressing...

I’m now in Batumi and have been for four days now. I always seem to get stuck in cities you see. I’m going to leave today and it’s a...

"You’re still going!?“ was the question a lot of people asked me after the attacks on Atatürk Airport. I must admit that although I...

Well you can’t really argue with the fact that Kraków is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It's absolutely stunning ....

I’m finding it a little difficult to write this post after spending so long in the same place. I was supposed to stay here just ten days....

I managed to find my hostel with relative ease once I was in the centre as I had taken precautions before I had arrived; I had images...

Being such a bicycle friendly city, I didn’t have too much trouble getting into Copenhagen. I obviously took a little detour towards the...

After 6 trains through Germany, a 140km ride to Liege, 2 trains through Belgium, 1 ferry and 2 trains through England, I finally finished.

Slovenia is liberally covered in forest but nothing, I can assure you, can prepare you for it. It’s really like the lost land of Robin Hood.

It was extremely nice to see Francesca as it had been a long time since we last met in Amsterdam. She looked like some kind of angel,...