In March 2012, I left my home in Gloucestershire, UK, to cycle around the world. I have no idea how long this will take ...
28 May 2013
Trading London for Bishkek
Early May. Luke comes to visit. Here’s his on take on Kyrgyzstan… It’s not every day that you get to write a guest post on someone else’s blog, especially one that is as well written as this one. However, following my recent return from Kyrgyzstan I was encouraged by Will to share my experiences, so here goes: Not much more…
21 May 2013
Practical concerns on the Pamir Highway
I cycled the Pamir Highway in the middle of April 2013. This article is concerned mainly with the road from Khorog to Osh although I do make some reference to the valleys along the Afghan border, including the detour through Ishkashim. Research is key, fitness is important and luck will play a large part in whether you have a good…
14 May 2013
Eating my way through Central Asia
As a cyclist, getting enough to eat in Central Asia presents a major challenge. I’ve harked on and on about this in previous posts and so its about time I presented a bit more information about the different dishes found in this part of the world. Using a highly simplistic and unsatisfactory out-of-ten scoring system, I have tried to rank…
30 Apr 2013
Osh to Bishkek – Kyrgyz vodka, pancakes and fruity juice sachets
A rickety pancake stall ruined all chances of leaving Osh in good time. Hidden down a quiet alley in the bustling central bazaar a couple of smiling old ladies chuckled good-humouredly as Kaleb and I sat on stools wolfing down plate after plate. ‘Maybe they sell lemons here?’ – ‘they must have sugar too’ – ‘how about a coffee?’. Five…
19 Apr 2013
‘Ride of a Lifetime’
Solo, weaving steady through steep and curving valleys, crawling breathless up snowy mountain passes, pedalling one of the highest plateaus in the world and zooming weary down the other side … here’s my take on the Pamir Highway, a road widely-touted as the cyclist’s ‘ride of a lifetime’. Officially it starts in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan and city of the…
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Countries Visited (36)
- Thailand
- Laos
- Vietnam
- China
- Mongolia
- Russia
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Tajikistan
- Uzbekistan
- Turkmenistan
- Iran
- Iraq
- Georgia
- Turkey
- Greece
- Macedonia
- Albania
- Montenegro
- Bosnia
- Serbia
- Romania
- Moldova
- Ukraine
- Poland
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- Estonia
- Finland
- Sweden
- Denmark
- Germany
- The Netherlands
- Belgium
- France
- United Kingdom