Seek Travel Ride
Want more adventure in your life? Hear real adventure travel stories and practical insights from people who explore the world in bold and meaningful ways by bike, on foot, and close to home.
Seek Travel Ride is an adventure travel podcast for anyone curious about travel and looking to bring more adventure into their everyday.
Host Bella Molloy chats with adventurers and everyday people about bicycle touring, cycle touring, bikepacking, long-distance cycling, and other human-powered adventures. You’ll also hear slow travel, cultural discovery and micro-adventure stories that show adventure can happen anywhere.
Expect travel stories, helpful advice and practical tips you can use to shape your own adventures, whether you’re dreaming of world travel, planning your first bike travel journey, or starting small with something close to home.
Remember it doesn't need to be epic to be an Adventure!
Seek Travel Ride
Around the World by Bicycle: Live in Melbourne
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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:
Follow the guests on Instagram:
- Em Hulbert: @emhulbert
- Fergal Guihen: @rossi.to.aussie
- David McCourt: @longwayhome__2022
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