northlandboy

I’m not sure exactly what it is, but for some reason I often run into random characters, who want to tell me their life story. Often they are ex-military. People seem to see what they want to see in me, and tell me things I would perhaps rather not know. I was in Lancaster, after [...]

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Every road sign seems to point to a league town around here – Wigan, St Helens, Huddersfield, Bradford, Leeds, etc. But I’ve managed to avoid them all, although it’s taken some torturous routing. I’ve lost count of the number of times I need to get the map out during the day, to work out which [...]

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33,735km, 3 years and 1 month later, and I’ve completed my first lap of the world. No big song and dance at the line though…in fact I couldn’t even get a picture right on the Meridian, as I arrived too early, and they were closed! Because of the location on a hill, you can only [...]

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After just over three years, and about 33,000km, I have…just about made it back to where I started. I’ll post more info shortly, but I’ve made it to London OK, and after a long tedious discussion with an immigration official, I was allowed into the country. But we’ll be watching you… I put the bike [...]

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