New Orleans

We've made it to New Orleans. This feels like a bit of a milestone: 15 days in the saddle, 13 since the official start in St Augustine, and something over 1000 miles on the clock. We decided to check ourselves into an AirBnB on arrival here for...

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And we're off...

The last ten days have involved a whirlwind of activity to get things ready for our extended absence from normal life. We've set things up to work on auto-pilot whilst we're away and got in a few days' supply teaching to top up the coffers before Le...

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MCS to MCSUK

As a prelude to the big ride we have planned for later this autumn, we decided to test our mettle by cycling from Malvern College Switzerland to Malvern College UK. With all our belongings safely transplanted from Switzerland to the UK, we returned...

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We're back on...!

This blog has been sitting in digital purdah for eighteen months or so. COVID put paid to our original plan to cycle from Harrow Bangkok to Harrow London. Back in November 2019, I left John Standen's office with a spring in my stride having informed...

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Getting time in the saddle

This summer we've been stuck in Thailand due to COVID-19. It's been wonderful. Thailand seems to have dealt with the pandemic extremely well and so there are very few restrictions in place. The only exception to this being that tourists can't come into...

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Key learnings from the Mae Hong Son Loop

A couple of weeks ago Jo and I cycled with some colleagues from work around the Mae Hong Son loop. It was a wonderful trip - epic climbs, hair-raising descents and a near-constant parade of impossibly beautiful vistas. Our companions on this...

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Useful resources when planning a big cycle tour

Trawling through the internet I've stumbled across so many useful resources for planning a trip like ours. We are not the first to have a dream like this, and it's reassuring to hear how other people have done it. Here's a list of some of the things...

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Proposed Route

I've spent a good deal of time looking ar possible routes for our adventure. There are loads of blogs and chat forums about, it's difficult to know where to start. We more or less plan to do a reverse of the DHL Race to the RWC (but without taking in...

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Planning for a post-COVID world

It won't have escaped your notice that the world is on lockdown at the moment and that there's little prospect of the restrictions lifting any time soon. I'm starting to feel rather glad that we tendered our resignations from December this year,...

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Kit List

A good part of the fun in preparing for a trip like this is making all the preparations beforehand. I've pored over the kit taken by other long-distance cyclists - always a feature of their blogs. We've also done some big cycles before, and have...

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