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STORIES SO FAR

Accounts of our adventures and the work we're creating with kindness.org

 

Introducing the Bikes

Bristol Bicycles' Burrington Tourer: click here for full spec. (Oli) Five months in this feels like an overdue post. One I've been...

Croatia Part One

(Oli)  Friday April 6th: our first day in Croatia and the night we stayed in the house of Alen Zensenovic.  We arrived in Croatia with...

Looking Back on Switzerland

(Ruth) I felt welcome in Oli’s family from the moment I first met them. Even though I had missed my train out of London and arrived...

Looking Back on France

(Ruth) 7th March: from Tobias' elegant house in Baden-Baden, Germany, we had a half day ride to Strasbourg, France. We would then rest...

Looking Back on Germany

(Oli)  Monday 26th February: we woke up in Holland and rode out on empty stomachs.  Snow floated down and settled on our gloved and...

Looking Back on Holland

(Oli) The Netherlands were tough. Short daylight hours & ice cold headwinds that chilled us from the inside as we breathed. Not what we...

Looking Back on England

(Oli) 17th Feb: we were staying at my parents’ house in South Wraxall.  They were away overnight, due to meet us a pub for lunch the next...

The Temperature of Kindness

(Ruth) For us, cycle touring means 6-8 hours on the bike most days. Sometimes we camp, other times we stay with Warmshowers' hosts and...

When Kindness leads to a Kinda Mess...

(Oli) We love meeting people on the road. Sometimes however, innocent & friendly intentions can be a huge unpredictable curveball that...

Making Friends on the Internet

(Ruth) My teenage years coincided with the birth of Facebook. Before then the internet seemed much less prevalent in our lives. No...

The Bike as an Icebreaker

(Oli) The first day the wheels of our adventure-to-come were truly in motion was leaving Ruth’s parents’ house in Bradford on Avon and...

Realities of Winter Cycle Touring

(Ruth) We’ve been on the road for a month now and have cycled just under 1000 miles. The last part of that sentence seems crazy to me but...

Harwich to Holland Headwinds

(Ruth) One of the first questions people ask on this trip is ‘how much training did you do before setting off?’ The short answer is...

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