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Using a Smartphone on an Adventure Trip

By Andy | Published: February 2, 2012
I have been wondering about the possibilities of smartphones and their use whilst travelling. Often more adventurous travelers will venture outside of areas where there is network signal and therefore the phone is no longer useful as a phone, however, it can provide other uses such as storing travel information, contacts, locations, ebooks, videos, music.
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Where I Slept Part 1

By Andy | Published: March 1, 2011
In a forest in Georgia after a rave. On a riverbed in Mongolia after pushing the bike 25km along it.
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Connoisseurship & Criticism

By Andy | Published: February 26, 2011
More than ever recently I’ve been coming across the idea of connoisseurship which is, applied to western society, about rather than owning more stuff, becoming a critic of the quality of owned things & consumables. Education involves more than gaining and exercising technical knowledge and skills. It depends on us also cultivating a kind of [...]
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Istanbul Markets

By Andy | Published: February 10, 2011
Everywhere you turn, Istanbul is a visual, auditory and olfactory feast. The waft of grilled meat, tobacco smoke, and the smell of roasting chestnuts. Children running and shouting, sellers touting their wares, men sitting, drinking tea and chain-smoking.
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Mountain biking across Mongolia mini documentary film series

By Andy | Published: January 30, 2011
Tom recently edited together this wonderful series of short films about last summer’s mountain biking across Mongolia trip. Enjoy Ride Earth in (Outer) Mongolia: Part One from Tom Allen on Vimeo. Ride Earth in (Outer) Mongolia: Part Two from Tom Allen on Vimeo. Ride Earth in (Outer) Mongolia: Part Three from Tom Allen on Vimeo. [...]
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Chapters 1-20 of my book now available for reading

By Andy | Published: January 21, 2011
I’ve now posted chapters 1 to 20 on the website Autonomy (a community of book readers). I am enjoying the process of getting feedback and comments on the book. It’s strange to have the things that I wrote in my diary come up in conversation and for me to hear other folk’s spin on my [...]
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First five chapters of my book posted for reading on Autonomy

By Andy | Published: January 5, 2011
I went through my book again over Christmas.  Slowly it’s getting closer I think but I’m still really in need of finding objective readers and getting constructive feedback. This is my first attempt at writing a book and it’s probably been the single largest, but one of the most natural feeling, creative endeavours I have [...]
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Manly Day in the Northamptonshire countryside

By Andy | Published: December 24, 2010
A couple of days ago I went with Tom over to the house of my mate Dan Martin who is an extreme athlete and adventurer planning a trip for next year where he will swim the Atlantic, cycle to Alaska, and then run to New York and then probably have a rest. You might think [...]
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Cycle Touring Panel at the RGS Explore Seminar this weekend

By Andy | Published: November 8, 2010
On Saturday 13th (this weekend) between 15.30 – 17.30, I will be sitting in on the Bicycle Expeditions Logistics workshop at RGS Explore Expedition Planning Seminar this weekend. Other delegates on the Cycle Touring Panel: Tom Allen – Ride Earth Harold Evans – Cycling the Americas Hallum Murray (Chair) – Lecturer, writer and photographer Astrid [...]
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Royal Geographical Society Explore 2010 – Expedition Planning Seminar

By Andy | Published: November 6, 2010
The annual expedition & fieldwork planning weekend is taking place at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR on Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12 – 14 November 2010. Lectures, workshops, and exhibits cover the planning and undertaking of research projects and expeditions in a variety of environments and disciplines. Over 100 leading field [...]
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Can I help you?

By Andy | Published: November 4, 2010
Recently I have met up with people who have called upon me for advice about bike touring, travel advice -and whatever else they get from me as an added bonus ;) .  I have had some positive feedback from these meetings and I have also got a lot out of them myself. I would like [...]
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Possible future adventures

By Andy | Published: November 1, 2010
I am always brewing new ideas for adventures even though recently I have become city-bound in London. I know that if I don’t capture these ideas and plan for the future they won’t come to bear, because I will have to set a date for them to happen in the future. Since I have done [...]
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Twitter, Baby Boomers, Safety Nets and Recent Tweets of note

By Andy | Published: October 30, 2010
Over the last year and a half I’ve been getting to grips with Twitter. I am interested in the technology but I find myself looking at it from the perspective of ‘how do I intuitively use it?’ and ‘how can it be of more use to me?’. I post things to Twitter that I find [...]
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Travelling by bus in Europe

By Andy | Published: October 23, 2010
I did the overland journey Georgia – England, there and back, two and a half times; about 15000km in total. Overland travel in Europe has it’s ups and downs but is generally efficient and reliable. The trains in Eastern Europe are generally well priced and run on time but some of the the older routes, [...]
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Kona produce Mongolia video trailer

By Andy | Published: October 6, 2010
I was incredibly happy to see this video created from some of the footage that Tom and I shot in Mongolia.
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