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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]