A new look A Fish Out Of Water
It's a blog about cycle touring, why it's a great way to travel (in my humble opinion) and how to do it on the cheap. Hi, I'm Jamie and...
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Jamie Shannon
- Sep 15, 2020
- 5 min
Maastricht to Munich - Across the Alps and onto Munich
Cycling over Furka Pass - Swiss Alps Eventually, I came to the last village before the mountain pass. The walls of the valley looked...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Maastricht to Munich -Schwarzwald and crossing the Alps
French border - the Alps Cycle touring through The Black Forest Having cycled through France, I came to the Rhine where I crossed the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
Maastricht to Munich - Cycling eight countries in 23 days
Maastricht to the French border Having spent a good couple of years off the bike, It was high time for a bit of an adventure. The plan:...
Jamie Shannon
- Apr 18, 2017
- 0 min
Jamie Shannon
- Feb 7, 2017
- 12 min
Luang Prabang to Hanoi. Yet more extraordinary coincidences. The end is nigh
I arrived back in Hanoi almost a month ago and I have been able to concentrate on getting myself settled into life here. I have no idea...
Jamie Shannon
- Jan 27, 2017
- 9 min
Civilisation at last! Lazy days in Nong khiaw, Laos and meeting a kindred spirit
“Oh yeah across the road”, she said.
Immediately I could tell from where she hailed and so…
“Spreek je Nederlands?”
“Ja, hoe weet je dat?”
Jamie Shannon
- Jan 17, 2017
- 11 min
Cycling up and down in Laos and meeting strange ladies of the night
I crossed into Laos and immediately set to work in finding somewhere to camp. It gets dark here by 18:00 and that doesn’t leave me with...
Jamie Shannon
- Jan 14, 2017
- 11 min
Gotta get out of Vietnam quickly! Desperate times call for....
I had woken up every morning in the last few days of my stay in Hanoi feeling wretched. I didn’t feel ill in the conventional sense but...
Jamie Shannon
- Jan 6, 2017
- 6 min
Hanoi - What to do? I'm running out of money fast!
Well yet again I have left it far too late in writing another post which leaves me sat on my balcony in Nong Khiaw, Laos with a...
Jamie Shannon
- Jan 1, 2017
- 10 min
Crossing into South East Asia at long last. Western food is back on the menu!
Not so long ago in a place not very far from here (Laos) I found myself stood outside the Vietnamese immigration hall trying to ascertain...
Jamie Shannon
- Dec 21, 2016
- 10 min
Guangxi. Leaving China behind and trying to exit through the wrong border
Greetings from Hanoi, Vietnam. Yes I really did finally make it out of China with my sanity intact. I do believe that is the longest I...
Jamie Shannon
- Dec 11, 2016
- 6 min
I can't afford a Hospital! Don't worry, our leader pays for you
I slept like a baby to be honest but I woke up rather early, half four to be exact which isn’t unusual given that I’m usually asleep by...
Jamie Shannon
- Dec 10, 2016
- 13 min
Guizhou province. Every day seems a real struggle now. Difficult days in China
I’ve just come back from a walk to the town centre of the place I’m currently tucked up in – a town called Debao, just across the border...
Jamie Shannon
- Dec 9, 2016
- 12 min
The road through China from Mianyang. Lost in Luzhou
The road from Mianyang With me not wanting to get caught up in the melee that was Chengdu, I decided I would take a different route which...
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