Series
Stories told in several parts, from bike rides to book clubs. Each one reads like a short book.
Cycling to the Sahara
Spring 2012: 1,279 miles by bike from London to the Sahara, through France and post-revolution Tunisia.
28 parts · 2012
Cycling towards Syria
2016: a 3,000-mile bike ride from London following the routes of migration, reporting from the saddle.
16 parts · 2016
Cycling Round Britain (Twice)
Two rides round the coast of Britain: 4,110 miles in 2011, and again in 2022 and 2023.
35 parts · 2011
Thighs of Steel
2017–2025 with Thighs of Steel, the relay bike ride for refugee solidarity: from first joining the crew for Ljubljana to Sofia, through core-team summers riding to Athens, lockdown rides and a world record attempt, to saying goodbye.
45 parts · 2017
Sea Cycles
Group rides from London to the seaside, 2016 and 2017.
8 parts · 2016
Hitchhiking
Thumbing lifts around Britain, from London to Scotland and back.
8 parts · 2010
Walking Home for Christmas
Christmas 2010: walking 38 snowy miles from Heathrow to Cholsey.
3 parts · 2010The Polyphasic Sleep Experiment
March 2009: swapping a night's sleep for a day of short naps, and seeing what happens.
10 parts · 2009No Supermarket January
January 2011: a whole month of shopping without supermarkets.
8 parts · 2011Ten Days at Dhamma Dipa
2010: a ten-day Vipassana meditation course in Herefordshire, what I did, what I didn't, and what I made of it.
3 parts · 2010Meditations on Meditations
2017: one passage at a time from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
8 parts · 2017The Viktor Frankl 5-a-Day Book Cult
2018: reading Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning five pages a day, over 28 days.
28 parts · 2018