Anyone with itchy feet – but especially feet that yearn to make their own way across the world – will appreciate Mirjam Wouters. She is a woman born for the road. Brought up on family cycling and in-line skating trips, Mirjam has independently hiked and biked across much of Europe and is now pedalling from Ireland to Australia. Current location: Tibet. Her blog is a great armchair read for anyone who’d rather be somewhere else. Namely, with two wheels, a tent and a whole lot of kilometres to leave behind. And she’s just about clocked 10,000 of those. Along the way she’s met Tajiki truck drivers, made porridge with milk straight from the cow, been given Easter eggs by strangers, bedded down in an Iranian penthouse and woken up to the above view from her tent. If you need a reminder to live your life, this could be it.
