Contributor: Silvia Julián González I am SIlvia J. Gonzalez. i am 54 years old and I am a long-distance cyclist, I travel alone and in self-sufficiency, and the bicycle has been in my life for a long time. I started to travel on roads in Spain, but I started traveling through Eurovelo in 2022 touring […]
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Contributor: Clement Thomas For some time now, encouraged by my readings, a cycling journey tempted me. So, in September 2022, I decided to take the plunge, embarking with my cousin. It was an initiatory voyage, spanning from the landscapes of Petite Camargue in Southern France, where I grew up, to the canals and narrow gabled
Contributor: Felipe Spina Embarking on a 42-day solo bikepacking and camping adventure around the top of New Zealand’s South Island turned out to be an incredible journey filled with unexpected challenges and breathtaking landscapes. My decision to hit the road was a spontaneous one, triggered by the impending end of my work contract and the
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Contributor: Christine Chappell I’ve always wanted to do a long cycle ride. Not just a day, but weeks or even months. Eventually I decided the time was now. I negotiated time off from grandparent duties, voluntary work, families, friends, the garden, the husband. And in my 70th year I took off for a month. I
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Contributor: Stefan Koehler When life throws unexpected curves at you, the best way to tackle them is with resilience and a sense of adventure. Here, I, Stefan, alongside my fellow traveler, Connie, an unlikely duo of seasoned and newbie bike tourers, embarked on an extraordinary journey along Denmark’s picturesque Baltic Sea Coast. Little did we
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A long, 1000+ mile cycling adventure is one of the best ways to soak yourself in the beauty of this world. But here’s the fact: biking over a thousand miles is not always easy. And many people are right when they say you can never fully prepare yourself for a ride like that. But that
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Contributor: Caroline Burrows Wilfred Owen’s World War I poetry is a passion of mine, so after discovering there were some Wilfred locations in the northwest of England, I set off on a mini cycling adventure, a Wilfred Owen odyssey. In early May, I cycled from near Blackpool, fifty miles south, to Liverpool. I headed past
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Contributor: Kanishka Poddar I am back in Thailand, but this time, I was up for one of my most random out-of-the-box vacay. I was here with no concrete plans in my mind on what to do and where to go. I started by spending a couple of days with Immu at Spinning Bear Hostel, bought
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Have you exhausted all your ideas for your next rewarding bike tour? Are you just looking for more options to add to your bucket list? Don’t worry—with the number of unbelievable possibilities out there, you’ll never run out of ideas. Look no further than these ten amazing bike tour routes that are more than worth
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Contributor: Brandon Bell I am a man in his mid-forties who has spent the last 15 years coming to terms with the environmental crisis. At this stage of life, the scale and complexity of the problem, combined with a couple of replacement body parts, led me to a mid-life crisis. What do I want to
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