Somewhere over the Rainbow
NZ has recently provided the most monumental changes to our journey. Continued rendezvous with friends and family, back in the unique Kiwi bosom of an English speaking country, unexpected bouts […]
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Travellers, tales & Tokyo
If harvesting stories was a past time then travelling by bike would be your compost! Our last few weeks of Japan continued to burst with mind boggling nature, from exploding mountains and […]
Nature: Unruly & Unrivalled
11th March 2011 is a day that scars the soul of Japan. An 9.0 earthquake hit their Eastern sea board generating a 25m Tsunami. Sanriku Coast felt the brunt. ‘Ria bay‘ […]
Say Halong & wave goodbye
SE Asia has been a leg of stops and starts. Broken laptops, scorching heatwaves and gigantic Delta crossings have had us at the mercy of long breaks and multiple vessels […]
Sore bums in the Cardamoms
If you like things long, hot, sweaty, fully loaded and preferably straight, then Cambodia is your place. Such roads we’ve graced in the South East have been a superb dose […]
Shedding weight & Sharing love
Christmas is a time for having it all, then having some more just because it’s there and finally coming out the other end aglow (and slightly swollen) with the excesses […]
Donkey & Horse, Thai Style!
Grace Jones is a slave to it and Gloria Estefan was damn sure we’d all get caught by it but no matter what your 80’s diva preference, life has a […]
Cráic in Ladakh
There’s a nipple on your forehead. It’s swollen and ready to burst. You’ve tried creams, ointments and deep-sea salt scrub and nothing’s shifting this whopper. You’re not surprised that people […]
A Himalayan Fairytale
Once upon a time in a land far far away cycled a princess named Briany. She enjoyed wearing lycra, always had way too much butter on her potatoes and sported […]
Pre-quake Nepal
Unfortunately Brian is still a man down so with a little time on my hands, and to lighten the mood, I thought I’d post the blog I’d written on route […]
The Adventures of Donkey & Horse 