Archive - Hey, wait for me! 🚲

Well here we are; sitting waiting for a flight back from New Zealand to Scotland. The tent has been rolled up for one last time, the bicycles are boxed…

Nov 30, 2022 •

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October 2022

A short update to share that we made it! We’ve cycled from Scotland to New Zealand without getting detained, kidnapped or run over (although the…

Oct 23, 2022 •

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Meeting blokes and Shielas in ‘Stralia

G’day from Sydney, Australia! Good on ya’ for having a Captain Cook of our substack. As you can tell, we are seamlessly blending in with the locals over…

Oct 17, 2022 •

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September 2022

The last four words we wanted to hear from a police chief

We were squashed together on a small green sofa in the police chief’s office; he was sat opposite us wearing an open collar shirt with tufts of chest…

Sep 27, 2022 •

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Cyclist in Malaysia

Alright, it’s time for us to hold our sun-beaten hands in the air. For the past few months we’ve been planning a secret trip back to the UK. Harriet’s…

Sep 11, 2022 •

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August 2022

Are they chanting ‘death to the cyclists’??

It was 4am in rural Thailand, both our eyes shot open, our bodies went stiff. Low chanting voices had encircled the tent creating a cacophony of noise…

Aug 16, 2022 •

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July 2022

Jungle life in Nepal

“No, you cannot cycle on this road” said the Nepalese guard at the national park checkpoint. One of his hands gripped his assault rifle as if we were…

Jul 30, 2022 •

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The reason India invented yoga

Firstly, namaste from India 🙏 ‘Fail to prepare and prepare to fail’; that’s what a 16 year old Matt learnt after failing his Higher Latin exam at…

Jul 13, 2022 •

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June 2022

Breathtaking cycling

“This…is…simply…breathtaking”, Matt gasped as he looked at the snow capped Kyrgyz mountains that surrounded us. Harriet was slumped over her handlebars…

Jun 26, 2022 •

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What just happened?

Ok, we’ll come clean. We’ve been cycling in the Kazakh and Uzbek deserts for two weeks and we can’t remember very much about it. It’s probably heat…

Jun 10, 2022 •

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May 2022

Talking out of his assphalt

Top travel tip: ask locals for recommendations to find unforgettable cycle routes. Let us introduce Giorgi (not his real name). We met Giorgi at a…

May 24, 2022 •

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This is a hold up!

Maybe it was only a matter of time, but this week we found ourselves in the back of a police van staring at our feet. As the police van hurtled along…

May 10, 2022 •

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