Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob A. Riis

This is not my... Hero

Slow travel

Ah - the inimitable Ed Gillespie.

Lucky bu*ger got to head off round the world...

Gay drug smuggling, Japanese rockerbillies and eternal damnation - slow is definitely the way to go!

In March, Ed and his girlfriend headed off on an epic journey around the globe without 'passing over it all in an aluminium sausage'.

Check out his highs and lows and get a little bit inspired...

(HEALTH WARNING - you will probably get quite considerably jealous. It may be advisable not to read this if you are having a bad day at work. Or, I guess, a good idea if you are in need of a nudge to hand in your notice.)

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