Simon Parker
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2022 BGTW Travel Broadcaster of the Year. ⛵️ & 🚲 China to London. Award winning Earth Cycle TV show on Amazon Prime. Next book published July 2024.
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Coming to a theatre near you this autumn:
#RideAcrossAmerica
LIVE.
A night of adventure, with stories, maps, films and readings, followed by a Q&A.
Tickets on sale now. 🚴♂️🇺🇸
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VIDEO: A coconut crab climbing a tree! On an isolated Pacific island.
#travel
@TahitiTourismAU
#travel
#TravelTuesday
#animals
#wildlife
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Congratulations on the success of last night’s
#MatchInAfrica
@rogerfederer
- and thanks for your time this morning in the
#CapeTown
☀️My BBC radio interview will be appearing in the next week or two. We talk:
#tennis
#Africa
#Wimbledon
and playing the piano in retirement... 🎹
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In today’s
@theipaper
I’m arguing that
#HS2
should be scrapped in favour of a cycling and hiking superhighway between Land’s End and John o’ Groats. We should be striving to slow down, rather than speeding up.
#LEJOG
#cycling
#RidingOut
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Britain by Bike ✅: 1,307 miles. 29 days. Shetland to Land’s End. Time for a hot bath. Thanks for following along!
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#BritainByBike
✅ 3,427 miles cycled around pandemic Britain. From The Flugga, Shetland, to Bishop Rock, Scilly, and back again. Time for a rest.
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Here's the final cover of my book - Riding Out - published April 21st 2022. This week, proof copies are going out to book shops and my kind friends who will read it first.
3,427 miles, from Shetland to Scilly, and back again.
A journey of love, loss and new beginnings.
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I say this as a journalist:
Stop watching the news, listening to the radio and reading the papers for a while.
Your mood will improve.
#Headspace
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Ride complete.
4,373 miles cycled in ten weeks from Cape Flattery, WA to Key West, FL.
Hundreds of interviews with people in 11 states, about many of the biggest issues facing the USA ahead of next year's election.
Fractured States out 2024, published by
@septemberbooks
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It’s 0545 and I’m going to try and get to Land’s End! My bike is broken, I feel broken, and now my phone has decided to stop charging! So no maps - I’ll just have to follow my compass southwest and hope for the best.🤦🏻♂️One final push. 10 hours until sunset.
#BritainByBike
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The past six months have left me feeling lethargic and frustrated. So I've come up with my next big adventure. On October 7th I'm setting off on a 1,500 mile solo cycling and camping expedition. The true UK end-to-end. Northernmost point of Shetland to southernmost Jersey.
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**PUBLICATION DAY**
#RidingOut
is now on shelves, in actual book shops! 🤩
It’s about my 3,427 mile journey around pandemic Britain and a discussion about mental health, grief and finding ways through tough times in life.
I hope you enjoy it.
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Travel Broadcaster of the Year at the
@TravWriters
awards night🤩
I’m over the moon. Thank you, judges.
You can watch some of my latest film projects here:
I’ll be
@WTM_London
today speaking with new collaborators. Big plans for 2023… 🎥 🏔 🚲
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I'm excited - and nervous - to reveal that my first book, Riding Out, will be published in Spring 2022.
It's about a 3,427-mile bike ride around Britain at one of the toughest periods in its history.
It's also a very personal journey through loss, love and anxiety.
🇬🇧🚵♂️💕
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I’m court side in
#CapeTown
for the
@matchinafrica
between
@rogerfederer
and
@RafaelNadal
. Tonight there will 50,000 people in here! A new world record!
#MatchinAfrica
#tennis
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95% of travel writing is politely feigning interest in things that will never make it into your final story.
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Day 6,
#BritainByBike
, 26 miles: Kirkwall,
#Orkney
to Skara Brae. Strong north easterly winds, but a great night’s camping on the west coast at Skail Bay.
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It’s farewell to Orkney. Now awaiting the ferry that will take me to Shetland to finish this big adventure.
#BritainByBike
@TelegraphTravel
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Photo courtesy of
@dunnjons
- this is the dog otter we tracked with
@shetlandnature
yesterday. What a beauty. As exhilarating a moment as seeing lions, elephants and rhinos in Africa. This is on our doorstep - at 60 degrees north.
#Shetland
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The stage is set in
#CapeTown
for
@rogerfederer
V
@RafaelNadal
. The biggest attendance in
#tennis
history, 50,000 plus!
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Congratulations to the whole team behind this. Makes all those soggy nights in tents and faffing around with damp cameras and smashed drones worth it. Night on the beers ASAP. Sorry to break this to you, but I've got ideas for the next couple of series...
Delighted that
@SimonWIParker
and ourselves have just won best broadcast programme at the
@travelmediawrds
for our Earth Cycle TV series on
@PrimeVideo
- brilliant thanks!
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In this Saturday’s
@timestravel
you can read about how I walked the length of Shetland. 90 miles from south to north, along a proposed new walking route. In the meantime, however, you can watch the film. Thanks to
@CatherineMMunro
and
@shetlandnature
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I'm cycling the length of Britain for
@Telegraph
@TelegraphTravel
- taking the temperature of the nation during strange times. What do you think of my camping spot in Orkney?
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Today I unleashed my inner Forest Gump. But instead of running, and running, I kept cycling, and cycling. Through all weathers in Montana. 12 hours: 90 miles. Biggest day so far. Got some great interviews for the book, too. 🚴 🇺🇸
#FracturedStates
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Canoe safari, on the Zambezi, Zambia. Elephants enjoying a drink at the end of a warm day. This is up there with the coolest things I’ve ever done.
@TelegraphTravel
@africaexclusive
@Journeysmiths
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The sun has just come up in Shetland. Set to be a cracker of a (6 hour) day. Mild, calm, no rain. 😃 ☀️
#ShetlandTrueNorth
#ScotlandisCalling
#Shetland
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Chuffed to see I'm up for four awards at this year's
@TravWriters
end of year bash on Sunday, including Broadcaster of the Year and the narrative book award for Riding Out. Thanks to all the editors and cinematographers for your help in 2022.
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It’s paperback publication day!
Three months earlier than planned, because the hardback sold out.
Riding Out has also just been sold in China, taking current global sales to 8,000+ 😃
News on book 2 in the next few weeks… 🚴 🇺🇸
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After 5 months of lockdown, writing and planning, I’ve finally made it to the sunny Isles of Scilly for
@Telegraph
#BritainByBike
Part 2. For the next 5-6 weeks I’ll be reporting at the gentle speed of a bicycle, seeing 🇬🇧 bounce back.
@TelegraphTravel
@visitIOS
@VisitBritain
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Last night I stayed in one of the 72 Hour Cabins in
@visitsweden
- a place of utter calm, surrounded by nature. A good spot for midnight fishing and drinking beers. The sun only set for a few hours. This video was shot at 11pm! 🇸🇪
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Cheerio, Shetland. I've had a marvellous time - and I'll be back again. I've got a few more islands to see, and people to catch up with. If you don't fancy cycling the length of Britain, then this section would make a wonderful standalone week's hols. Now, onto Orkney.
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I’m on
#Foula
,
#Shetland
,
#Scotland
- staying with the island’s 30 human inhabitants, a few hundred sheep and dive bombing Skuas! A truly epic place. To the north, nothing until the North Pole! This is GB’s “most remote, inhabited island.”
#adventure
#travel
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First review in of my book, from my girlfriend:
"It reads like an actual book."
As it stands, this is going on the cover.
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Exactly 2 years ago today I started a bonkers project. A journey that would take me 3,427 miles around Britain. It became a regular
@Telegraph
column, a
@Summersdale
book and a UK theatre tour. Time flies when you're having fun! Soon to get started on the next crazy idea...
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What a day! And what a week! And a milestone to celebrate: 1,000 miles completed. About a quarter of the way to Key West, Florida.
Montana is spectacular. 80 miles today and I think my favourite day so far. Tomorrow I’m taking a much needed day off.
I’ll be back Monday. ✌️
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Before the pandemic,I’d managed an anxiety disorder for a decade, but the past year has been very tough at times. In today’s
@Telegraph
@TelegraphTravel
I’m talking about my 3,000 mile bike ride around Britain, and why it felt like what I HAD to do.
#BritainByBike
🚲 ⛺️ 🇬🇧 😷
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Quite hard to get any considerable miles done when I’m stopping to admire the view so much, but...
#Shetland
#Scotland
, you’re beautiful!
#BritainByBike
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Day 27,
#BritainByBike
, Bristol to Tiverton, 87 miles. I’m a filthy mess, and fell off today in Taunton. Pushed it hard until after dark but found a warm B&B. Tough out here. That’s 1,163 miles on the clock. Early start tomorrow - looks ☀️ but ❄️. Almost there.
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The final day of
#BritainByBike
. 35 miles done. Roughly 25 to go. When I left here 9 months ago it was grim. Today I have a tailwind and sunshine. Hoping to reach The Flugga about 3pm.
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Proud to hear that Earth Cycle - the five-part TV series that sees me cycle 2,000 miles the length of Scandinavia - and has been broadcast in 20+ countries, has made it onto the Broadcast Programme of the year category shortlist in the
@travelmediawrds
. Currently planning S2...
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Very sparse out here. Struggling to reach regular towns for food and water. But good copy for the book. Having to rack up some 90-100 mile days this week, 10-12 hour rides. 😬
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#BritainByBike
, Day 30, Blyth to Bamburgh, 53 miles. Stunning coastline. Amazing people. Tailwind. Tonight I’m resting my head in the grounds of Bamburgh Castle, overlooking the cricket pitch. Tomorrow I’ll head into Scotland. Loving this trip!
@Telegraph
@TelegraphTravel
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Home for the night. The 72 Hour Glass Cabins. Known to reduce stress by 70% in just three days. Hoping for 23.333333 in the single day and night I’m here.
#Sweden
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#BritainByBike
, Day 40, St Margaret’s Hope to Kirkwall, 18 miles. I thought I was winding down, but the headwind today was the worst I’ve faced so far. I limped along at 4mph. Tomorrow I’ll rest and write, before catching the overnight ferry to Shetland.
@TelegraphTravel
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A dream realised. In the dark days of lockdown I wandered past
@WoodstockBooks
every day, wondering if my random scribbles might ever make it into the window. And today, wandering to the coffee shop, it caught my eye!
#RidingOut
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Cycling in Orkney. An amazing place to ride and camp. Eager to get back next year for more of the same. I'd love to see it in midsummer.
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Despite all of this, please spare a thought for the press office still trying to promote International Hummus Day 2020.
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Britain by Bike, Twitter Q&A. I've received hundreds of questions during the past month that I've not had time to respond to. About kit, route, why, how, who.
Sorry if I've missed you. But I have a long train journey today. Add them to this thread. I'll start with some FAQs:
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The magic of literature. Picking up a book with a subject matter you know nothing about, then letting the author whisk you off on a new journey of discovery. Orchid Summer by
@dunnjons
is a joy. 👏🏻 ❤️
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#BritainByBike
, Day 42, Lerwick to Hillswick, 36 miles. My penultimate day on this journey. I’m now just 60 miles from The Flugga - the top of Britain. I love Shetland, it feels surreal to be back. I never knew that I’d go full circle.
#Shetland
#Scotland
@TelegraphTravel
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This isn’t “character building” anymore. I’m happy with my character and I want this over.
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Dear Scotland, thank you for this beautiful, calorie and carb rich creation... the macaroni cheese pie!
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I’ve been asked to go “wild swimming” about a dozen times on this trip. Every time I’ve chickened out. Today I’ve finally taken the plunge in Lerwick. I made it to my shoulders for about 10 seconds. I call it wild wading. 🥶 🧊 ❄️ ⛄️
#BritainByBike
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Two years ago today I was sat in Shetland, having completed my 3,500 mile 🚲 journey around Britain.
That trip became Riding Out, my first book! Thank you to everyone who has bought a copy.
Tomorrow I’ll have news on BOOK TWO!
I set off in late August…
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@OUFCOfficial
V
@NUFC
- my prediction from the Arctic. Northernmost
@OxfordMailOUFC
fan in the world?
@OUFCFanbase
#FACup
78*N.
#OUFC
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It's time for me to switch everything off and focus solely on writing. Back in a few months. Thank you to everyone who encouraged me across the USA, and apologies for not responding to all the messages I've received. Happy holidays, happy new year, see you on the other side.
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I was starting to think that all American food was atrocious. Then I discovered Southern barbecue!
GAME CHANGER
🇺🇸 by 🚲
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Thrilled to scoop the best UK feature award at last night's
@TravWriters
awards in London. It was for a
@thetimes
@timestravel
story about walking the length of Shetland, my favourite corner of Britain. Massive thanks to
@CatherineMMunro
and
@shetlandnature
.
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Chasing otters with
@shetlandnature
and
@dunnjons
on Yell, Shetland. A cold and blustery day, but we got lucky in the end. Beautiful creatures in an epic corner of Britain.
#ShetlandTrueNorth
#ScotlandisCalling
#travel
#Shetland
#Scotland
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Looks nice, but a stiff headwind and never ending hills. After yesterday off, today is turning into an arduous slog. 😥 Montana is beautiful but a pain to navigate by bicycle.
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I'm sailing & cycling 15,000 miles -
@visitchina
to
@visitlondon
via
@VisitTheUSA
, starting March 20!
@ClipperRace
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Just got tracked down by Russ and his mates. He’s been following my journey via Twitter. Nice to know someone is tuned in!
#BritainByBike
@TelegraphTravel
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"The islands enjoyed an unexpected fallow year, and 2020 will be remembered as the halcyon summer of camping, surfing and beers under the stars."
My
@TelegraphTravel
dispatch from Orkney and the Highlands is out this week.
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Journalism: never going to make you a millionaire, but you get to do some very cool stuff!
#BritainByBike
@TelegraphTravel
@TelegraphTravel
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Day 1,
#BritainByBike
, Part 2, St Mary’s, Scilly. 10 miles. A sunny but windy day here, after a very choppy crossing! I’ve met some great people living an enviable lifestyle. Tomorrow: St Agnes.
#cycling
#pandemic
#Britain
for
@TelegraphTravel
@Telegraph
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Thank you so much
@Levisonwood
for your kind words about my book
#RidingOut
. I've always loved watching, and reading about your adventures and I'm honoured that you took the time to read mine!
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Mum and dad moving house after 35 years, all my old stuff has been dumped on me. Finding some 90s gems: the spud gun.
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Sunset, on the banks of the Zambezi. A much needed day to rest and write after covering 1,000+ KM in the past two weeks via boats, 4x4s and small planes. Tomorrow: Victoria Falls and Zimbabwe.
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#BritainByBike
enters its final week. Over 3,000 miles already cycled. Big push to the finish line.
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Thank you, Scotland. After 726 miles, that's a wrap. Time to enter England. I think I must be about half way to the Isles of Scilly by now? I've met fishermen, musicians and astronomers, plus a whole bunch more. My next
@TelegraphTravel
article is out later today.
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Ok, so now I’m really tapering off. Was going well today, so decided to keep going to the place I was hoping to reach tomorrow. Buying myself another day off. I’m now on the south side of Miami and just 156 miles from Key West!? I’m going to really enjoy this week.
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I’m stood at the very top of Britain, looking out to the Muckle Flugga Lighthouse,
#Shetland
. Mile zero of
#BritainByBike
.
@TelegraphTravel
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In less than three weeks' time I head to the US, to start work on my next book, Fractured States.
For 10 weeks I'll be CYCLING from Cape Flattery to Key West.
Well, that's the plan, at least.
As the US gears up to the 2024 election, I'm heading off to find the REAL America.
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This week I’ve been cycling around Germany’s Black Forest, researching a story. It’s been chilly! But have found plenty of hearty food and booze to keep me warm. I’m now beginning a 12 hour train journey home, which should be rather lovely, then it’s two weeks in England! 😃
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As a restless teenager, I’d spend hours studying maps - searching for tiny spots of land in great oceans and remote corners of our planet. Today I head for Saint Helena - somewhere I’ve daydreamed about for 20 years!
#travel
#SaintHelena
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A significant milestone in this journey... crossing the Arctic Circle.
#travel
#TravelTuesday
#adventure
#cycling
#Lapland
#Sweden
#cold
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This spring, summer and autumn I'll be visiting theatres and festivals all over Britain to talk about my 3,500 mile journey during the pandemic.
Hopefully there's a venue nearby.
#RidingOut
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Impossible not to sound annoyingly smug with these tweets, but... very chuffed to be on the shortlist for the
@TravWriters
"Travel Broadcaster of the Year" award. Good luck to
@AaronMWriter
@FullerloveHeidi
@BestBitsWorld
and
@sarahleetravels
.
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