Millward wrote a book about his impromptu adventure, it being launched in Australia as Going Postal, and now retitled for the rest of the world simply as ‘ The Long Ride Home,’Ī book, which in his own words doesn’t try and glamorise the realities Poland before finally, just as winter was about to set in, reaching the To China, then on through Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and The Himalayas and the second highest road in the world (18,000 feet), in

Refusal of an Iranian visa forcing him through Northern Pakistan, over Malaysia and Thailand before finding a way around Burma and on to the Months, seeing him pass from Darwin to East Timor, along Indonesia to This journey from Sydney to London took Millward nine On the bike I already had, in the clothes I already owned, and made it I had a return ticket toĮngland, but was in no rush to get there and so I just set off riding, Suddenly told my visa was coming to an end.

Millward explains ‘I’d been out in Australia for nine months when I was The first part of the adventure took Millward from Sydney to London, aĢ3,000 mile journey undertaken after only two days of planning. Travelling at an average cruising speed of 37mph and passing through 19 The Mansfield-born adventurer covered a total of 29,000 miles, 6, 2012 - Englishman Nathan Millward has completed his round the worldĪdventure on a retired Australian post bike, riding it from SydneyĪustralia to the American city of San Francisco.

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