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Confessions of a Novice Cycle Tourist

By Tom | Published: August 9, 2010
So, Tenny, what are you doing today, and why are you doing it? Today? Well now I’m drink­ing my cof­fee before I start sort­ing things out, pack­ing, clean­ing the flat, cook­ing… yeah. And why are you pack­ing and sort­ing things out and clean­ing the flat?
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Moving Forward From Vanilla Cycle Touring

By Tom | Published: July 30, 2010
Five years ago, I inven­ted cycle-touring. After reject­ing back­pack­ing out-of-hand as a ful­filling post-university form of escap­ism, I even­tu­ally hit upon the idea to ride a bicycle — a bicycle! — from Eng­land, all the way to Croa­tia. The loose motiv­a­tion for this was to visit a friend, but hav­ing a cool adven­ture in exotic, [...]
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10 Strange Things Bicycle Travel Has Done To Me

By Tom | Published: April 19, 2010
It’s dif­fi­cult to notice the subtle changes that come over you dur­ing a jour­ney of dur­a­tion and dif­fi­culty, but cer­tain situ­ations have aler­ted me to them very strongly. I’ve only been trav­el­ling for a couple of years, but this must be where the curve is at its steep­est. Here are a few, both good and [...]
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The Brick Wall Of Eternal Dissatisfaction

By Tom | Published: March 4, 2010
It occurred over the fest­ive sea­son, when I had the pleas­ure of host­ing Fear­ghal and Simon in Yerevan for a very merry Christ­mas and New Year. Con­ver­sa­tion had turned to bicycle travel, as it had an annoy­ing habit of doing every few minutes. Fear­ghal and I were dis­cuss­ing motiv­a­tions for future bike trips. “It just wasn’t [...]
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Why I Can’t Live In Armenia (I’m Too British)

By Tom | Published: January 23, 2010
My life is bor­ing. My daily routine con­sists of get­ting up an hour before sun­rise, going for a run, jump­ing into (and rap­idly out of) a cold shower, hav­ing break­fast and then sit­ting down for an 8-to-12-hour stint in front of my com­puter screen. I am mak­ing web­sites for a liv­ing these days. It puts [...]
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