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Macedonia Bound for “AdventureNext” – What’s in store?
Riding through Montenegro on my mountain bike last year got me thinking about what other gems the Balkans could be hiding. Montenegro might be known as the hidden pearl of the Mediterranean, but it’s still popular by Balkan standards due to its 240 kilometres of seacoast and cruise crowds, which keep the modern-day merchants of medieval […]
To Kyrgyzstan and Back
I’m usually the one asking the questions and scribbling the notes so it was a new experience being interviewed for a feature article in Travel Play Live Magazine about an expedition I joined to cross Kyrgyzstan’s Talas Range by mountain bike. At first I found handing over my inner ramblings to a perfect stranger a teeny bit […]
Goodbye David Bowie: Musical Genius. Change maker. Time traveller.
I’ve struggled to string two words together today reading the tsunami of tributes to David Bowie. At the risk of sounding a bit Abba, I feel the need to join the chorus and thank him for the music… and the journey. I was ten when the Star Man first sparked my interest in music. Changes followed […]
How My Little Bike Movie Hit the Big Screen – Filmed By Bike Festival
I was having one of those whimsical “oh you never know” moments when I entered my video about mountain biking in Ethiopia into the Filmed by Bike Festival in America. I should also add that my glass was half-full with a Barossa Valley red at the time I stumbled across it, which definitely put a […]
How to avoid having to drink your own pee: Water purification explained
It’s that moment when you suck on your CamelBak tube….. it gurgles, dispenses a few bubbles on your parched tongue and suddenly you’re faced with the dilemma of dehydration or drinking your own wee. Embarrassingly, it’s happened to me several times (the running-out dilemma and thankfully not the wee-drinking) when I’ve underestimated the hot weather and […]
Wild Tracks Ethiopia – The Movie
Even if you’re not into mountain biking, I thought you might enjoy this short video I made of the expedition I joined to Ethiopia. Beyond the mountain-biking, which was some of the best I’ve ever done, it was everything I hoped it would be. A two-week adventure searching for the best single track in the Ethiopian […]
