Hello! Coming from Scotland I'm used to hills so I'm really happy to be leading a bike tour in Japan! I became involved with environmental activities through PEPY in Cambodia during a cycle tour over 3 weeks in December 07. As an avid driver and conbini user I'm keen to learn myself and teach others how we can change towards leading environmentally friendly lives. First step; get on the bike! こんにちは。チームリーダーのコリン・ジョンストンと申します。これまで三年間、福井県の東陽中学校で働いてきました。スコットランド出身で、山が大好きです。昨年カンボジアでの自転車ツアーに参加してから、環境保護について考えるようになりました。地球のために、自分自身ができる最初のステップ、それが「自転車に乗ること」。全国で自転車を乗りまわすこのツアーにとてもわくわくしています。 よろしくおねがいします。
Hello everyone. We are currently on our second night of WWOOF homestays in a row in Kyushu. Yesterday and today we rode through heavy rain but each night we have been greeted by warm beds and good food. We are a little worried about the Typhoon heading our way but hopefully we can make it [...]
After a night of revels with the irrepressible Mo-chan we awoke to a breakfast of homemade granola lovingly prepared by Cat (I’m always in awe of her ability to get up and make food appear out of midair). Over breakfast we chatted and hummed and hawed and packed and repacked, none of us wanting to [...]
Hello everyone!
I feel like it has been ages since I last wrote a blog post. In fact it has been ages but the time just flies by on his so it seems like just yesterday that we waved goodbye to Wakkanai and headed south on our journey.
So far we have travelled about 1400km, we`ve been [...]
We left Muroran under cover of darkness and as the good ship Venus rolled out under the Muroran Hisgashi Bridge we said goodbye to Hokkaido from the stern and turned our heads to face a new island; Honshu. For those of you who can`t remember you school geograph; there are 4 main islands on Japan [...]
Route Notes
The road over the hill to Takikawa is about 20km of uphill at 2% then you run downhill to the 233 and 275 intersection (there is a great farm stall here). We headed for Takikawa, some on the main roads and some on the river cycling road. The cycling path is very confusing and [...]
