by Fraser | Oct 6, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Doing, Evolving, Learning
It struck me that it’s not only when cycling that, metaphorically speaking, sometimes our wheels stop rolling. Things we normally do without a great deal of conscious effort suddenly consume our every waking moment. A problem at work escalates from an...
by Fraser | Sep 30, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
Cycling through north east India was a very different experience to that of central India. The region was connected to the mainland by a slither of land between Nepal and Bangladesh just fourteen miles wide. Separated into nine different states, each one with...
by Fraser | Sep 2, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Learning
The monsoon rain finally relented and I was itching to get back on the road. Leaving Kathmandu towards Hetauda on the brutally spectacular Tribhuvan highway on which I had arrived, brought back vivid memories of the epic cycle into Kathmandu. Reliving the journey in...
by Fraser | Aug 26, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Learning
The Road Less Travelled Armed with visas for India and Myanmar I finally left Kathmandu to continue the journey east towards Darjeeling. Never keen to travel back down roads already cycled I headed in the direction of Nagarkot, which on a clear day offers views of the...
by Fraser | Aug 8, 2014 | Cycling around the world, Evolving, Learning
One year down the road, with just over 9,000 miles on the odometer and experiences from seventeen countries forever etched in my memory, it seemed like the perfect time to take another look back at the actual route cycled, this time from Yaniklar, Turkey to Kathmandu,...
by Fraser | Aug 4, 2014 | Doing, Evolving, Learning
Arriving into Kathmandu late at night made searching for the guesthouse I had booked that bit more difficult. Thamel, the area where it was located, was a hive of activity during the day I was to learn, but pretty dark and eerie later in the evening. Hotels and...