In June 2007 I left England for an open-ended adventure. I cycled across Europe to the Caucasus, taking shelter in Georgia over the winter. In the summer of 08 I travelled back to the UK, to get a Pakistan visa, returning back to Georgia on public transport and set off by bike to India and Nepal through Iran and Pakistan. In April 2009 I returned to Georgia, to live, where I helped to develop a mountain bike guiding service called Georiders. I developed my interests in Design, built a website for an open source mapping project, made some talks about my travel and helped to organise bicycle events.
I’m back in the UK for the moment. I’m editing my first book about the adventure from England to the Caucasus.
This year, I’m planning cycle tours to Scandinavia and Northern Africa. In the next few years, I hope to travel to the Far East, on the Trans-Siberian railway, write a second book, help to develop a network for cycle travellers, and continue to keep my footprint on the planet as low as possible.
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Latest Blog: Travelling back from Georgia for Christmas January 22, 2010
I travelled back to the UK from Georgia at Christmas to spend it with my family by public transport and it was an adventure of it’s own. I wanted to take public transport to avoid the general boredom, financial and emissions cost of taking a plane.
The bus from Tbilisi to Thessalonika was a long distance parcel service which seemed to go on a tour of obscure Georgian towns, spending up to 30 mins in each, picking up hillocks sized piles of parcels and shoveling them into the back of the bus. I helped stack them on partly to try to speed up the process and partly for the novelty experience. All the parcels were stacked up behind me in the bus so when we got moving again I had to stop the precarious Jenga towers of parcels from falling on me and my bike. Read More
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