After jetting to Namibia for a gravel race, Joe Laverick stays on for a to a tour – and finds himself in a land of perspective-shifting immensity

As we sipped our G&Ts and watched the sun glistening on the water in the late evening, we reflected on the events that had brought us to this beautiful spot. A few hours ago, we’d resigned ourselves t

If you’re driving north, be careful of the reindeer,” said Father Christmas as I sat beside him at Santa Claus’s Main Post Office in Rovaniemi. “We have 230,000 reindeer here in Finland,” he said, “bu

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I haven’t seen Bill and Jim for more than 20 years and making a bike ride the centrepiece of our reunion has added a whole new level of anxieties to the regular pile of macho, middle-aged insecurities