Black Dog Bicycling

I was pleased to be waved through the border crossing at Dibba. I was pleased not to have to pay for a new Omani visa. I was less pleas...

Where the north-eastern extremity of the Arabian Peninsula tapers into the mouth of the Persian Gulf geography gets exciting and political b...

Goodbye metropolis, hello desert. Negotiating the patchwork of four-lane M4 impressions which masquerade as quiet backroads on maps of Dub...

Leaving the remnants of the Shahs final excesses behind I cycled across the plain and through the mountains of the lower Zagros that separat...