Twenty years
2005 to 2026, a year at a time: the journeys, the projects, the turning points, and the stories written along the way.
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2005
2 blog posts
- The first post Travel expenses from a trip to Spain and Morocco: the blog begins.
2006
2 blog posts
2007
4 blog posts
2008
2 blog posts
2009
27 blog posts
- The Polyphasic Sleep Experiment March 2009: swapping a night's sleep for a day of short naps, and seeing what happens. 10 parts
2010
92 blog posts
- No more aeroplanes Gave up flying for slow travel, “for the simple reason that air travel stunts my imagination”.
- Two decisions An internship at Amnesty International and a place at Sanford housing cooperative set the course for the decade: writing, volunteering and travel.
- Hitchhiking Thumbing lifts around Britain, from London to Scotland and back. 8 parts
- Ten 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
- Walking Home for Christmas Christmas 2010: walking 38 snowy miles from Heathrow to Cholsey. 3 parts
2011
93 blog posts
- No Supermarket January January 2011: a whole month of shopping without supermarkets. 8 parts
- Cycling Round Britain (Twice) Two rides round the coast of Britain: 4,110 miles in 2011, and again in 2022 and 2023. 35 parts
2012
41 blog posts
- Cycling to the Sahara Spring 2012: 1,279 miles by bike from London to the Sahara, through France and post-revolution Tunisia. 28 parts
- The Soles of My Shoes is published A hitch-hiking tale of London to Ben Nevis, released as a paperback, an ebook and 152 blog episodes: Slow Publishing.
2013
13 blog posts
2014
18 blog posts · 7 newsletter issues
- The newsletter begins The first monthly email newsletter goes out. It goes weekly in 2017 and is still going every Friday.
- Elevate #10 A book of creative responses to a world in crisis, pay what you want.
2015
75 blog posts · 18 newsletter issues
2016
39 blog posts · 12 newsletter issues
- Sea Cycles Group rides from London to the seaside, 2016 and 2017. 8 parts
- Cycling towards Syria 2016: a 3,000-mile bike ride from London following the routes of migration, reporting from the saddle. 16 parts
- Foiled at the Edinburgh Fringe The hair salon sitcom, co-written with Beth Granville, gets a five-star run at the Fringe.
2017
34 blog posts · 45 newsletter issues
- Foiled on BBC Radio Wales Three radio series from 2017 to 2019, with guest stars including Miles Jupp, Ralf Little and Sir Derek Jacobi.
- 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
- Meditations on Meditations 2017: one passage at a time from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations. 8 parts
2018
72 blog posts · 55 newsletter issues
- The 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
- Joining Thighs of Steel First ride with Thighs of Steel, Ljubljana to Sofia: “I had found my community.”
2019
46 blog posts · 55 newsletter issues
- A Celtic Media Award nomination The second radio series of Foiled is nominated.
- A new Davecade Looking back on the 2010s and forward to the twenties.
2020
53 blog posts · 53 newsletter issues
2021
27 blog posts · 53 newsletter issues
- 100 Days of Adventure After 2,117 hours at the computer in 2020, a year counting days spent outdoors on adventures.
2022
23 blog posts · 47 newsletter issues
2023
22 blog posts · 44 newsletter issues
2024
3 blog posts · 34 newsletter issues
2025
1 blog post · 34 newsletter issues
- Goodbye, Thighs of Steel Thighs of Steel, the refugee solidarity bike ride, closes. Together the riders raised over £760,000 for projects run by refugees for refugees.
2026
11 newsletter issues
- This archive The blog moves off WordPress to become this free, permanent archive of twenty years of stories.
