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Spoke Yokes: cycling around the world

Spoke Yokes: cycling around the world

By: Mark Graham & Ellie O'Byrne
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Mark and Ellie are cycling around the world. Join their adventure as they share weekly diary updates from the road. Bears, typhoons, camels drinking each other's wee, and lots of crisps; this podcast is much more than a cycling diary. The ups are hilly, the lows are swampy, but for every puncture there's a patch.2025 Social Sciences Travel Writing & Commentary
Episodes
  • Week 12 - By the egg stones of Zongle Duck

    Week 12 - By the egg stones of Zongle Duck
    Apr 12 2026
    5000km of cycling completed, with over 1,000km of Turkish Black Sea coast still to go, and Spoke Yokes are headed to Ankara to sort visas, but not before running the gauntlet of the willy fish.
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    18 mins
  • Week 11 - Talkin' Türkiye

    Week 11 - Talkin' Türkiye
    Jan 24 2026

    A dose of Turkish delight as Mark and Ellie cross the Bosporus, and a major milestone as they enter Asia Minor. Wild dogs and cups tea abound.

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    22 mins
  • Week 10 - Bye, bye, Happyland

    Week 10 - Bye, bye, Happyland
    Dec 18 2025

    Dodging massages in a thermal pool and a visit to an eerie abandoned theme park during their one week journey through Bulgaria sees Ellie and Mark reach the border with Turkey. The major milestone this week is reaching the Black Sea, which they find out is both salty and cold.
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    18 mins
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