Written on October 21, 2010
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.
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Written on September 24, 2010
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.
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Written on September 21, 2010
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!
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Written on September 7, 2010
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
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Written on August 30, 2010
Tom experiences his cycling tour through Europe with his wife, Tenny
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Written on August 28, 2010
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
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Written on August 24, 2010
When planning an extended cycle tour, many people go in search of corporate sponsorship. Some come back empty-handed. Some are successful.
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Written on August 5, 2010
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.
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Written on August 4, 2010
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.
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Written on August 1, 2010
Five years ago, I invented cycle-touring. After rejecting backpacking out-of-hand as a fulfilling post-university form of escapism
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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.
Continue Reading »
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.
Continue Reading »
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!
Continue Reading »
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
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Europe from a new perspective
Tom experiences his cycling tour through Europe with his wife, Tenny
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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