Category: Introduction

While we did manage a 250-mile five-day escape from the Middle East summer in 2017 to cycle a loop from Fort William around the Isle of Skye and back to Fort William, the short break felt more like a bike and gear test than the expedition we had planned. The ride did demonstrate to us…

We are not cyclists and we don’t own any lycra. The idea of cycling any further than a few miles down the road is a relatively new one, sparked only by stumbling across a copy of Mark Beaumont’s ‘The Man Who Cycled The World’ in a branch of WHSmiths one sweltering summer afternoon while living…