Why I Built MapMonkey
I love Strava. I love it so much I’ve turned off every alert it sends me — I don’t need a notification every time someone I know posts an activity. I’ve been on it a long time too. Strava user…
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RACV Reciprocal Clubs: The Singapore Layover Hack
For years I assumed the private members’ club thing wasn’t for people like us. Old money, leather armchairs, a committee somewhere deciding you weren’t quite the type. Then I worked out you can buy your way into the global version…
Cycling the Shimanami Kaido & Walking the Nakasendo
A few friends, after hearing me bang on about Japan for the better part of a year, asked me to write the trip up properly. Not a highlight recon — the actual route, what it cost, the little hacks that…
Sydney Cycling Climbs: Mapped, Ranked & Compared
Sydney is full of hills. It always surprises me how much I’ve climbed even on a short day. The first hill I ever really noticed was Kissing Point. Mainly because I lived at the bottom of it, and my first…
Five Australian Train Trips in Five Years (and Why I Built the Tools)
Let’s get the disappointment out of the way first: Australian long-distance trains are nothing like Europe’s. There’s no TGV gliding across the countryside at 300km/h, no Swiss precision, no turn-up-and-go frequency. Our trains are slow, often old, sometimes only run…
5 Singapore Travel Hacks You Won’t Find in Guidebooks (2026)
I lived in Singapore for six months before “retiring,” and I fell in love with the place by getting under the hood. I now travel back annually for regular stopovers. Recently, I booked a $400 return Scoot flight that I…
Munich Gravel Cycling: Four Rides That Will Surprise You
I thought Melbourne was a great gravel cycling city but Munich blew me away as an even better gravel cycling city. Within 30 minutes of the CBD you are riding alongside rivers, through forests and past lakes with the Alps…
EuroVelo 7: Burghausen to Bolzano — Our 440km Alps Cycling Guide
Why we started at Burghausen instead of Passau, how we navigated Eurovelo 7 when the signs ran out, and what we’d do differently next time First, A Word About Passau Most cyclists doing EuroVelo 7 start at Passau. It’s the…
7 Days on Two Wheels: A Cyclist’s Guide to Bordeaux and the Dordogne
Nothing is better for building an awesome cycling holiday around than a destination wedding invitation to Bordeaux. As veterans of six previous trips across Europe—cycling through Scotland, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Czechia—we got pretty excited. Inspired by friends’ photos…