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...
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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...
Jamie Shannon
- Nov 24, 2016
- 2 min
China - an introduction
I'm currently holed up in another sprawling and traffic congested Chinese city, Mianyang to be exact, after one hell of a ride from...
Jamie Shannon
- Nov 20, 2016
- 5 min
Reunited with my bicycle and searching for a police permit with a man called Brian
8th November ​ I arrived safe and well in the city of Lanzhou having survived my 42 hour train journey. In the end everything went well...
Jamie Shannon
- Oct 14, 2016
- 3 min
Khorog. Table tennis, cheap vodka, Afghan hash and lazy days
Arriving in Khorog, I felt like a broken man. I had just been through, what I believe to have been ten of the toughest, most brutal days...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 23, 2016
- 2 min
Bukhara. An unforgettable place
I enjoyed a couple of very relaxed days in Bukhara and it felt great to get off the bike. The hotel that I found as I wandered the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 17, 2016
- 3 min
Khiva - Marvellous, majestic and magical
Silk Road cities in Central Asia Khiva is a super small town and so it didn’t take me long at all to find the old historic part of the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 1, 2016
- 4 min
A town called Aktau - not the kind of place to vacation
Wednesday 1st September I made it to Kazakhstan. That’s something I was never quite sure I’d hear myself saying. What an awesome feeling....
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 30, 2016
- 9 min
Across the Caspian Sea. Give me my Uzbek visa!
Well I finally find myself aboard my rusting cargo ship crossing the Caspian Sea, and to be perfectly honest, it’s all gone worryingly...
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 13, 2016
- 5 min
Waiting around in Tbilisi as the days tick on by. Please give me a visa
Friday 12th August Eight days have now passed since I first came to Tbilisi. Time is ticking away and it feels like I’m no closer now to...
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 9, 2016
- 2 min
An update from Tbilisi, Georgia
Well I’ve been in Tbilisi, Georgia for five days now nibbling on my nails and generally sat on the edge of my seat continuously pressing...
Jamie Shannon
- Jul 31, 2016
- 8 min
A new country at last! Enter Georgia. I finally got my potatoes
I’m now in Batumi and have been for four days now. I always seem to get stuck in cities you see. I’m going to leave today and it’s a...
Jamie Shannon
- Jul 9, 2016
- 6 min
A guest post by Maria. Istanbul
"You’re still going!?“ was the question a lot of people asked me after the attacks on Atatürk Airport. I must admit that although I...
Jamie Shannon
- Jun 6, 2016
- 3 min
Nights out in Kraków but remembering to visit Auschwitz. Onto Slovakia!
Well you can’t really argue with the fact that Kraków is probably one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. It's absolutely stunning ....
Jamie Shannon
- May 20, 2016
- 3 min
Tallinn. I should really get going now. To Warsaw!
I’m finding it a little difficult to write this post after spending so long in the same place. I was supposed to stay here just ten days....
Jamie Shannon
- May 4, 2016
- 4 min
Stockholm and across the Baltic to Tallinn, Estonia
I managed to find my hostel with relative ease once I was in the centre as I had taken precautions before I had arrived; I had images...
Jamie Shannon
- Apr 28, 2016
- 5 min
A little of Copenhagen and onwards to Sweden. Two fat ladies in a Mercedes
Being such a bicycle friendly city, I didn’t have too much trouble getting into Copenhagen. I obviously took a little detour towards the...
Jamie Shannon
- Sep 5, 2015
- 12 min
The long journey home
After 6 trains through Germany, a 140km ride to Liege, 2 trains through Belgium, 1 ferry and 2 trains through England, I finally finished.
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 16, 2015
- 8 min
Back in Croatia and towards Slovenia. The land of Robin Hood
Slovenia is liberally covered in forest but nothing, I can assure you, can prepare you for it. It’s really like the lost land of Robin Hood.
Jamie Shannon
- Aug 5, 2015
- 5 min
Perugia, a party by a lake and a ramble on a vespa!
It was extremely nice to see Francesca as it had been a long time since we last met in Amsterdam. She looked like some kind of angel,...
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