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Week Eleven: Hot and Chill in Croatia
Trieste to Zadar, 581km; total 5,135km “I love you, baby.” - Required Croatian marital expression Over almost twenty years of marriage,...
Ed Gillis
Jun 13, 20228 min read


Week Ten: Exchanging two wheels for two feet - Our Mid-Trip Backpackers’ Whirlwind
Venice to Venice (via Malaga, Rome and Naples by train, plane, bus, tram, taxi, Uber, Venice canal airport water taxi, and 29km on foot)...
Ed Gillis
Jun 1, 20226 min read


Week Ten: Biking from One Fun Thing to the Next - and Knowing When to Stay Longer
Varna to Verona, 387km; total 4,554km Wedged between two massive dolomite slabs, hands gripping with all their 12-year-old strength,...
Ed Gillis
May 24, 20227 min read


Flat and Chill vs Mountains and Awesome: leaving France’s Canals for Italy’s Alps
Paris to Varna, 531km; total 4,167km Maybe we should’ve stayed in France. For the past six days, we’d floated blissfully alongside...
Ed Gillis
May 19, 20225 min read


Week Eight: Castles, Caves and Fluent Conversation: Reveling in our Francophonie along the Loire
Saint-Brevin to Paris: 465km; total 3,636km Another week, another mad dash to a must-reach destination. This time, however, there was no...
Ed Gillis
May 10, 20228 min read


Week Six/Seven: Beautiful, blustery bike-touring with a teenager on France’s Atlantic Vélodyssée
Pamplona to Saint-Brevin-L’Ocean, 767km; total 3,171k “Il y a toujours ce vent d'inconnu et d'aventures qui nous talonne tous.” We were...
Ed Gillis
May 2, 20227 min read


Our first podcast!
Thank you Karin at 10Adventures for this super-fun opportunity to participate in our first podcast. We talked about our favourite moments...
Ed Gillis
Apr 25, 20221 min read


Week Five/Six: Our divine Semana santa on the Camino de Santiago
(Credit: Joce’s fabulous cousin @redsandsam) Santiago de Compostela to Pamplona, 784km in 8 days - a new family record! Trip total to...
Ed Gillis
Apr 23, 20227 min read


Week Four: Let the Kids Plan
Porto to Santiago de Compostela, 341km, total 1,620k “Six-point-nine!” The kilometre countdown was getting more precise and frequent as...
Ed Gillis
Apr 11, 20227 min read


Week Three: A Tale of Two West Coasts
Setubàl to Porto, 563 km - total 1,279k “Here comes another cove climb!” Our shoulders would slump each time one of us uttered the...
Ed Gillis
Apr 5, 20228 min read


Week Two: Portugal’s Awesome Off-Season
Vila Real de San Antonio to Setùbal, 454km (total 716k) Algarve is a rising vacation mecca for wealthy Europeans - rivaling Ibiza, Nice...
Ed Gillis
Mar 28, 20226 min read


Week One: Finding our Feet on Spain’s Costa del sol
Malaga, Spain, to Altura, Portugal - 262 km cycling That first sleep after a long travel day is always sweet and deep - which is why we...
Ed Gillis
Mar 22, 20226 min read


Europe Epic: Getting There (or, Ode to the End of Covid)
It wasn’t only us who had been waiting for this moment. The 5am check-in line at Erik Neilson Airport in Whitehorse was packed with March...
Ed Gillis
Mar 14, 20223 min read


European Epic 2022 !
Our next family adventure begins on March 12, with a 10,000km bike tour from Morocco to Norway It began on a beach in the middle of the...
Ed Gillis
Jan 29, 20222 min read


Our First Book! Oceania Odyssey on Amazon
Ever since our first adventure with our kids - an eight-month Parental Leave epic hiking across Europe and South America - the people we...
Ed Gillis
Jan 29, 20222 min read
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