Archive for the ‘Transport’ Category
Transport
A day in the life on an overland safari
Adventures, Places, Road, TransportAt the crack of dawn you are woken by a knock on your tent and a cheerful “good morning happy campers” from your overland guide as she goes about preparing breakfast on the open wood fire in the middle of your camp.
July 28, 2010
Jump on da Bixi bikes in Montreal
Environment, Road, TransportTo my great excitement my Bixi key arrived in the post last week. Bixi is the name of the public bike system here in Montreal. (Bike + taxi = Bixi.)
July 28, 2010
A night on the Caledonian Sleeper train
TransportSometimes it’s hard to summon much enthusiasm for travelling by train in your own country. The association with a frustrating and deadening commuting routine can be hard to shake
July 23, 2010
The long road back to Yerevan
Adventures, Road, TransportComing home meant two things: a very long journey by public transport, and lugging an unwieldy collection of funny-shaped bags and bits of metal through a variety of cities in the summer heat.
July 20, 2010
The Unpredictable Sea
Adventures, Personal, Sea, TransportThe livelihood of the local Vezo people is completely dependent on the sea. This is, after all, why we are here: we are providing the science to help the Vezo understand how to make the most of what their sea has to offer.
July 13, 2010
The world’s largest passenger carrying container ship
Sea, TransportThe CMA CGM Christophe Colomb can carry up to 13,300 twenty-foot equivalent containers and ten passengers. It is one of the largest container ships in the world, too big to fit through the Panama Canal.
July 9, 2010
Adventure Travelling & Racing… it’s that time again
Adventures, Road, TransportThe Mongol Rally sets off this month – a multi-week/month/year adventure into the furthest reaches of Mongolia where you put yourself (and a few friends) at the mercy of an aging car with an engine little bigger than a carton of milk.
July 9, 2010
Mongolia: The cream of adventure cycle-touring
Adventures, Road, TransportIn 2006, Andy and I took our mountain-bikes up to Inverness and spent a week riding an off-road route to Fort William, which we had put together from detailed Ordinance Survey maps.
July 8, 2010
Book review: Writer explores England by kayak
Books, Environment, Sea, TransportAs British writer David Aaronovitch points out in the introduction to his 2000 travel book/memoir, Paddling to Jerusalem, in the last few years writers have walked around England under the guise of just about every gimmick imaginable.
July 6, 2010
Off the map in Central Mongolia – A photo essay
Adventures, Road, TransportMongolia is a far more accessible place for a mountain-biking expedition than I’d imagined. Navigation has been a mixture of old techniques and new technology.
June 8, 2010
