Category Archives: Adventures

10 tips for travelling alone

When travelling alone your experiences are notably different to when you travel with company.   All on-the-road decisions are up to you and all pre-trip planning can be selfishly indulgent with no one else to negotiate or compromise with.

5 things to do in Tuscany in the fall

Autumn is my favourite season of the year. Sure the spring in Tuscany is beautiful, with the flowers, and the warm sun and the bright green fields, but autumn in Tuscany is magic.

Homeward Bound – Skipping Through Italy

I’d worked hard to fund the ride home. Never before while on the road had I felt suf­fi­ciently flush as to splash out on a fresh deli­cious pizza, or a mouth-wateringly fla­vour­some ice-cream, or a expertly-prepared cap­pu­cino on an almost-daily basis!

Thoughts from the far end of of Europe (part 2)

I wrote Part 1 of this art­icle about three years ago. I’d just crossed the south-eastern bor­der of Bul­garia. Land­scape and soci­ety was shaded with new col­ours, and the whole pan­or­ama of his­tory looked increas­ingly unfa­mil­iar

Europe from a new perspective

Tom experiences his cycling tour through Europe with his wife, Tenny

Honesty boxes

High summer sees vegetable plots across the country bursting at the seams with fresh produce, most people grow enough to furnish their own tables from time to time, but there are a handful of green-fingered wizards that have taken their patches to the next level

How to get sponsorship for your cycle tour

When planning an extended cycle tour, many people go in search of corporate sponsorship. Some come back empty-handed. Some are successful.

What it’s like to start a Blog

What better way to examine the ups and downs, the trials and tribulations of trying to break into the blogosphere than to follow the confessions of a new Blogger.

What has happened to travel?

Technology enables us to make better informed, faster decisions and hopefully saves us some money as a result, but sometimes as a traveller I wonder how this all impacts on the intrinsic value of travel.

Moving forward from vanilla cycle touring

Five years ago, I invented cycle-touring. After rejecting backpacking out-of-hand as a fulfilling post-university form of escapism