When Lucy came across an advert for 'vegetarians/vegans to cycle round the world' she answered simply because she met the dietary requirements. Thus she found herself part of a group of people of varying degrees of eccentricity, who, as became apparent a few days into the trip, all had wildly differing ideas on what 'cycling round the world' meant.
Over the next two-and-a-half years Lucy pedalled about 30 000 miles with these strangers who became her closest companions. Together they unintentionally broke a shoot-on-sight curfew and thought they were being kidnapped; one got held up by the world's most incompetent bandits and another got run over by the slowest-moving animal on the road. In Pakistan Lucy discovered what it was like to be the only woman outside when being a woman outside was considered fairly obscene. They were inadvertently put into a trance by Indonesian dancers and accidentally became a star attraction in a Thai brothel.
They stood on glaciers and gazed past mountain-tops to the infinite blue beyond, while eagles flew by so close they could hear the wind in their feathers. They learnt to trust in strangers, live in the present and say 'thank you' in thirteen different languages.
Over the next two-and-a-half years Lucy pedalled about 30 000 miles with these strangers who became her closest companions. Together they unintentionally broke a shoot-on-sight curfew and thought they were being kidnapped; one got held up by the world's most incompetent bandits and another got run over by the slowest-moving animal on the road. In Pakistan Lucy discovered what it was like to be the only woman outside when being a woman outside was considered fairly obscene. They were inadvertently put into a trance by Indonesian dancers and accidentally became a star attraction in a Thai brothel.
They stood on glaciers and gazed past mountain-tops to the infinite blue beyond, while eagles flew by so close they could hear the wind in their feathers. They learnt to trust in strangers, live in the present and say 'thank you' in thirteen different languages.
