I didn’t sleep so well last night – I seemed to be dreaming a lot (no idea what about) but it was keeping me from getting some decent sleep – maybe just excited about having my bike and being able…
The happiest man in Morocco!
Somewhat surprisingly I managed to sleep last night – I had expected that my missing bike and bags would play on my mind and keep me awake, but thankfully that wasn’t to be. A hotel breakfast, then Adam and I…
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to Casablanca we go!
An early flight this morning so Adam and I had stayed over in the hotel at Heathrow to avoid an 0300 start to the day which worked out well. We dropped our bags, then my bike at the over-sized luggage…
T -10 days
It’s starting to get pretty real now! In ten days time we’ll have been in Casablanca for about 6 hours, hopefully my bike will have survived the journey and will have gone back together again properly! Even more amazing, this…
T -3 months
It’s been a busy couple of months since I was last updating things here. We spent two fantastic weeks sailing on our friends Stuart and Jane’s yacht Epicurios with our friend Lynda also on board – a truly marvellous time…
T +2 years, T -5 months
This time two years ago we were in Beijing getting ready for our first day riding tomorrow. Adam and I had had an enjoyable few days being tourist, my bike was all set up, my bags were packed and I wasn’t…
T -6 months
I’ve ridden home from work this evening and this weekend I’m doing a sportive in the New Forest – 110km which will hopefully feel like old times, but I suspect given how little riding I’ve done recently won’t be quite…
One year on
There are several of you who will be very pleased to finally (one year to the day later) get confirmation that I have in fact finished riding from Beijing to Istanbul and I’m not still lost somewhere in between (I’m thinking…
Our final riding day (stage 116)
So the day has finally come – our last day of riding to get us in to Istanbul. Lots of rain over night, and the forecast for the day isn’t exactly brilliant either, with lots of rain coming our way. Out…
The ups and downs of the penultimate day (stage 115)
Rider notes I’ll let the pictures tell most of the story, but a few additional bullet points cool and misty start to the day lots of ups and downs spent much of the day following a significant construction project really…