As part of my trip in Japan I was very keen to undertake the Shikoku pilgrimage. I had wanted to do this pilgrimage ever since I had heard about it when I was living in Japan and had had it in the back of my mind to do it by bicycle ever since I had…
In Hiroshima I was staying with an old friend from back when I was an English teacher in the area. He very generously put me up for two nights and made sure I was amused while I was visiting with good food and perhaps more beer than I was now used to. On the day…
I didn’t have a lot of plans for Busan. I basically just wanted to have a rest and eat a lot. Both of which I managed to do. I also had a brief stroll along the beach but it wasn’t exactly an idyllic location for relaxation. After a couple of nights in the city it…
As long as you kept to the cycle paths in Seoul riding there was a dream as the routes they had through the city were well thought out and well maintained in general. Luckily the friend I was staying with lived very close to a canal with a cycle path running by it that intersected…
Rolling off the ferry into Qingdao I was immediately struck by how much less polluted the city seemed to be, being on the coast helps I guess. Qingdao was also a quite unusual city by Chinese standards maintaining a lot of its own individual character. Part of this character is informed by its history as…
I’d come to Tai’an with one purpose: to climb Tai Shan, considered to be China’s holiest mountain and which has been worshipped since the 11th Century BC. It has been climbed by countless emperors and other important people from Chinese history including Mao Zedong. Soon it would be honoured by my ascent, I hoped anyway,…
In Pingyao we made our way to some accommodation highly recommended by the Lonely Planet: The Harmony Guesthouse. It was OK and neither Meka or I could work out quite why the Planet was so in love with it. Still it did have pleasant albeit tiny rooms. Pingyao itself, on the other hand, was definitely…
Hello guys, Today we will talk about girl’s legs and the bit of the trip that I cycled alone. Basically all what happened to me when I was riding alone is written on my incredibly long and colourful, like “Meka’s solo adventures” as comrade Riches calls them, legs. Though it was not as bad as…
Our train arrived into Xi’an a bit later than we expected and our bikes much later as they didn’t turn up until the next day. In Xi’an the main thing we had to do was apply for renewals for our visas; we weren’t sure how this was going to go due to the amount of…
This is the third time I have written some parts of this post due to IT issues…I hope the frustration doesn’t show! The rain in Lanzhou continued into the next day after we arrived gradually petering out sometime in the afternoon. We had begun to wonder if it would ever stop… In Lanzhou we had…
Riding ROUND 