The masonry layout
17 October 2025
Thursday 16th October 2025 – Blinman to Yanyanna Hut, 40km The overall plan was to cycle the Mawson Trail over a 3 week period, 900km of off-road trails through the Flinders Mountsin Range. All seemed very doable from the research, and there had been a lot! We had a plan, but never expected to keep […]
17 October 2025
We arrived in Sydney on Fri 3rd Oct for a 3-month adventure. Our base is Austinmer, South Sydney where we have a house swap for the 3 months – but a big part of our trip will be cycling the Mawson Trail – a 900km cycling trail in the Flinders mountain range – starting in […]
23 June 2023
21 June 23 – Buncrana to Moville – 89km Well we couldn’t sit still for too long, so after a break of a week we decided to take the bikes out again and ‘finish’ our journey properly by going all the way up to Malin Head, Ireland’s most northerly point, and around the Inishowen peninsula. […]
11 June 2023
A quick note on our navigation. Initially I thought that we would be using the GPS that we used for most of our world tour. As it turns out this is great for remote areas, but actually Google Maps is more than adequate for more civilised parts. We have, however, learnt that Mr Google doesn’t […]
11 June 2023
Tues 6 May. Rosses Point to Donegal Town. 71km. I woke up pretty excited today as this was the day we were going to cross into my home county of Donegal. No idea why I felt so excited but I guess seeing the familiar names on signposts made me feel like I was on a […]
5 June 2023
2 May 23 – Westport to An Ceann Ramhar – 82km We had a reasonably slow get-up, packed the bikes and said goodbye to Westport. Really enjoyed our stay here and it’s definitely somewhere that we will come back to in the future and would recommend as a place to visit. The first couple of […]