It seems fitting that on the final day of this year's Riding the Long Way Home trip that it ended up being a mix of cycling and a train...

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...

"If it wasn't for bad luck wouldn't have no luck at all" Albert King Do you ever have the feeling that you are cursed? I’m starting to...

Tomorrow I’m expecting a plague of locusts or frogs, as the gods of cycling continue to punish me for some unknown crime. Today I may as...

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...

I'm currently reading Jenny Graham's account of her record breaking solo ride around the world, "Coffee first, then the world". Apart...

This is going to disappoint the sadists among you, but today was much easier and almost incident free. I know some of you like a bit of...

No you didn't miss day 8. It was a transfer day and we spent 10 hours driving from Italy to France. Let's start with the numbers,...

Oh it's all happy smiling faces now that the week together has come to an end. In beautiful morning sunshine four of us chose to ride up...

What I really need is my own personal camera crew following me around this week. That way they would have captured my miserable looking...

How do you cope when something you have been looking forward to for ages turns out to be a disappointment? Or more specifically, when you...

Day 4 - A mixed bag The hotel receptionist was unequivocal - 'tomorrow is better. Today will be rain'. Much discussion ensued over an...

Days 1, 2 & 3 At the request of my mate Brian, I've restarted my blog to cover this year's long ride home. It's not really a long ride...

For people who love to scrutinise the details in the results, they are set out below David covered the greatest distance, spent the most...