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GEORGIA | Fri, 2 May 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [1113]
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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GEORGIA | Fri, 11 Apr 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [609]
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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GEORGIA | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [849]
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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ARMENIA | Wed, 19 Mar 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [1175]
The driver’s wearing a leather jacket, thick material. I think
“that’s too hot inside this cramped vehicle - it must be for the look”.
The driver looks like a gangster out of a Guy Ritchie film. Somehow I
convinced myself to put my trust in this gold-... Read more >
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ARMENIA | Thu, 21 Feb 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [610]
Last summer when we set off from England on our bicycles we had dreams
of long wonderful summer days and leaving our waterproofs at home,
replaced by an extra pannier of suncream. However, in practice we were
reaching for the ponchos more than expected ... Read more >
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ARMENIA | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [825]
I arrived in Yerevan last Wednesday. I have been staying with some
wonderful new friends who work at the French Embassy here. From the
first village after crossing the border into Armenia from Georgia, Tom
and I decided to cycle alone to Yerevan. ... Read more >
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GEORGIA | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 | By ride-earth | Views [1153]
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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TURKEY | Thu, 20 Dec 2007 | By ride-earth | Views [803]
The other day I was cycling towards Trabzon. We went through a
number of dark, ominous looking tunnels through the hills. I’m cycling
along, and then there it is, another black hole. My blood pressure
rises, the hard shoulder thins and squeezes me ... Read more >
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