Year: 2006

355 days and 25,100kms from London, we finally got into Sydney on a lovely sunny day… When we had set off from London almost a year ago Sydney had seemed so far away – and deep in our hearts we had both wondered if we would ever make it this […]

If we had to use one word to describe Australia, it would have to be BIG. Like most Europeans, we hadn’t realised quite how big until we got here – and on our second day of cycling discovered (to our great dismay) that a black dot on a map does […]

Now on the home stretch for Sydney, the end was finally in sight! We redoubled our cycling efforts to get to Sydney in time before our visas expired. On the Sturt Highway (east-west road stretching from Adelaide to Sydney) we went through miles and miles of boring farmland and great […]

As you probably imagine we will write a book about our experiences on this trip…and hope someone will want to publish it, and hope even further that somebody will want to read it! :p As well as this blog we have been keeping a detailed diary throughout the trip, with […]

Well even the best laid plans can sometimes go belly-up… Due to rapidly dwindling finances, following a still unsettled dispute with one of our suppliers which has left us over a thousand quid out of pocket, we have reluctantly decided to postpone the Canadian leg of our trip. We are […]

After our lovely break in Adelaide we double-backed to the Barossa valley, the most renown wine region of Australia. We thought it would be rude not to pay a visit to a vineyard (or twelve) for some wine-tasting on the way! Well someone has to do it… :p After Barossa […]

On our last day in Adelaide we had a meeting with Frog Films, to do some filming for an Australian TV programme. The filming took about an hour, where we had the opportunity to talk about our trip and why we chose to do it on recumbent bicycles. Just as […]

After Clare Valley we arrived at Adelaide – the capital of South Australia. An incredibly pretty city right by the Torrens river and the sea, also known as ‘city of churches’. We thought it should also have been called the ‘city of cyclists’ – in no other city have we […]

We have been donated a full set of tyres by Schwalbe, to replace our worn old ones! They are Marathon XRs – the best touring tyres money can buy. A big thank you to Chris and Guy at Schwalbe for getting it all sorted out for us.