Crossing Germany on a bike!

Wow! I can’t believe that I’ve been on the road for one month now – crazy! The time since my last blog post has been spent in Germany, a country I was really excited about for two reasons. Firstly, because it was the first new country of my trip – I’d managed to cycle somewhere […]

Goodbye Russell – cycling solo

The end of this week (since my last post) was always going to be tough. “It’s not too late to stay until Australia”, I would often joke to Russell, my travelling companion. He was insistent though… apparently, he had to get back to something called a ‘job’. Having been there from the start, I felt […]

Nearing the end of France!

Since my last update, Russell and I have continued to make steady progress through France (and even in the right direction). We’ve found our way through France’s second largest forest (and it is huge), we’ve climbed a few big hills (and deliberated on when a hill becomes a mountain), we’ve navigated our way into Besançon […]

A life on the road – North France

By the time it came to leave for my cycle on Sunday, the huge turnout of friends and family to my party the night before had made it rather more difficult to leave. I’m not talking about the huge lack of sleep, although that was certainly a factor. But, what incredible people I was leaving […]