Jamie ShannonJan 5, 20176 minHanoi - 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 ShannonDec 8, 201612 minThe road through China from Mianyang. Lost in LuzhouThe 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 ShannonNov 23, 20162 minChina - an introductionI'm currently holed up in another sprawling and traffic congested Chinese city, Mianyang to be exact, after one hell of a ride from...
Jamie ShannonNov 19, 20165 minReunited with my bicycle and searching for a police permit with a man called Brian8th 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 ShannonOct 13, 20163 minKhorog. Table tennis, cheap vodka, Afghan hash and lazy daysArriving 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 ShannonSep 22, 20162 minBukhara. An unforgettable placeI 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 ShannonSep 16, 20163 minKhiva - Marvellous, majestic and magicalSilk 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 ShannonAug 31, 20164 minA town called Aktau - not the kind of place to vacationWednesday 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 ShannonAug 29, 20169 minAcross 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 ShannonAug 12, 20165 minWaiting around in Tbilisi as the days tick on by. Please give me a visaFriday 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 ShannonAug 8, 20162 minAn update from Tbilisi, GeorgiaWell 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 ShannonJul 30, 20168 minA new country at last! Enter Georgia. I finally got my potatoesI’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 ShannonJul 9, 20166 minA 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 ShannonJun 5, 20163 minNights 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 ShannonMay 19, 20163 minTallinn. 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 ShannonMay 4, 20164 minStockholm and across the Baltic to Tallinn, EstoniaI 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 ShannonApr 27, 20165 minA little of Copenhagen and onwards to Sweden. Two fat ladies in a MercedesBeing such a bicycle friendly city, I didn’t have too much trouble getting into Copenhagen. I obviously took a little detour towards the...
Jamie ShannonSep 4, 201512 minThe long journey homeAfter 6 trains through Germany, a 140km ride to Liege, 2 trains through Belgium, 1 ferry and 2 trains through England, I finally finished.
Jamie ShannonAug 15, 20158 minBack in Croatia and towards Slovenia. The land of Robin HoodSlovenia 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 ShannonAug 4, 20155 minPerugia, 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,...