- Description: Karsten Rinck, a trained lorry mechanic from Steinkirchen, near Hamburg, Germany, set off on 1 May 2021 to walk through Europe to improve his mental health, with the aim of visiting 40 countries. Walking under the name "Mütze on Tour" and accompanied by his dog Lotte, he pushes a trolley carrying his essentials. Wikipedia cites his walk through 30 European countries in its list of longest walks, citing Jean Béliveau as one of his inspirations
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Mütze
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://muetzeontour.blog/
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: "Karsten Walks His Way Around Europe to a Better State of Mind." Clare Champion, 18 August 2022.
- Description: Peter Root and Mary Thompson set off from Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, in 2011, with plans to cycle around the world. After traveling through the roads of Europe, the Middle East, and China, they were struck by a pickup truck on February 13, 2013, in Thailand, and were killed instantly. Their blog 'Two on Four Wheels' collects the final testimonies of the unfortunate couple
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: UK, Inglese, Anglais
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/18/british-cyclists-killed-thailand
- Multimedia: https://vimeo.com/twoonfourwheels
We are Mary Thompson and Peter Root. At 5.00pm on the 12th July 2011 we got the boat to France with loads of stuff and two bikes. We’ve created this website to document our adventures along the way.
- Description: Dario Rucco, a Milanese entrepreneur, decided in 2002 to change his life and embarked on a six-month journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego in South America to Alaska. The means of transportation used were, wherever possible, public land and sea transport
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rucco D., Da capo a capo : dalla Terra del Fuoco in Alaska in autobus, Greco&Greco, 2005.
- Description: Romina Maffeis and Francesco Riva, who set off in January 2009 from Bangkok on a tandem bicycle, headed for Origlio (Switzerland)
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Switzerland, Svizzera, Suisse
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Multimedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZCJHkQnkjE
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Riva F., Maffeis R., Hello byebye, La Regione Ticino, 11.04.2009. Riva F., Maffeis R., Là dove finiva la Cina, La Regione Ticino, 07.07.2009.
- Description: A journey of 67'000 miles in 1947-48 by bicycle and on foot
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: -
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rosdail J. H., Biking alone around the world, Hicksville, Exposition Press, 1973.
- Description: Italian journalist and writer Paolo Rumiz has turned travel into a narrative tool for exploring the identities, borders, and memories of Europe and the Mediterranean. His journeys, often undertaken by slow and marginal means – bicycle, local trains, vintage cars, ferries – focus on observation and listening to peripheral voices. From the post-Yugoslav Balkans to the Central European Danube, from Italian mountain ranges to the eastern borders of the European Union, Rumiz has crafted a personal geography grounded in encounter and storytelling
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1947-
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Rumiz
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1236933
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rumiz, P. (2002) Tre uomini in bicicletta. Milano: Feltrinelli.
Ciascuno ha le sue spiegazioni per la malattia insana dell'andar su ruote, perché infinite sono le esperienze alternative che la bici riesce a sintetizzare. C'é il viaggio come leggerezza, come nomadismo esistenziale ed eliminazione del superfluo, raccontato per esempio da Marco Aime nell'attraversamento del Sahel. Ci sono la lentezza e la memoria, descritte da Giulio Mozzi, scrittore padovano che ha percorso l'Italia a piedi. Ci sono la fuga e la solitudine negli elementi, come ha saputo dire quel lupo solitario che è lo skipper Paolo Rizzi dopo un naufragio in mezzo all'Atlantico. O il viaggio come introspezione, il pellegrinaggio talvolta penitenziale di Werner Herzog e Peter Handke.
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- Description: Goldie Robbins from Knox County, Indiana, traveled through the West and Midwest of the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. She used a mule-drawn wagon named 'Mule Train traveling America
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Yellowstone Pete
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: USA
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Wagon, Carro, Char
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: USA
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Mule Train traveling America
- Description: Heinz Rox-Schulz was dubbed by "Der Spiegel" as the "König der Globetrotter", the king of globetrotters. This was thanks to the travels he embarked on from the early fifties of the twentieth century. He documented his feats with videos and books; among the most significant, "Ohne Geld um die Welt" published in 1956. In the seventies, he founded the Abenteuer Museum
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: Rox
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Germany, Germania, Allemagne
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: 1921-2004
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Various, Diversi, Différents
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Rox-Schulz
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1600839
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Rox-Schulz H., Ohne Geld um die Welt, Bertelsmann, 1956.
- Description: Patrice and Françoise Ryder set off on a tandem journey around the world on October 4, 1978. They say goodbye to their family in Paris, on the Champs-Élysées, and begin pedaling eastward. They cross Switzerland, northern Italy, and head down the Yugoslav coast, but mechanical issues and bad weather force them to stop in Dubrovnik for Christmas. From there, they decide to take a ferry to Greece to avoid the snow in Montenegro. They pass through Corfu, reach Athens, and then fly to Israel. Unable to cross Jordan, Iraq, and Iran due to political reasons, they fly to Cyprus and then on to Pakistan. In Karachi, a new chapter of their journey begins: Asia. From Lahore, they cycle to New Delhi and, on September 22, 1979, they cross the Himalayas to enter Nepal. They reach Kathmandu and later fly to Bangkok. After a second trip through Thailand, they continue by bike toward the Cambodian border, but the Khmer Rouge crisis forces them to change course. They head south and, in June 1980, enter Malaysia and then Singapore. They fly to Darwin, Australia, to begin a new leg of the journey: crossing the continent from north to south while raising funds for charity. They sleep in the bush, marvel at the endless Australian landscapes and the country’s natural beauty. The article published in 1981 in the Australian magazine Trochos reflects on their journey after 900 days on the road and 18'300 kilometers traveled
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: Bike, Bicicletta, Vélo
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Trochos: the magazine for Melbourne's touring cyclists. No.7, May 1981
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Museum of Travel and Tourism is a virtual museum dedicated to travel and tourism, founded in 2016. It began as a research platform focused on the biographies of women and men travelers from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and has gradually expanded to include contemporary journeys.
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