Colin Martin - Around the world on a Moulton bicycle.
Since 1970, when my journey started, the population of our planet has doubled. International travel was often an uncertain adventure. No emails, no mobile phones, and landlines were expensive and very unreliable. The only lifeline to family and friends was by mail via Poste Restante. Even that was hit-and-miss. Correspondence would often go astray and, on a bicycle with no schedule, the problem was exacerbated. In third world countries postal workers would remove stamps from envelopes and sell them on the black market. Consequently many of my letters never never found their way home. Perhaps, nearly four decades on, there are still aerogrammes sitting on a dusty shelf in Herat, Afghanistan, waiting patiently for me to collect them.

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