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Insulin 360
I was sheltering from the scorching midday sun on a beach in Italy when my phone pinged. It was an email from Jerry Gore, co-founder of Action 4 Diabetes. “Hey Dougal, have you done much mountain biking?”. Memories of catapulting myself over the handlebars and ending up in A&E came to mind, but worried that…
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New Zealand
In 2018 I cycled 3000km around New Zealand, here are some photos and memories of the trip. I picked up an old Gary Fisher bike for 100 NZ dollars or about £50 from Adventure cycles in Auckland, the best bike shop I’ve ever been to. The owner, by the name of Bruce O’Halloran, was a…
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Indonesia
Summer of 2017. I was finally free from school and now the future lay before me, not like an open horizon as I’d envisaged, but like a maze with endless entrances. My illusion of freedom dissolved – infinite possibilities I may have had – but I felt stifled by choice, this liberty nothing but a…
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Malaysia
After our adventures in Indonesia, my friend Charles and I decided to travel around the Malaysian peninsular, starting in Kula Lumpur. Arriving in KL, we stayed with Christine, who we met through workaway. Christine was a math teacher in her thirties who lived alone in an apartment on the 10th floor of a ditch-water-grey 14-story…
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Malaysia part 2
After our time at Positive Living Community, Charles and I decided to go for a cycling adventure around Malaysia. We bought a couple of bikes from Rawang for £60 each and set off with not much of a plan. Taken from the diary I wrote at the time, here are some anecdotes and highlights from…