PERU, 28th October – 1st November 2019 It turned out I was not very good at cycling without Dea. It had been barely an hour since we’d said our first goodbye and the 12 kilometre cycle to Margos was not…
#119: I had to try…
PERU, 26th – 28th October 2019 I had been longing for this moment for months. To cycle the quiet and tough mountain dirt roads in Peru had been a dream since we began cycling south through South America, something of…
#118: In which we return to the Andes
PERU, 11th-25th October 2019 After three rest days in Pucallpa (we really did need a rest after that last boat journey) we were finally ready to get back on our bikes, with a continuous four and a half months of…
#117: Taking the Ucayali River from Iquitos to Pucallpa
PERU, 24th September – 11th October 2019 Iquitos is the largest inland city in the world that is not accessible by road. You can only get to it by plane or by boat, or by hacking your way through the…
#116: Taking the Napo River from Coca to Iquitos
ECUADOR-PERU, 21st-24th Septemer 2019 We were down at the riverfront in plenty of time to board the first boat of our river journey. This boat was a rapido, a fast, sleek passenger ferry that would take us from Coca, where…
#115: Who knew it would rain in the rainforest?
ECUADOR, 27th August – 20th September 2019 After taking a couple of days off to give Dea’s wrist a little chance to recover, we rode the last 28 kilometres to Tumbaco. We opted to take the highway, which was in…
#114: Time for a change?
ECUADOR, 21st-26th August 2019 “I know that guy! That was Gerald!” Dea exclaimed suddenly. “Yes, I think it was,” I concurred, having noticed the long blonde hair as it passed the open door of our hotel room on its way…
#113: Into Ecuador
ECUADOR, 16th-20th August 2019 The border between Colombia and Ecuador was one of the most extraordinary we’d been through, particularly on the Ecuadorian side, where the immigration building and its surroundings had the look of a makeshift refugee camp. Everywhere…
#112: Taking on the Andean mountains
COLOMBIA, 7th-16th August 2019 We had a couple of possible escape routes from the predicament presented by my bad stomach and the limited amount of time we had left in Colombia. The first was to apply for an extension to…
#111: Issues of bikes and teeth and tummies between Pereira and Popayan and Puracé National Park
COLOMBIA, 19th July – 6th August 2019 We arrived in front of an old building covered in colorful paintings of nature and animals in the urban centre of Pereira, and a friendly English speaking woman helped us inside. What a…
#110: This is a blogpost about some things that happened to us while riding our bikes through the middle of Colombia
COLOMBIA, 9th-18th July 2019 After five days off in Guatape we got back on our bikes, me with my thumb wrapped up with plasters and a very impressively self-constructed if slightly-silly-looking red bandage to prevent disturbing the still-healing cuts. I…