We’re Andrew & Friedel Grant — two Canadians who, after living in the UK for 6 years, have set off to travel around the world by bicycle.
We had no previous bike touring experience when we began, having really only gotten into cycling at the start of 2006, and when we say we “got into cycling” that means short commutes to work along flat cycle paths and the odd day trip, that usually ended up at the pub. We’re still not quite certain how that translated into the situation where Friedel said “hey, let’s bike around the world” and Andrew said “sure, why not”.
Regardless of how it came about, we are so glad we got up the courage to hand in our notice at work, sell our house, liquidate all our posessions and set off on our global bicycle adventure. We have no regrets.
After getting some fantastic bicycles from a British bike builder Robin Mather, we completed the first leg of our tour, from Montreal to Sackville NB, in September. After a short break at home with friends and family, we continued through Holland, Germany, France and Spain, entering Morocco in January for a sunny winter break. We then worked our way back across Europe, down through Italy and into Turkey and Syria. Iran is our first stop in 2008, to be followed by Central Asia, China and….. ?
As you can probably tell, there is no exact route, just a plan to take one day at a time. If you have any questions, please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you! You can also sign up for our emails. From time to time we put together a little radio show (better known as a bicycle touring podcast), the RSS link can be placed into your favorite audio feed reader. We also upload videos, when internet connections cooperate with us.
Finally, if you’d like to read the journal in a more chronological order (as opposed to our site which shows the latest post first), then we have put up the entries along with some photos on the wonderful Crazyguyonabike site. You can find our journal here. The site is a mecca for all things bicycle touring and if you are interested in this way of travel then it will keep you amused for hours.
