England to China by bicycle - and back again

Time and again as I cycled through Russia and China, I found high-quality, and often very beautiful, maps of the regions I was passing throu...

Windmill at Oelegem, Belgium

Following the announcement by Google that it will no longer support blogs which, like this one, are maintained by FTP, it will not be possib...

Photographs from Yushu (Jyegu / Jyekundo), before the earthquake. Looking north-east over Yushu town Yushu (Jyegu) town from the south-...

I'm unwrapping it live on  http://twitter.com/2wheels

I've created a little webpage which displays Chinese character flashcards . It began as a project to help me with my own Chinese charact...

Taking a brief break from the cycling, I was looking for a map showing the location of all the public libraries in Birmingham, and couldn...

Poster in Anhui province, China. Text reads: Study the "Three Represents". Put into practice the "Three Represents"...

"In Wuyuan," my middle school conversationalist informs me as I slurp fried rice noodles for dinner, "many people say that t...

From my diary, Sunday 11th September 2005 Laoban tells me he gets 25 yuan per jin (1) of hickory nuts. That's what he charged me for be...

Saturday 10th September 2005. Jiakou, Zhejiang, China Starting to rediscover what distance really means in China. No longer is Huangshan jus...

Friday 9th September 2005. Changle, Zhejiang, China. All along road people, old grandmothers especially, are stripping bamboo with bea...

8th September 2005. Huzhou, Zhejiang, China On the TV, Beijing beat Shanghai on aggregate, after extra time, last night. Breakfast: bananas ...

7th September 2005. Jin Ze, China. Sit for a Russian-style farewell with Aliona. Leaving hurts; I feel tight-throated. Ride the way I seem t...

Zhutang, Yunnan province, China. 11th January 2006. Laoban at hotel is a nice bloke with one arm. He shares the vice of many by wanting to e...

The first in what I hope may become a series of snippets from my diary. 12th January 2006. Shang Yun, Yunnan province, China Funny little ho...

You may have seen Jonathan Watts writing in The Guardian yesterday about the Three Gorges of the Sky . Here's his opening paragraph: ...

Now that's what I call breakfast -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Hotel sign, Dunhuang, Gansu province, China -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Camels on the lake shore, Xinjiang, China. -- All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Central market, Almaty, Kazakhstan. All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Carrying pole, Guizhou, China. All photos and text copyright Edward Genochio 2006

Petrol Station, Guangxi province, China. Copyright (C) Edward Genochio 2006

Musician, Guangxi province, China

Vietnam Sunset

21,542 km from Shanghai, or 42,000 km from Exeter, my bicycle carries me back to Belgium, 29 years and a month or two after having been born...

The hot news is: 1. It's hot. 2. I'm in Lvov (aka Lviv), Ukraine, where it is hot. 3. It's hot. Apologies for lack of blog since...

Chaps, I'm in Uralsk.   Asmund will fill you in on the details, I expect.   Edward

Shymkent. Hot. Cycling. 14,288 km since Shanghai.   Hope you enjoy the new minimalist blogging style. Edward

I apologise for the absence of any photos in the previous post. Here is some clover, which made a nice soft bed for the night on the way to ...

Almaty, Kazakhstan.   Internet access here ain't what it is in China (where every second building has an internet cafe in the basement...

Start: Khorgos (Huoerguosi), Xinjiang, China End: Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan Distance: 155 km Time: 7'34" Avg: 20.5 k/h Max: 38 k/h ...

0 km etc. In 14 hours time they will let me over the border, inshallah. Yesterday I haggled with the borderfolk for a long time. It really w...

Start: Hillside above Sailimu Hu, Xinjiang, China End: Khorgos (Huoerguosi), Xinjiang, China Distance: 90 km Time: 3'50" Avg: 23.7 ...

Sorry, all very quiet here on 2wheels recently, I know. I have been pedalling furiously in a vaguely westerly direction. I am now sitting in...

Start: Sailimu Lake (east end), Xinjiang, China End: Sailimu Lake (west end), Xinjiang, China Distance: 25 km Time: 1'28" Avg: 17.1...

Start: Sand dune, 20 km beyond Jing He, Xinjiang, China End: Sailimu Lake, Xinjiang, China Distance: 116 km Time: 8'27" Avg: 13.7 k...