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The Man Who Cycled the World
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On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Paris in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. Mark smashed the Guinness World Record by an astonishing 81 days. He had travelled more than... read more

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  • “P.17: I quickly shaved off the Mohican I had grown and was dropped at the student halls to be met by a wrestling-mad American and a rugby-mad Scotsman. Brendan, the American, was to become one of my best friends, and a flat mate throughout my university days. Ross, too, remains a good friend.”
  • “P.60-61: My vegetarianism has never been about the taste of meat. Having grown up on a farm I had always eaten and enjoyed meat. It was simply through a dislike of many industrial farming standards and the cruelty in commercial abbatoirs that I preferred not to eat meat when given the choice. In Scotland you almost always get this choice.”
  • “P.75: You can tell a lot about a country from the number and style of its petrol stations. At the first of these I discovered Ulker Biskrem, a Turkish biscuit which comes in apple, fig, and chocolate varieties; it would become a staple for the next weeks.”
  • “P.162: On one country section I passed a team of twenty men digging up the tar by hand with pack-axes. They stopped, stared, then shouted and waved at me, with the same workmen cheer you find the world over, happy at their tough job, perhaps because they had one another.”
  • “P.254: The only people in sight were three men by a pickup, so I wheeled over to ask them if there was anywhere else.There were dressed like labourers, in jeans. Two had T-shirts on and the other a checked shirt. The shirted one had a handlebar mustache and impressive tattoos down both arms to his wrists, and a swallow on the back of both hands. One of the others was smaller, less well built, with a shaved head. The last of them was fairly nondescript: white, short hair, average build. He was maybe ten years younger, in his midtwenties. They were alll leaning on the back of the pickup when I arrived.”

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