Tag Archives: England

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 [...]
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How To Finance Long-Term Travelling

By Tom | Published: October 22, 2009
When I left home in 2007, it was simple. I had 700 Euros stashed in my lug­gage, a cur­rent account con­tain­ing £3700 GBP with a Visa Debit card to get at it, and a couple of emer­gency credit cards. I’d be as stingy as pos­sible, because it wasn’t much! But it was all I had, [...]
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Hitching Armenia to England — Ultralight Style

By Tom | Published: August 21, 2009
I arrived at my par­ents’ home in Eng­land nine days after I left my home in Armenia to try and hitch my way there. The trip began well, pro­gressed through a lot of self-inflicted suf­fer­ing, con­tin­ued into ill health, and ended on a happy note. I have to be hon­est — it was a lot [...]
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Have Micro-Adventures For Better Weekends

By Tom | Published: August 7, 2009
I recently came across a new meme by way of Alastair Humphreys’ blog, which I’ve been read­ing reg­u­larly since I read his great travel books while pre­par­ing for Ride Earth. The idea of a ‘micro-adventure’ strikes a very rel­ev­ant chord in this post-ride phase. City life isn’t really my thing. Noise, pol­lu­tion and a feel­ing of [...]
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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 [...]
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