If you love cycling in the mountains, keep reading; a bike tour through ‘The Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho’ could be for you. Lesotho earns its nickname because the entire country is in the mountains. The lowest point is at 1,400 metres, which makes it the country with the highest low. Predictably, it’s a tough place […]
Cycling Around the World
Australian Outback – Cycling Through the Centre
Where? Darwin to Adelaide through the Outback. When? April to October. Winter and Dry Season. Highlights? Peaceful meditative cycling, starry-sky camping, remote outback. How far? 3,000km. How long? 25 – 40 days. Longer if you take any detours. Road Quality? Nicely paved until you stray from the Stuart Highway. Traffic? Monstrous road trains and seasonal […]
The Secret to Sleeping for Free Anywhere in the World!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could sleep for free next time you go travelling? When travelling, accommodation is often your biggest expense, so if you can reduce it, imagine how much longer you can tour for! Sleeping for free doesn’t need to be unpleasant. In fact, my best travel experiences are from the crazy […]
Cycling up Sani Pass
Sani Pass connects the pleasant, rolling hills of South Africa’s ‘midlands’, with the remote, inhospitable mountains of Lesotho. This results in one of the most spectacular and iconic mountains passes in Africa. When planning my bike tour through Africa, I was urged to ride up Sani Pass; with plans to pave it, there is only […]
How Much Does it Cost to Cycle Around the World?
During my 2.5 year adventure cycling around the world, I tracked every single penny, rupee, lira and dong that I spent; I’ve added everything together, and can reveal how much it costs to cycle around the world. I set off after University, doubting whether the limited money I’d saved would last until Australia. But I […]
Cycling Across Australia 9 – More Mawson please!
The Mawson Trail I learnt long ago that ‘easy’ is not the same as ‘best’. Around the world, it is on the most challenging, poorly-paved and lesser-travelled roads, normally in the mountains, that I have had the best experiences and met the most interesting people. So, as ready as I was to reach Adelaide, thus […]
Why travelling by bike is the best way to see the world!
If you are genuinely interested in seeing the world (not just being drip-fed the tourist highlights), having an adventure, learning about yourself and about other people who live lives wildly different from your own, then there is no better way to travel than by bicycle. It doesn’t even matter if you’re a cyclist or not! […]
Cycling Across Australia 8 – The Oodnadatta Track
Jaimi and I arrived in William Creek, a ‘town’ with more planes than local residents (9 planes vs. 6 locals), which made it something of an anti-climax after 3 days of cycling through desert on the Oodnadatta Track. The pub – the centre of every Aussie outback town (the centre of the universe for the […]
Cycling Across Australia 7 – The Oodnadatta Track
The desert demands so much, and provides so little.When I was cycling the Oodnadatta Track, I decided in a melodramatic fit of frustration that this was surely the most godforsaken place in the world.It is now a few weeks since I reached Marree and finished the Oodnadatta Track, which has given me some time to […]
Cycling Across Australia 6 – Riding to Uluru
For anyone travelling through the centre of Australia, Uluru (Ayer’s Rock) will surely be one of the highlights. It is the icon of the Outback. Getting there was a detour which would add a week to my Australia crossing, but after several thousand kilometrers of nothing, a week of cycling to look at a big […]