Daragh Cronin is back with a wild update from his Cork to Everest Base Camp ride. This time he shares with us the extraordinary hospitality of Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. Then every bike travellers nightmare, a flat refusal at the Federal Iraq border crossing derailing his plans for his route.

This led Daragh to have to re-route through Dubai and Kuwait City where the intensity of the trip got turned to the max when he found himself trying to cycle through the desert in extreme heat leading to a stint in hospital to be treated for heatstroke.

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This is a live show, recorded on stage at the Antique Bar in Melbourne. Joining me on stage were three guests who between them have cycled through some of the most remote, challenging and eye-opening places on earth, Fergal Guihen, Em Hulbert and David McCourt.

Fergal cycled from Roscommon, Ireland to Sydney via Mauritania, Iran, Afghanistan, the Tibetan Plateau and beyond. Em Hulbert is mid-journey on a solo ride around the world, delivering water filters to communities in need through her project The Water Cycle. David McCourt set off from Melbourne bound for Northern Ireland, taking a route through Central Asia, Iran, Bangladesh, Nepal and Turkey that took years and produced stories he'll be dining out on forever.

In this episode we cover:

• Going from thought bubble to turning pedals
• Luxury items on the bike and what actually earns its place
• Perceptions versus reality: China, Iran, Bangladesh and Thailand
• Getting drugged and robbed in the Iranian desert
• A sex dungeon in rural Thailand at 4am after 250 kilometres
• The Nullarbor without music, podcasts or any distraction at all
• Solo female bicycle travel and the extra layer that comes with it
• The spaces in between and why that's where the magic happens
• Why the hardest moments are the ones you'd go back and relive

Want to hear the full individual episodes with each guest? Find them here:

• Em Hulbert: Ep. 127:
• David McCourt: Ep. 99: and Ep. 120.
• Fergal Guihen: Ep. 144 and Ep. 145:

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• Em Hulbert: @emhulbert
• Fergal Guihen: @rossi.to.aussie
• David McCourt: @longwayhome__2022

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James Baile, along with two complete strangers (one of which hadn't ridden a bike since he was 13!) packed their Bromptons into IKEA bags and flew to Dakar. What followed was two weeks riding through Senegal and The Gambia: navigating Dakar rush hour, camping on school playgrounds by invitation of village chiefs, pushing loaded folding bikes through sand that felt like treacle, and sparking conversations with strangers over football allegiances.

In this episode we talk about:

• How a Facebook post about the Tropic of Cancer set the whole thing in motion
• What it's actually like to tour on a Brompton
• Riding a route that goes from the edges of the Sahara Desert to the beginnings of West African forest
• The reality of border crossings into Senegal and The Gambia for European travellers
• Taking an overnight ferry back to Dakar with Bromptons as hand luggage
• Why going somewhere with zero expectations means everything exceeds them
• James's next big adventure connecting a journey he started back in 1986

Give James a follow via his instagram - @jamesb.adventures and you can also listen to the previous episode with him here.

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