Bernie and Sarah are based near the North Devon coast in the UK. We enjoy travelling slowly by bike through different parts of the world and meeting people from different cultures along the way. We started out as mountain bikers and as we went further afield it seemed natural to take some panniers and just keep peddling.


We began touring by doing a lot of short 2 to 4 week tours in various parts of the world including Vietnam, High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, lots of different parts of France and Spain, East Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Kerala and Tamil Nadu in Southern India, New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, New Zealand and of course in the UK, Scotland, Wales, The Lake District and Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
In 2015 we went on a longer tour spending 3 months cycling The Great Divide along the Rockies from Banff in Canada to Silver City in New Mexico. We fund raised for charity during the trip raising £2644.21 for the humanitarian charity ShelterBox. If you would still like to donate you can click on the ShelterBox Charity tab on our links page as our Just Giving link is now closed.
In December 2016 and on into 2017 we started a new adventure in South America, hoping to get from Cartagena in Colombia down to Tierra del Fuego. That year we got as far Quito in Ecuador before my knees requested a break from the hills. Then, in 2018/19 we made a new start from Santiago in Chile and headed south through Chile and Argentina. We hope to come back and fill in the gaps another time.

I (Sarah) have to admit to having another passion and that is plants, and I have occasionally landed head first in the undergrowth while trying to photograph an interesting specimen while still peddling.

So although this blog is mainly about our cycle tours I will be tacking a plant photo section in somewhere or as my family know them “Just one more purple flower picture”.
I haven’t fallen off the bike taking plant photos yet, but it has been a near thing and I have cycled into a bush!