England to China by bicycle - and back again

Emily got me this little monkey for the front of my bike. It's part of a pair of monkeys she bought in Emeishan. She's got the other...

DAY 2 Sunday 4th September 2005 Start: Shanghai (Hongkou district) End: Shanghai (Xu Hui district) Distance: 16.8 km Time: 0'55" Av...

DAY 1 3rd September 2005 Start: Shanghai (Hongkou district) End: Shanghai (Hongkou district) Via: Sanjiagang on Shanghai's Pacific coast...

Dee square peg don't go in dee round hole, and dee bicycle don't go in dee biggest box in dee China Post office, and if it don't...

The long ride home starts today - here I am at the Pacific Ocean coast just east of Shanghai. My bike is the heavy-looking one. Crawling to ...

The end of a tube of toothpaste - after a good innings, this tube of Russian-made toothpaste finally bows out. I bought it in Ulan Bator, Mo...

Something I'll miss about Shanghai - nice chocolate crunchy cakes from the bakery down the road.

Latest news from the man with the abacus (he's locked in the bottom drawer of the 2wheels webserver): We're just about to go past ...

This blog is supposed to be about my bike ride from Shanghai to England , so I suppose I ought to write about something vaguely relevant at ...

If you're English, you might enjoy listening to this . If you're Australian, you might prefer the scorecard from Lords, but you...

March 2004: January 2005: December 2006: ????? Seeking your guidance on this... should the beard come back for the return journey?

Woke up this mornin'.... Looked out the door, Hui He Lu in north-east Shanghai's Hongkou district was under water, after Typhoon Mat...

Cambridge arch'n'anthers, other old-school anthropologists, and closet Pete and Dud fans might want to have a look at this recently-...

The poor old folk at the Guardian seem to be scraping the barrel in some desperation this week, to the point where they felt obliged to give...

Traces of di-hydrogen oxide have been found in Shanghai's Huangpu River, local environment officials have admitted, weeks after rumours ...

[extracts from a rant fired off to a film producer who, reasonably enough, wanted to know why I was going] It's a funny one, this. The...

Folks, it's official. 2wheels is coming to a TV screen near you! All it takes is for someone to agree to make the film, and then for...

Lest my post earlier today about the use of non-Roman writing systems in domain names causes you to think I am anti-foreign-languages: far f...

[key words: internet, nominet, english, domain names] The Grauniad reports that Nominet is considering allowing registration of domain na...

So far I have received no complaints about the invitation to "sing up for regular 2wheels email updates", which appears at the foo...