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Photo Story: Spain

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Sep 27, 2012 in Photo Stories | 2 comments

My route into Spain from France followed the northern coastline. Wonderfully scenic, but also incredibly hilly. Bakio beach was one of a number of stunning surf spots on this stretch close to Bilbao. It was at...

Light my fire: What cooking stove?

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Sep 27, 2012 in Gear Reviews | 12 comments

A cycle tour that involves camping usually means packing a cooking stove of some description. Choosing the right one depends partly on how much you want to spend, but also where you’re going to tour and how...

Janapar

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Sep 24, 2012 in Headlines | 0 comments

Share Tweet Janapar is an Armenian word meaning journey, and it’s the title of a film receiving its World Premiere this Friday at the Raindance Film Festival in London. Tom Allen left the UK in 2007 to cycle...

Photo Stories: France

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Sep 20, 2012 in Headlines, Photo Stories | 0 comments

I’m reliving The Big Africa Cycle. For the next 30 weeks I’ve decided to make one photo story per week for each of the 30 countries I cycled through between England and South Africa. I took many...

Gear I like: The X-mini speaker

Posted by Peter Gostelow on Sep 16, 2012 in Gear Reviews, Headlines | 4 comments

There’s a new look coming to this website soon, and here’s a new topic I plan to be making occasional posts about; gear I like. I’m starting with something small and simple. It’s not wildly...

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7 Feb

End of the road. Arriving in Cape Town (several days before this picture was taken) was a bit of an anticlimax. No fanfare or celebrations - just a stranger in another foreign place, as I had been everywhere else in Africa. That this would be the end of my long journey throu…

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2 Feb

Coasting to the coast. The last time I'd seen the Atlantic Ocean on my journey through Africa was in Cameroon, so it was a welcome sight as I turned off the main highway and descended to the coast. I wasn't far away from Cape Town, which is where this journey would end. Afte…

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27 Jan

Into South Africa. I was more nervous about entering South Africa than I have been about entering most other countries on a bicycle. Most news reports from the country focus on its high crime rates, and many people had forewarned me about how dangerous i… https://t.co/RXoY6kanHM

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