After my horrendous bear experience – which I’m incredibly grateful for because it’ll make a great story for my future grandchildren, even if I don’t wish to repeat it – I made my way east towards Matsumoto. I cycled mostly through cold rain, but had breaks of blue sky to enjoy the stunning Japanese alps…
Read more In the shadow of Mount Fuji with an empty bank account and a worn out bike
This is an unedited journal entry written an hour after the most bone chilling event of my life so far. It happened late last month. “I’m in the Japanese alps, the foothills, all of the autumnal colours are here. It’s the most wild place I’ve been in terms of human activity. I took a closed…
After leaving you at Hiroshima I continued east along the coast. The first night back on the road I slept on the grounds of a shrine because I couldn’t find anywhere else suitable to sleep on the crowded coastline. Very early In the morning, while changing into my cycling shorts and stark bollock naked, an…
Arriving in Japan was a bit overwhelming, I hadn’t planned anything, all I knew was that I wanted to see as much as I could without rushing. After an overnight ferry from Busan I arrived in Fukuoka, a large port city on Japan’s southern tropical island of Kyushu which is home to Nagasaki, Kumamoto and…
*I’m still trying to reach my target of raising £5,000 for CLIC Sargent and Hope and Homes for Children. If you like what you see and read, please donate* Korea: so easy and relaxing it was almost boring. Amazing food, silky smooth cycle lanes, incredible hosts, beautiful scenery. I arrived in Incheon, the old port city of South Korea,…
Read more South Korea in a nutshell: A tale of three hosts and a lot of amazing food
*I’m still trying to reach my target of raising £5,000 for CLIC Sargent and Hope and Homes for Children. If you like what you read, please donate* I left you at the Maijishan grottoes, in the south of Gansu province at a temple in the mist. From there, I continued my journey, drifting into Shanxxi province towards its capital,…
*I’m now just a boat ride away from Japan, and still trying to reach my target of raising £5,000 for CLIC Sargent and Hope and Homes for Children. If you like what you read, please donate* Where do I start? It’s been over two months and well over 2000km since my last update. I’m in…
*I’m now more than halfway to my destination, and still trying to reach my target of raising £5,000 for CLIC Sargent and Hope and Homes for Children. If you like what you read, please donate* [This post should have been released two weeks ago but after contact with a professional journalist, who gave me the…
I can’t quite believe it but I’m now in Kashgar, China, the 2000-year-old Silk Road oasis town. Getting here has given me time to pause and reflect on my time in Kyrgyzstan: my 700km ride from Bishkek to Osh, known as Kyrgyzstan’s southern capital. I stayed there for two weeks, and every morning, before breakfast,…
Before leaving Bishkek I decided that there were a few places around the lake of Issyk-Kul I really had to see. The Jeti-Ögüz gorge with the seven bulls red rock formation, the fairy tale canyon and Bokonbayevo eagle village. I managed to tick them all off the list.
Read more The Seven Bulls, a Martian landscape and a golden eagle
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