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In June 2022 I took on the inaugural Transalp 1200, a bike ride through northern Italy, Austria and Slovenia. The 1250km event started and finished in Verona and took in the South Tirol, the Sillian and Julian Alps along the way.

Maldonado

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The radio this morning was highlighting the plight of UK nationals stranded abroad in the current crisis. A lady was on the phone from Puerto Maldonado, deep in the Peruvian jungle worried about her chances of getting out of the country before all repatriation flights are stopped. A very tricky situation for those involved and had me reflecting of my own trip there back in 2018.

Up it until very recently it was easy to jump on a plane and travel anywhere in the world, safe in the knowledge that global systems of communication, finance and food distribution would keep us fully insulated from any major hardship. I wonder how we will view such travel in future now we have had a glimpse of how quickly and easily these things can unravel.

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