Well, apart from the shock to the system of the 6:30am start, the crappy road services again and reacquainting myself with hills, that...

You know things must be improving when I want to complain about coffee. I was going to start today's blog with a small rant about coffee...

Well, there you go. The longest ride of the trip so far, almost all on dedicated bike paths moving from Germany to the Netherlands. An...

While not exactly a cliffhanger, when I posted my blog last night I was still on the train heading towards Frankfurt hoping not to be...

WhatsApp conversation this morning. Me: This is not turning out to be the trip I planned. My mate Ieaun: Why don’t you just tell people...

Arriving in Passau and crossing the border in Germany has reminded me of the funniest thing I ever heard a German say (surprisingly they...

In the language that brought us 'schadenfreude', inevitably there must be a word in German for that feeling you have when you think you...

It's been a while eh? After what seems like years, I'm finally off on another solo long ride home. This will be my longest. If everything...

Distance 1,402km Elevation 14,376m Time 70 hours Speed Average 20kph Weight of fully laden bike 19kg...

It’s inevitable that at the end of a ride like this that I would have mixed emotions. I am happy to have finished, there’s definitely a...

I started day 12 of my ride sitting in the sun in the market square in Salisbury sipping coffee and watching the world go by. This is a...

I've got just two days and roughly 200km to go. 11 days have flown past. Well, 9 days have. The first two were tortuous and each one...

Today is always going to stick in my mind for one reason only: it was the day I rode a bike with my Dad for the first and probably only...

Well that was a proper Riding the Long Way Home day. It was physically tough enough to leave me knackered and mentally tough enough to...

Throughout this trip I've been staying in a combination of Premier Inn hotels, Airbnb's and with some friends. Last nights Airbnb,...

Today was a game of two halves: a morning spent with a new friend and the first solo kilometres of the trip this afternoon. First things...

My day 5 legs have arrived exactly on schedule. It's like I ordered them on Amazon Prime yesterday, got them out of the box and put them...

What the cycling God's can give with one hand they can take away with the other. After yesterday's excellent recovery ride, today was a...

I'm not sure how many readers of this blog are familiar with the concept of there being different types of fun, but it goes something...

I think there is a special sense of accomplishment when you complete something you were convinced that you couldn't do. By lunchtime...