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Hi, my name is Thomas Andersen. In October 2010 I left Denmark by bicycle, not knowing what to expect. What followed was an epic journey.
I have cycled through Eastern Europe learning all about the local beer, I have been chased by dogs in Turkey. I have pedalled through Syria before the war. I have been a celebrity in Malaysia, and worked on a huge cattle station in Australia.
I spent the year of 2014 cycling through South America which looked like this!
In 2016 I flew to Cape Town and cycled back to Denmark where it all started 6 years earlier.
I hope you will enjoy your stay on this site. Come along by checking out the diary below, and also the feeds on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
My friend and talented filmmaker Ricardo has been working on a project called A Foreign Sight creating short story-telling videos about people he encounters on his way.
One of them happened ...
Dear reader,
It took a while, but my book "He Who Cycled - A Ride to the End of the World and Back" is now available!
If you are interested - get ...
Dear followers of Cycling The Globe. This blog has been quiet for a while, so I thought Christmas would be a good opportunity to send out a sign of life. ...
It has now been 6 months and a few days since I arrived back in Copenhagen by bicycle after 2200 days on the road. Physically, life without the bike has ...
It took me six years to cycle around the world. Every day I would take at least one photo with my trusty Canon camera. This is a selection of 37 ...
Distance: 57.4 km
Ride time: 3:40:14
Average: 15.7 km/h
Max speed: 35.3 km/h
Total: 58201 km
Day 2200 on the road, 6 years and 8 days since I left Copenhagen with the idea of cycling ...
Distance: 90.2 km
Ride time: 5:18:11
Average: 17.0 km/h
Max speed: 38.9 km/h
Total: 58143 km
The program at the Cycling The Globe office is a rather intense one these days. Yesterday I had arrived ...
Distance: 125.9 km
Ride time: 8:10:17
Average: 15.4 km/h
Max speed: 38.2 km/h
Total: 58052 km
It felt pretty surreal, waking up in my tent on Danish soil and start to cycle through the familiar ...
Distance: 124.4 km
Ride time: 7:09:53
Average: 17.4 km/h
Max speed: 35.3 km/h
Total: 57926 km
The temperature was 2°C as I packed my tent and started cycling into the steady head wind coming from ...
Distance: 113.4 km
Ride time: 6:53:53
Average: 16.4 km/h
Max speed: 30.2 km/h
Total: 57802 km
The morning was considerably more sunny than what I have experienced lately as I made my way towards Hamburg. ...
