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The mileage of smileage

What a cracker of a first week in Colombia. The past 6 days has seen me travel from the glorious walled city of Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast to its antithesis, the modern skyscraped metropolis of Medellín, nestled in the northern Andes. As my good cycling friend Urs would say, “this can only bring about more »
All aboard for South America

It’s finally here: land of the Andes, great salt lakes, majestic colonial cities, mountaintop empires, rain-soaked gravel roads, Patagonian pampas and El Fin del Mundo. I haven’t been as excited in a long, long time for a single stretch of land. South America might just be incredible! 5 days on a sailboat rounding the Darién more »
Forwards and Backwards

It’s been an interesting first week back on the bicycle to say the least. After a month’s break from cycle touring to swan around in Tajikistan I didn’t expect it to be as tough to get going again. Subsequently I’ve found myself asking some questions that hadn’t yet reared their ugly heads on the journey more »
Time Flies in Tajikistan

‘Time flies’ has never applied to reality so much as in the past 3 weeks for me. I’ve arrived in Alajuela, a small town on the outskirts of Costa Rica’s capital San Jose, 18 days after leaving the same spot for Tajikistan to visit my girlfriend Áine. Getting moving again already seems like it could more »