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Janapar at Raindance Film Festival 2012
September 16, 2011
Raindance, which opens in London on September 25th sets its sights firmly on independent filmmaking, and has done so for the last twenty years, to the point where it is now the biggest such film festival in the UK and, according to Variety, one of the top 50 film festivals in the world. The adventure cycling film ‘Janapar’, in which I appear, premiered at the festival.
Tags: StrapsBikepackingTouring
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Cycling the South West Coast Path
July 17, 2011
Got the train down to bournemouth and cycled along the coast path. Full story to come… I’m in Christchurch. Me and Siobhan got the train down to Poole and there was torrential rain. I was sick of at looking at the wealth on display in Poole so it was good when we got over to Studland via the ferry. The ferry clunked and clanked. In the distance was Brownsea island.
Tags: UK
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Geocache Round London
March 1, 2011
Tom and I met up for a spot of Geocaching in London. Geocaching is when someone hides something and puts the GPS location online then you go and find it. Searching round the back of this statue for the package. Reading the rolled up paper with notes from previous finders. A closer look. Adding our message to the list. Then we replaced it back where we had found it. Its good wholesome fun and gets you out of the house.
Tags: London
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Cycling to Ireland, Travels Round Northern Ireland
March 1, 2011
I’d never been to Ireland before and so Siobhan and I decided to cycle there. I’d convinced S to buy a bike for commuting in London and now I had the chance to introduce her to cycle touring. I planned a route and I got my dad to drive us to Tamworth to miss out the first bit in the midlands. Then we made our way via smaller roads through Staffordshire towns and villages into Wales, to Llangollen and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and onward to Anglesey.
Tags: Ireland
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A Good Year for Protesting in London
March 1, 2011
This year (2011) I attended a few protests against austerity, public service funding cuts, critical mass bicycle rides and others. Huge demonstrations against austerity. TUC march. Occupy outside St.Pauls.
Tags: London
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Encouraging Quotes
January 29, 2011
Bruce Parry The (King) of the Suri Tribe - We are one, we all have ten fingers, we have two eyes, we have two ears, we have one stomach, we are all one. Remember me Sherlock Holmes When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth Ice T After leaving high school, he joined the U.S. Army. He has stated he did not enjoy the experience, explaining, “I didn’t like total submission to a leader other than myself”.
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Walks around Peckham and Dulwich
January 1, 2011
My first flat in London was in Peckham, about half way along the Rye. I explored the area by bike, walking and running. I was doing a project about psychogeography and was often trying to pay attention to my emotions whilst walking about. I was also looking for whatever caught my interest in the environment and capturing it in photo stories. Tesco sign takes on an ominous feel next to the sinister looking spike-topped fencing.
Tags: UK
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Stoke Albany to London Cycle Commute
September 30, 2010
Returning back from the Mongolia trip on public transport, I arrived back into the UK via Calais. I decided to cycle back home from there. Cycling long distances for utility purposes in in the UK was not something I had considered before. However, with my cycle touring experiences, it now was normal for me to cover hundreds of miles by bicycle. I just needed to have the time. After that trip I needed to go down to London a few times and I decided, instead of taking the train, to cycle.
Tags: UK
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Lincoln's Inn Field Design Research
September 30, 2010
I had to design something for Lincoln’s Inn Field in Holborn. First we had to do a detailed multi-media observational study on the place. I went there with others in my team and we took photos. I recorded audio, conducted surveys and interviews. The goal was just to look and see what really happened there. I also conducted secondary research. My project outcome was a system for doing city walks.
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21 Observations about Mongolia - tips for the Mongolia traveller
August 19, 2010
In 2010 I did a trip to Mongolia. After travelling there by the Trans-Siberian train, I cycled 1000km across the open steppe. Having been back in England for 1.5 months now I shared some of my reflections about Mongolia. People There aren’t many people in the rural areas but you’re never far from a settlement of some kind. The people are thoroughly nonchalant on the one hand and thoroughly curious on the other regarding foreigners - they would make good poker players.
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Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure - Some thoughts in retrospect
July 1, 2010
Yesterday I cycled 140km from Dover to Central London where I now reside. I’ve had a lot of time to digest the brilliant travel experience I’ve had in the last 2 months. TODO: Photo from Andy Welch’s cycle adventures The Mongolian countryside was epic The relative shortness of the Mongolia trip compared to previous trips has not made it feel less worthwhile. On the contrary the trip has rejuvenated my interest in cycling and bike touring.
Tags: Help & AdviceMongolia
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Frozen Lakes, Mosquito infested bogs, and riding down rivers
June 18, 2010
Tom and I headed from Moron, where we had taken some days off to rest, to Hatgal which is a town on the Southern tip of lake Hovsgol. We had grown sick of pedalling across the steppe and were in search of a change of scenary. We met two Finnish and an Australian cyclist and we joined them in the evening for a meal of fresh Yak over the stove in the ger.