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Helen and Sam are cycle touring around Europe for a year and documenting their adventures.

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'Slow Motion: A Year by Bike' is an insight into the lifestyle of long distance cycletouring. https://t.co/iyO8wUVqBq Shown at @ShefAdvFilmFest #cycletouring #indiefilmmaking #AdventureTravel

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This wasn't our biggest adventure, but it helped us stay sane in the first UK lockdown. We'll likely do the same during #Lockdown2 only better equipped for the cold. Watch the film for inspiration, and enjoy a lockdown tour of your own!

[Samuel Hollywood-Summers @shsSoundDesign]

Need something interesting (and safe) to do over the next four weeks of lockdown? Try a bicycle tour where you camp in your own garden. The weather is a bit colder now, but you can just wrap up warmer! https://t.co/fPgu6SpwnS #Lockdown2 #cycletour #lockdownadventures

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What's the weirdest place you ever pitched your tent? In week 42 of our bike trip we camped outside this hospital in Croatia.

We're making the most of the lockdown and catching up with the blog: Week 42, heading… https://t.co/Q81MAs57KZ

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New blog post: Week 41 of our #cycletour around Europe and Morocco. We cycled and camped in #Montenegro #Croatia and passed through the tiny coast of #bosniayherzegovina LINK: https://t.co/C3w94RF27O
#bicycletouring
#wildcamping
#travelbloging
#maketheworldyourhome

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Easter weekend + ☀️= time for a bike tour!
This short circular route from our house along the Rhine and Lahn cycle routes was an awesome way to get to know our new local area. We're… https://t.co/nFbZ8EJ4qK

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Easter weekend + ☀️= time for a bike tour!
The Lahn river cycle route was pretty and peaceful, and offered us a secluded viewpoint in which to set up camp and enjoy the view as we cooked… https://t.co/4Rtq82KoWn

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Easter weekend + ☀️= time for a bike tour!
We took many opportunities to stop and enjoy a refreshing beer and some ice cream!
#biketouring #cycletouring #cycletheworld #worldbybike… https://t.co/TNq9HjafWR

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Easter weekend + ☀️= time for a bike tour!
We found a perfect spot to pitch our tent on the Rhine river!
#biketouring #cycletouring #cycletheworld #worldbybike #microadventure #adventure… https://t.co/YgJ6kwjvIi

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Easter weekend + ☀️= time for a bike tour!
On our first tour together of this year, we took four days to cycle around our local region of Germany. We set off from our home in Mainz, and… https://t.co/08tqY7UBcz

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New blog post: week 40 of our European tour: Greece, Albania and Montenegro. Storms, broken bridges and random acts of generosity. Another wonderful week on the road.… https://t.co/xcGLu8K2WD

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New blog post: Week 40. Greece, Albania and Montenegro. Storms, broken bridges and random acts of generosity. Another wonderful week on the road.
https://t.co/OzRSXEtccM
#Greece #Albania #Montenegro #cycletour #saddlestories #adventuretravel #wildcamping

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You can now watch a short film of our adventures cycling around #Europe and #Morocco. Find it over on YouTube. Teaser below. More in-depth videos on the individual countries we travelled through to follow. #cycletour #adventuretravel #camping #saddlestories #budgettravel

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New blog: Week 39. Back on the bikes. Cycling in Greece is fantastic: ride in the early morning, hit the beach for the sunny hours, perhaps ride again in the evening and then find somewhere to sleep.
https://t.co/8Aajq2s3rm
#cycletour #greece #bicycle #wildcamping #gyros

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This week we made our film available online, but we also have a new blog for you: Week 38 was spent living it up in Greece, making friends with stray puppies, eating gyros, and watching… https://t.co/FDEc1JC969

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Today we made our film available on YouTube, but we also have a new blog for you: Week 38 was spent living it up in Greece, making friends with stray puppies, eating gyros, and watching crickets eat each other (gross). Enjoy: https://t.co/lh53PmDMiS

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Thanks @ShefAdvFilmFest for inviting us to show our film 'Slow Motion: A Year by Bike' and share our tips for epic bikepacking adventures. We had an awesome weekend and hope to have inspired a few people to hit to road for a two-wheeled adventure
#bikepacking #bmcshaff #indiefilm

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Thanks for the kind words Dan. We hope you enjoy your next adventure! :)

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Thanks Tina, we hope to have inspired you to hit the road! :)

[Tina Page @trailhobo_tina]

A packed house with Helen and Sam of @saddlestories sharing top tips from their 11 month bike packing epic @ShefAdvFilmFest #bmcshaff #ShAFF2019 #bikepacking https://t.co/pmuQ2SsVu3

[Samuel Hollywood-Summers @shsSoundDesign]

On our way to Sheffield to give a talk about epic #bikepacking adventures at @ShefAdvFilmFest and screen our film Slow Motion: A Year by Bike. The event is sold out, se we're looking forward to enthusing a room full of future cycletourists with our @saddlestories

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Blog post: Week 37 of our cycle tour we said goodbye to Italy and hopped on a boat to Greece where we enjoyed so many beautiful sunsets! https://t.co/zDCOohykm1
#biketour #biketouring… https://t.co/cSDfsG0LRK