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EDAM's Blogs
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What's Occurin' what's happened across EDAM recently.
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EDAM History records EDAM through the years.
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Jon's World Tour documents Jon's round-the-world trip, as he travels, showing text, pics and hand drawn images.
Fredrikstad to Bodo
The Geiranger road is even more amazing than the 51. It rises and falls, twists and turns. There’s snow in the verges. There’s not a breath of wind to ripple the mirror-glass surfaces of the fjords. And as if that wasn’t enough we’re soon approaching Geiranger fjord itself. It’s one of Norway’s most spectacular of the spectacular. Slartibartfast at his absolute best! A worthy award winner….
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5 days ago13 min read
The land of fire and ice...
An occasional 4x4 catches me up and passes me with a toot and a wave and a shower of gravel. We cross streams and narrow wooden bridges. Rocks thump against the sump-guard. The suspension bottoms whenever I hit a pothole.....
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Jun 2713 min read
Difficulties in Denmark!
Uhofligt ord!! I invent more Danish rude words.....
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Jun 178 min read
How to win friends and have real adventures.
Getting back to Hoek van Holland means I'm back where my 'Go South tour ended. This time I'm heading North...
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Jun 128 min read
To Scandinavia. But first….
I’m not entirely sure what I have let myself in for. I’ve never marshaled anything before. The online training course only took me 20 minutes....
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Jun 39 min read
There and back again….
A bit of family history, some Hitchcock, then heading home across the Channel and back to Scotland. By Jon Newey (retired Architect,...
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May 30, 20249 min read
We’ll always have Paris….
If I could ride 500km and I could ride 500 more…. By Jon Newey (retired Architect, Blood Bike rider, Adventure traveller) with Tigger...
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May 24, 20249 min read
Knobbly Pyrenees....
In which Tigger makes his way over the Pyrenees mountains and back into French-speaking territory.…. Zut alors! By Jon Newey (retired...
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May 17, 202418 min read
Of all the gin joints in all the towns…..
Ah, Casablanca. Bogart and Bacall. Play it again. Well, in this episode I’ll be in Casablanca, then playing Ceuta again, and then...
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May 10, 202413 min read
Sahara Desert to Tomboctou…..
Spoiler alert: I’m not actually riding Tigger to Tomboctou. Tomboctou is in Mali and Mali is a country that is currently out of bounds. I...
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May 3, 202417 min read
Into Africa…..
By Jon Newey (retired Architect, Blood Bike rider, Adventure traveller) with Tigger (Triumph Tiger 800 XRX) See the videos Is this the...
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Apr 26, 202413 min read
Spain-Portugal-Spain…..
By Jon Newey (retired Architect, Blood Bike rider, Adventure traveller) with Tigger (Triumph Tiger 800 XRX) See the videos What's going...
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Apr 19, 202410 min read
It’s all going south…..
By Jon Newey (retired Architect, Blood Bike rider, Adventure traveler) with Tigger (Triumph Tiger 800 XRX) Adventure travel, if I may...
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Apr 12, 20248 min read
Somme....
The next episode of my travels with Tigger is available on Youtube. In this episode we cross southern Germany and northern France and...
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Mar 23, 20241 min read
Grossglockner....
The next episode of my travels with Tigger is now available on Youtube, including a tour of Ljubljana, Lake Bled, and the Grossglockner...
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Mar 16, 20241 min read
Gladiators....
The next episode of my travels with Tigger is available on YT. In this episode Tigger and I are crossing the border from Montenegro into...
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Mar 8, 20241 min read
Sheep
The next episode of my travels with Tigger is available on Youtube! It's a longer episode, but it's jam-packed full of interesting stuff!...
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Mar 1, 20241 min read
Turkish Delight!
The eighth episode of my travels with Tigger is now on Youtube. In this episode we visit Troy and Assos and then start heading west,...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
Buzludzha...
The next episode of my travels with Tigger is now on Youtube... In this episode we are exploring more of Bulgaria, visiting the strange...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
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