Guides
What Essential Bike Maintenance is Needed for Cycle Touring?
Maintenance you aim to do will depend on the kind of conditions you’re riding in. Daily Give the bike a once-over about once a day. Check the …
How do you Prepare to Live in a Foreign City?
Moving to a foreign city - whether for work, study, lifestyle change or just for fun can be a daunting experience. However, to ensure that it reaps …
Lee Firman's Lightweight Touring Kit List
Lee Firman was the manager of the online footwear retailer “Feetus”. He contributed this article detailing his kit list following a Camino …
How do I find travel partners for a bicycle touring trip?
You might want to travel solo or with others. It can be difficult to find others who you know who are interested in doing the same kind of trip you …
What Questions Would you Ask an Explorer?
These are the questions I asked a German explorer I met in Tbilisi who was travelling by horse. Where are you from? What is your job? What trips have …
Staying Safe While Mountain Biking
When out mountain biking, nothing is more important than ensuring your safety and the safety of others around you. The truth is, mountain biking is …
What Trainers do I need Autumn 2017?
In the last couple of years I have used my Merrell Trail Glove 3 and Inov Trailroc 255 trainers and wrote long term reviews about them (linked above). …
Difficulties with providing a guiding services in Georgia
This is a positive post reflecting on some experiences of working in a team to provide tours to tourists in Georgia. Working together: Communicating …
Travel Philosophy: Tricks for the Road
On the road, you pick up a few tricks. You are more vulnerable by yourself, in an unfamiliar place and you need to be able to trust and cooperate with …
How to Write for Magazines
Excerpt from RGS Expedition Handbook 35 WRITING FOR MAGAZINES Miranda Haines 06 RGS Expedition Handbk 4/3/04 3:54 pm Page 401SELLING YOUR PIECE Mind …