Travel-Reports
Soviet Mattress Suspension and Ulaan Baatar
Tom and I are now in Ulaan Baatar. The bus journey here was arduous. We expected it to take around seven hours but it took the entire day. However, …
Taking the Trans Siberian Train to Go Mountain biking in Mongolia
I travelled by bus (Eurolines and Ecolines) from London to Moscow. Tom came from Yerevan on trains and buses and took the ferry from Trabzon (Turkey) …
Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia
Tom emailed me last week to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I …
Bicycle Critical Mass Tbilisi To Protest Dangerously High Levels of CO2
On 24th October cyclists, walkers and skaters gathered outside the Philharmonia theatre in Tbilisi to parade down Rustaveli as part of Climate Week …
Weddings, unlike lightning, strike in the same place twice...
I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening drinking wine with two German …
DJing at Raves in Georgia and other Updates from Tbilisi
I got the bus back to Tbilisi. I arrived back and realised that I’d had such a good time and also realised a few things through my experience …
Tom's Wedding in Yerevan
Tom’s wedding happened on the 19th September. I went off to Yerevan on the 15th in the hair-raising Marshrutka (minibus). Continuing the theme …
Staying with a Stone Mason in Yazd and Seeing Zurkhaneh on the Way to the Pakistan Border
After Isfahan the landscape between the big cities was bare and remote but the roads were extremely good quality. I choose to take the highway because …
Crossing the border into Iran and sleeping on the roof in Tehran
At Agarak on the Armenian-Iranian border, I remember cycling next to the border fence. I felt scared continuing over the river bridge to the border …
Cycling On From Tehran Alone and Staying With a Family
The ride out of Tehran was a leap into the unknown for me. I had been killing myself worrying about the crossing from Iran to Pakistan and the …