It started out as a suggestion as many of these things do, "Do you fancy a cycling trip next year?", "Yeah, sounds good". It's been a long year of planning (kind of), reading cycling forums, buying bikes, testing kit, and more physiotherapy than we would have wanted. Finally however all of this is about to come to fruition as we (Andrew and Adam) set out on our bikes on the 6th April to try and cycle around Europe.


When you say "cycle around Europe" most people respond, "so where are you going", and we've taken pleasure in responding, with brash confidence, oh we're not planning a route, we're just going to see where the roads take us. But as you're following our blog we thought it was only fair to give you a sneak peak. We will start in Croydon and head South to take the ferry to France, we then aim to follow a route to the West of Paris cutting across to Bordeaux, before skirting the Pyrenees and cycling along the Mediterranean Coast towards Italy. From there, who knows……


Our bikes will become our friends, and enemies, laden with all the worldly possessions we need to camp and survive. We hope, with foolhardy optimism, that they will help us complete the 2000+ miles that we aim to achieve. Our biggest challenge however will be the discomfort of camping, which, on our shoestring budget we hope to do wild and free.