The Dom way round: November 2014

Saturday, 29 November 2014

Graham Field took this picture of Charley Boorman snagging a copy of Gone Riding at the Motorcyle Live show at the NEC in Birmighman.

I hope he likes it.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Geoff Hill, who writes for The Mirror newspaper has given my book a little plug at the bottom of this article online.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/honda-vfr800x-reviewed-finest-incarnation-4625823

Meanwhile, I'm looking forward to my copy of 2-Wheeled Wanderlust Magazine popping through the door. It's got a picture of me and an elephant on the front and an article by me inside. http://www.2wheeledwanderlust.com/

I'm also getting ready to spend Sunday 30th November book signing at the NEC Motorcycle-Live Show (Birmigham UK).

Saturday, 15 November 2014

Nearly time for the UK's largest Motorcycle show at Birmighman's NEC. (22nd to 30th Nov) I'm fortunate enough to have been asked to book sign on the excellent Overland Magazine stand. Gone Riding will be on sale all week and I'll be there on Sunday 30th.
If you haven't yet read my book why not come along and grab a copy. If you have read it then come along, say hi and grab a copy of either Graham Field or Sam Manicom's books. Plus a copy of the overland mag of course.

Hello

Hi. My name is Dom and in July 2010 I rode a motorcycle (partly) around the world. I started in Alaska and headed for Panama. It took me 6 months and I covered 21,000 miles. I then shipped my bike from Panama to South Africa. I returned to the UK for February and in March 2011 I flew to South Africa. Starting in Cape Town I took three months (and 9,000 miles) to get to Nairobi.

As well as riding a bike I stopped off and did some voluntary work along the way. In Mexico I worked on a turtle rescue project for two weeks and in Costa Rica at a Sloth Sanctuary for three weeks. In Cape Town I taught for three weeks in a Primary school in a township.

In North America my wife, Tracy, came out for three weeks and also joined me for two months in Central America.

I returned to the UK in June 2011. Although I'd kept a blog (obviously) throughout the trip I honestly had no desire to try to write a book. But that changed. Within days of getting home I started writing. Then in Autumn 2011 I found out about The Ted Simon Foundation and applied to be a Jupiter's Traveller. Unbelievably they accepted me and I starting a whole new, and much more frightening, adventure... Trying to write a book about my trip.

'Gone Riding' was published in November 2013. Signed copies are available direct from me at www.domgiles.co.uk. The book is also on Amazon where you can also get the kindle edition. There is lots more information about my trip and the book on my website where you'll find links to my Facebook page and Twitter account.

I now use this blog to write about my current bike trips. In 2013 we went to Scandinavia for the summer and in 2014 we went to Romania. Summer 2015 was spent solo around the Balkans. In July 2016 I went to Poland, the Baltic and Finland.

In the summer of 2017 we went to Northern Spain and France and in 2018 we went to Ireland.

I sold my bike in January 2019!!!