Tag Archives: Georgia

The Long Road Back To Yerevan

By Tom | Published: July 13, 2010
Com­ing home meant two things: a very long jour­ney by pub­lic trans­port, and lug­ging an unwieldy col­lec­tion of funny-shaped bags and bits of metal through a vari­ety of cit­ies in the sum­mer heat. Choos­ing to travel exclus­ively by land meant that the excur­sion was really much more than just a bike ride in Mon­go­lia. It was [...]
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Rain, Train and Pain — Yerevan to Sochi

By Tom | Published: May 18, 2010
Her famil­iar, tear­ful, smil­ing face was framed by the tin­ted win­dow, then a sil­hou­ette, reced­ing; finally she joined the flecked shapes sway­ing within the depart­ing bus as it began its 24-hour jour­ney to Tehran. I put my hands in my pock­ets and trudged towards the sub­way. For the next few days I would put loneli­ness [...]
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Company For Christmas In The Caucasus

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
It’s Decem­ber and the mer­cury is drop­ping fast. This week I exper­i­enced my first morn­ing run in the fall­ing snow, crunch­ing quietly in the pre-dawn blue around the faded grandeur of Vic­tory Park and its empty dilap­id­ated walk­ways, crum­bling statues and rusty fair­ground rides. The onset of winter took me back a couple of years [...]
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What Happened When I Tried To Organise A Bike Ride In Yerevan

By Tom | Published: November 29, 2009
Hello dear read­ers. I’m in a par­tic­u­larly frus­trated mood this even­ing. I’ve had a great day climb­ing one of Yerevan’s nearby moun­tains, trudging through snow all day and hav­ing a lovely  pic­nic on the sum­mit. When I returned home, I read a par­tic­u­larly aggrav­at­ing email, and so I wanted to share the situ­ation with you, [...]
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Now And Next For A Long-Term Bicycle Adventurer

By Tom | Published: November 6, 2009
Recently I’ve been shar­ing what I’ve learnt over the last couple of years of adven­tur­ing. As a res­ult, the blog’s read­er­ship has never been higher, and it’s great to know that people are find­ing it use­ful and enter­tain­ing — it motiv­ates me to keep writing. But if you’ve been a reader for a while, you [...]
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