A new look A Fish Out Of Water
It’s a blog about cycle touring, why it’s a great way to travel (in my humble opinion) and how to do it on the cheap. Hi, I’m Jamie and this is my small corner of the internet where I’ve been hiding during the pandemic. I’ve revamped the website that I used in order to keep […]
Maastricht to Munich – Across the Alps and onto Munich
Cycling over Furka Pass – Swiss Alps Eventually, I came to the last village before the mountain pass. The walls of the valley looked foreboding now and I was feeling a little apprehensive to say the least. Switzerland had been a hard slug in parts but it was to get a whole lot tougher today. […]
Maastricht to Munich -Schwarzwald and crossing the Alps
French border – the Alps Cycle touring through The Black Forest Having cycled through France, I came to the Rhine where I crossed the border into Germany. From Rheinau, I made my way through the stunning Black Forest and onto Switzerland. I had read many times how beautiful this part of Germany was but nothing […]
Maastricht to Munich – Cycling eight countries in 23 days
Maastricht to the French border Having spent a good couple of years off the bike, It was high time for a bit of an adventure. The plan: to travel from Maastricht to to Munich through The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Austria. I had only three weeks in which to do it […]
A few photos from Hanoi, Vietnam
Luang Prabang to Hanoi. Yet more extraordinary coincidences. The end is nigh
I arrived back in Hanoi almost a month ago and I have been able to concentrate on getting myself settled into life here. I have no idea how long I’ll be here but it’s really a quite fantastically crazy and chaotic city and I’m already enjoying the challenges and frustrations that are inevitably thrown up when one […]
Civilisation at last! Lazy days in Nong khiaw, Laos and meeting a kindred spirit
Arriving in Nong khiaw, I was faced with a plethora of bungalow options in which to choose from. Thinking I deserved one that was value for money, I rode across the bridge in order to find someone/anyone to ask about the options available. The backpacker I stopped didn’t really have a clue – the guy […]
Cycling up and down in Laos and meeting strange ladies of the night
I crossed into Laos and immediately set to work in finding somewhere to camp. It gets dark here by 18:00 and that doesn’t leave me with much time to even cook my food and so I chose a place not two kilometres from the border. It wasn’t great. There was stagnant water everywhere and mosquitoes […]
Gotta get out of Vietnam quickly! Desperate times call for….
I had woken up every morning in the last few days of my stay in Hanoi feeling wretched. I didn’t feel ill in the conventional sense but my body just seemed depleted of energy. It never seemed to matter how much water or orange juice I had drank the night before or indeed how much […]
Hanoi – What to do? I’m running out of money fast!
Well yet again I have left it far too late in writing another post which leaves me sat on my balcony in Nong Khiaw, Laos with a completely blank mind squinting back into the past in order to try to remember what it was I actually did/accomplish back in Hanoi. Thinking back, I didn’t actually […]