Ride Earth On Sunday 17th June 2007, Tom Allen, Andrew Welch and Mark Maultby embarked upon Ride Earth - their mission to circumnavigate the world by mountain bike. Follow their progress here.

Georgia

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Practicing What You Preach

Friday, 2 May 2008 | Views [1131]

Last night I went to teach my English speaking lesson at the ‘Georgian-Scottish-House’ in Tbilisi. Recently I have had another gear-change with regards to my thinking on how I can do my bit to help reduce the now widely accepted human-induced climate ... Read more >

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Small is Beautiful

Friday, 11 Apr 2008 | Views [623]

These are some quotes from E.F. Schumacher’s series of books, Small is Beautiful: “The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses ... Read more >

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Space and Time

Monday, 31 Mar 2008 | Views [862]

I’m in Tbilisi and hopefully this blog will fill in what has been happening with me. As you may know I arrived in Yerevan for the first time, by bicycle, on the 24th January. I met up with Tom in the city after we had cycled alone from near the Georgian ... Read more >

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Tbilisi Beneath the Ice

Thursday, 17 Jan 2008 | Views [1179]

When Sylvester, the Polish cyclist we met on Christmas Day in Batumi, was explaining that conditions were difficult here for local people in Georgia, coping with the cold midwinter, I remember thinking, surely it’s not as difficult as cycling round ... Read more >

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A Cold Start to a New Year

Saturday, 12 Jan 2008 | Views [908]

Tom After a week of relentless and sometimes masochistic cycling covering almost 500km, we arrived in the snowy Georgian capital of Tbilisi on New Year’s Eve. At 2 a.m. This wasn’t the way we would usually have gone about our journey. I prefer ... Read more >

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