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 to be me… Check out the full interview where I talk about the joys and challenges of cycling around the world on https://youtu.be/UnYcx0yavP8 or directly below: By the way, it’s still not too late to order my new book that is mentioned in the interview. Point your browser to http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com/book/ for all the information you need ..read more

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 a copy at: http://www.cyclingtheglobe.com/book/ Best wishes, Thomas ..read more

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. 2017 has been a different year compared to the prior 6 years of cycling around the world. There has certainly been less hours spent in the saddle and less physical adventure, but at at the same time the year brought plenty of travel and new experiences. Physically I moved from South America to Africa and Asia and back again, but even with all this moving around, it was more year of reflection and looking back. The book about the trip has been ..read more

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 obviously been more predictable and less nomadic. People have asked if it was an anti-climax to finish. I wouldn’t really say so. This physical adventure might be over, but there is still plenty of both physical and mental adventures to come in life. Do I miss life on the bike? Of course I do, but not as much as I would have thought. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that winter was coming fast after I arrived back home. I was someho ..read more

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 special places and moments I captured along the way. #1 Wroclaw Bridge   It’s a tradition that young couples put a lock on this bridge in Wroclaw, Poland when they get married. I spent a couple of days in this beautiful city with good friends who were also perfect guides. Poland is an interesting country. So close to Denmark, yet culturally so different. You don’t have to travel around the globe to experience a different culture.   #2 The M ..read more

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 around the world, and now I was about to finish it all. My first thought as I started to pack my tent was how much I will miss this nomadic lifestyle. The fresh air, the exercise, the new friends, the extraordinary landscapes of our planet, that fact that all my belongings fit into 3 bags, the hospitality of strangers, and above all the freedom. Then I attached my bags to my bike as I have done so many mornings ..read more

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 just in time for a nice home cooked dinner at my dads house, and then I was so tired that I went directly to bed. This morning I was doing a quick interview with a journalist from the local Horsens Folkeblad before taking off. If you happen to understand a bit of Danish, the interview ended up like this. (Large photo here) Saying goodbye to my family was not as hard as last time I did it. Now I was ..read more

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 landscape of fiords, small cities, and rolling country side. With an average temperature of 6°C and strong winds I thought my country could have welcomed me a bit more gentle, though. I was thinking about exotic cycle destinations such as the beaches of Southern Thailand or the Caribbean coast of Mexico, but then again, I really wouldn’t like to be anywhere but right here, cycling through the rough bu ..read more

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 the north – nature is still throwing challenges at me, but with the prospect of crossing the Danish border later in the afternoon it would take more than that to stop me. After cycling through the tunnel under the Kiel Canal I was looking forward to have breakfast with Carsten and Conny in Rendsburg. Carsten is a radio guy who I have met several times over the years. These days both him and Conny wo ..read more

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. Now, nothing comes for free, and I was paying for the sunshine in terms of a strong head wind, bringing the average speed of the day down to 16 km/h. I final blow from nature on this last stage of the adventure, but I have the feeling that nothing can stop me now… Lunch number one consumed at the sunny parking spot of Lidl before continuing towards Hamburg to cross the Elbe river. On the way ..read more