Free Accommodation: Wild Camping (1 of 3)
Being intrepid travellers means finding a place to rest our heads is never a problem. Wild camping or…
Free Accommodation: CouchSurfing / Warm Showers (2 of 3)
CouchSurfing (and its various monikers) is perhaps the idea that will change the world. Imagine that; offering your…
Ten Top Tips for your First Bike Tour
I am currently on my second bike tour ever. There are numerous things I wish I'd known before…
22 Things (I Have Learned in the First Six Months of Cyclingabout)
1. I can go without a shower for up to three nights without feeling dirty. As disgusting as…
Blog 19: A Christmas Musical
Many of you will know about the Schengen Zone and the limitations it places on travellers from countries…
Review: Rivet Pearl Saddle (2/2)
After a few thousand kilometres and four and a half months on my bike, I feel it is…
Blog 18: Dogs in Albania
Subtitled: Dog People vs Cat People. This is the first time where I have even thought about pigeonholing…
Blog 16: Appreciation Not Apprehension, And All that is French
The view from Rozafa fortress, Shkodra. In Shkodra, after having travelled as the Alleykat member of two…
A Mostly Missing Menagerie About Mostar
(Disclaimer: this is a hotch-potch collection of experience and information we gathered while in Mostar, there is a…
Tandem Trust, Trials and Tribulations: Panic Attacks on the Bike
In compliment to Alex's article on our soon-to-be-baby, 'Tan-nay-nay the Tandem Bicycle', I would like to offer up…