This was 2018
Looking back at a year full of discovery, learning and experience. 2018 was a year with many highs and lows. I was ambitious in order to have a full time job and still doing a journey of a month in…
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A bicycle adventure in Campanula
“We play here every day, usually an hour or two in the afternoon. Six days a week, but not on Sundays.” Explains Jan from the Jue de Boules Association called Onderhands in Harmelen. Directly in the center of the village…
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Advice from a long distance cyclist who has been traveling the world for seven years
In this article you’ll find advice from a long distance cyclist who has been traveling the world for seven years. Nigel is 62 and has been cycling around the world for seven years now. It all started in 2011 when…
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Not too far to the left and not too far to the right
This article is written for the Wereldfietser, a Dutch magazine full of stories, interviews and travel reports about traveling by bicycle. A long way stretches in front of me. Left and right I see as far as I can forests…
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Freedom in the mountains
From out of my pocket I take a look at my smartphone to see if I’m on the right metro line. I travel from station Teatre a Shar to Tajrish in Tehran. There is a man in front of me,…
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Love and family
It has been four months since I wrote my last article. My website still shows all the white from the arctic snow photos. Not that I have been quiet or lazy the last months, designing a magazine and publishing it…
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Why I wanted to cycle in Russia
In the summer of 2015 I was in Farg’ona in Uzbekistan. I had a conversation with a lady who wanted to study in Russia. She said that the Uzbeks didn’t really like the Russian influence in their country. They were…
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The end on the North Cape
I can’t quite realize it. How normal the snow has become. How normal it is to cycle in -10 degrees celcius with the idea of that being a mild temperature. That I slept in temperatures between -25 and -30 degrees…
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Cycling the arctic in Norway [PHOTOS]
Immediately after I crossed the border I noticed that Norway is a comfortable country to cycle compared to Russia. Cars see me, they slow down and then almost hit the road barriers on the other side of the road. People…
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My last days in Russia
An icy wind is coming from my left. Snowflakes fly horizontally past me. Today I left Murmansk. I follow the M18 which goes from Murmansk to the Norwegian border. It is already getting dark. I left late and still have…
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