Tandem 10,000

We are Huw and Carolyn Thomas – ex-journalists turned TEFL teachers. Our home is in Cornwall, although we’ve spent the last couple of years teaching English in Portugal.

This will be our most ambitious tandem ride yet but not our first big trip. In 2004-5, we cycled about 6,000 miles around the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal.

Taking a break on the French Atlantic coast - June 2004

We met in Hampshire , where we both worked on local newspapers. We moved to Cornwall in 1997 and married in 1999. Huw joined ShelterBox in 2006 to manage the charity’s publicity & fundraising, later sending Carolyn to Pakistan as a ShelterBox Response Team member so she could report on the deployment for her newspaper!

BIKE, HISTORY & DIARIES

On this trip we’re riding an Orbit Routier tandem. For more about the bike and equipment, click here. To see why Carolyn had no choice about riding a tandem, click here.

For our video diaries from the trip so far, click here.

THANK YOUS

It would take up too much space to list everyone here who’s helped make our challenge possible but this journey would not be possible without the support of our sponsors Altura, the BA Great Britons programme – and all our kind hosts from Rotary and the cycling network Warmshowers. For more information, click here.

CONTACT US

You are welcome to contact us at tandem10@hotmail.co.uk – to return to the blog’s diary entries, click here – or on the blog title above.