Tag Archives: Belgium

Moving Pictures From The Distant Past

By Tom | Published: February 2, 2010
While I was pre­par­ing to leave Eng­land, two years and eight months ago, an ener­getic pair of film­makers called Ben and James were expend­ing rather a lot of cash and effort on shoot­ing, edit­ing and pro­mot­ing the begin­nings of a video pod­cast series. The idea was simple — pub­lish short and snappy video epis­odes of [...]
Posted in Off The Bike, Videos | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Hitching from England to Istanbul

By Tom | Published: January 25, 2009
Face­book has man­aged to almost entirely replace email as a form of elec­tronic com­mu­nic­a­tion amongst friends. While I dis­like the immense waste of human energy that is poured into it, I decided to use it to con­duct a small exper­i­ment. I would allow my Face­book friends one chance to dir­ectly affect my life in the [...]
Posted in Expedition Log | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments closed

Belgium And Beyond

By Tom | Published: July 1, 2007
We quit our jobs. We sold our clothes, pos­ses­sions, com­puters and ste­reos. We shaved our heads, said good­bye to friends and fam­il­ies, got on our bikes and cycled off one Sunday after­noon with the mother of all hangovers. We left everything we take for gran­ted behind in pur­suit of some end­less quest for intrigue and [...]
Posted in Expedition Log | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment