Tag Archives: Europe

Europe From A New Perspective

I think hav­ing my wife along­side me for this, the final leg of my three-year bike jour­ney through three con­tin­ents and down one aisle, is going to be a really good thing.
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On The Rails — Sochi to Ulaanbaatar

As I write, it’s 5:30am in Ulaan­baatar, the cap­ital of Mon­go­lia. Through the win­dow of my host’s flat I can see the pale orange of the morn­ing sun pick­ing out the shapes of the new indus­trial com­plexes and apart­ment blocks that are sprout­ing at great speed. After a couple of years they will be crum­bling, [...]
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Guest Blog: Raised From The Alive

For this, the first in an occa­sional series of guest blogs (they’re all the rage these days), I’d like to re-introduce an old friend, a man with whom I braved the hor­rors of West­ern and Cent­ral Europe for 10 weeks of this bicycle jour­ney… ladies and gen­tle­men, Mr. Mark Maultby! Take it away… Hello there. This [...]
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Images From Two Years On The Road

Travel offers envi­able oppor­tun­it­ies for devel­op­ing cre­at­ive skills such as pho­to­graphy. I’ve enjoyed tak­ing these shots immensely, and I hope you enjoy view­ing this whittled-down selec­tion of what I think are my best snaps of all. Only the first few pho­tos are shown here. It’s bet­ter to go and view the com­plete album on Flickr or [...]
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My Perfect Kind Of Sport

I’m on my way back to Armenia, but not in too much of a rush. This morn­ing I woke up, had break­fast and headed out with noth­ing less than an epic mountain-bike ride in mind. I climbed quiet, steep moun­tain roads through cool and fra­grant pine forests to the upper slopes of the Aus­trian Alps, near [...]
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