In March 2012, I left my home in Gloucestershire, UK, to cycle around the world. I have no idea how long this will take ...
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…
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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- 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