This Tamworth bikepacking loop is a four-day ride that starts and finishes in Quirindi. It climbs over Old Wallabadah Roadto Nundle, follows Chaffey Dam and the farming country around Woolomin, then rolls into Tamworth before a long gravel day back.…
When the opportunity was available to drive a car one way from Brisbane to Townsville over 5 days with a $1 a day car rental, we were all in. We got there on a 6am flight using points and the…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…