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Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure – Some thoughts in retrospect
Yesterday I cycled 140km from Dover to Central London where I now reside. I’ve had a lot of time to digest the brilliant travel experience I’ve had in the last 2 months.
The relative shortness of the Mongolia trip compared to previous trips has not made it feel less worthwhile. On the contrary the trip has [...]
Posted in Asia, Expedition Journal, Mongolia, Mountain Biking Also tagged bike touring, Mongolia, Mountain Biking, tips Leave a comment
Inspiration and ideas for how to get motivated
In light of the financial crisis and the weather and when we’re stuck inside working, I thought I would give out some ways that I motivate myself.
Posted in Constructive Ranting Also tagged awaken, determination, Energy, exercise, get things done, GTD, Ideas, information, Inspiration, Life, Motivation, organisation, read, self-helf, training, wake up 4 Comments
Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia
Tom emailed me last week and to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I decided to go to Yerevan and do it.
I went to the bus station in Ortachala in Tbilisi at 9.30 am [...]
Posted in Armenia, Asia, Expedition Journal, Mountain Biking Also tagged Andy, Armenia, biking, caldera, church, Curry, Cycling, dolma, epic, explosif, kona, Mountain Biking, Mountains, retro, snow, tom, Wild, wildnerness 4 Comments
Cycling Nepal
I left Kathmandu and cycled through the smokey diesel traffic of the suburbs up out of the valley. I was not used to the mountains but glad to be back on a gradient and off the flat.
Posted in Expedition Journal, India, Nepal Also tagged Biscuits, Botanical Gardens, Chang, Charity, Chay, Cleat Problems, Climbing, Couchsurfing, Dead Body, Delhi, Guesthouse, Himalaya, John Peel, Kathmandu, Maoists, Monkeys, Mountains, Mutton, Nepali Film, Old Men, Pan Masala, Rice, Saddhu, School, Siddharta Highway, Suburbs, Temple, Terai, Theft, Trees, Tribhuvan Highway, Valleys, Volunteering, Wild Camping 2 Comments
Indian Food
Indian food is addictive. To start with it’s like ‘curry for breakfast,lunch and dinner’ – hmmmm…. But Indian food isn’t really about just eating for the need of it. It’s an experience of taste bud adventure pretty much every meal. In fact the whole Indian experience is a bit like a macrocosm of the eating [...]
Posted in Expedition Journal, India Also tagged Acceptance, Addictive, Aloo, Aromatic, Begging, Bikaner, Breaking Preconceptions, Buffalo, Burning, Carelessness, Chappati, Childlike, Children, Chocolate Brownie, Christmas, Chutney, Concoction, Confusion, Cool, Creamy, Curry, Detoxification, Dhaal, Dirty, Disgust, Donnie Darko, Douk, Eating, Entertainment, Experience, Farting, Food, God, Gormlessness, Happiness, Helplessness, Hot, Hotels, Hunger, India, Indian Food, Jainism, Lime, Macrocosm, Mangoes, Memory, Monkeys, Mountains, Nutty, Observation, Opium, Overload, Phlegm, Pickle, Pilgrims, Police, Pungent, Radish, Rangy, Raw Onions, Rice, Richie Hawtin, Rough, Rubbish, Sabzi, Salt, Shampoo, Sleeping, Smoking, Smooth, Smugness, Soup, Sour, Spicy, Spitting, Stomach, Sunset, Tasty, Tractors, Vegetables, Visions, Washing, Waste, Whisky, Wild, Wonderment 3 Comments
Britain in Tandem – the height, width and length of Britain in 15 days