The Overlanders

04/05/2024

We’re doing something a bit different next February.

A ride on the longest train in the world.

10 places only on this one. And they are only for the brave… 😉😎

https://theoverlanders.net/desert-express

27/02/2023

Our long running Morocco trips are back and running all year round now. Climb North Africa's highest mountain or sleep under the stars in the Sahara desert. Each trip is 5-7 days so no need to take a sabbatical to sign up! Get on board.
https://theoverlanders.net/kasbahs-%26-sahara-1

30/07/2022

The Hebrides serving Paradise on a plate as usual on this year's Ride Wild fully supported bike tour! 🚴‍♂️11 intrepid riders, 185 miles, 10 islands and lots of sheep 🐑
A couple more hills and we're there! 😉

28/01/2022

Morocco is open and we are on for March!😜
2 places available on the classic Maroc N Roll tour! £595 for 2 weeks including all accommodation. 16th - 29th March. 😎
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15/12/2021

11 islands, 8 days and 1 wild Ride Wild - Hebrides 2022!
We have just a few places left on our fully supported group cycling trips next summer.
2 places in July and 6 places in June!!
The best way to truly experience these wild islands is to Ride them. We'll carry your bags so you can enjoy the ride, and if it all gets too much we'll even carry you! 😉
Ride with us this summer. 🚴‍♀️👇
https://theoverlanders.net/ride-wild-the-hebrides

03/10/2021

One of our many happy riders from this summer's Hebridean Way adventure! Thanks for the review Jim! 🚴
Sign up now for next year! Dates in June and July available.
10 islands, 185 miles, 1 Ride Wild - Hebrides 2022

https://theoverlanders.net/ride-wild-the-hebrides

02/09/2021

Ride Wild Hebrides 2022 to be anounced soon! 🚲😉😎

27/07/2021

1 week to go until our first ever Ride Wild trip! 🌞😎🚴

The ever so talented
has created some artwork to show off our route!

Cycling 150 miles across 10 islands in the magical Outer Hebrides - fully supported with our trusty back up vehicle.
5 days, a couple of hills and one really big adventure!

Both trips full for this year but watch this space for updates and footage and get in touch when we do it all again in 2022. Whilst also bringing a brand new Ride Wild trip to you. 😉

27/05/2021

Final 40 miles of our reccie from Harris to Callanish in Lewis today! The sun shone bright for us.. and hills were climbed! ☀️🚲😎

25/05/2021

A wee spot of wild camping! 😎❤️

23/05/2021

Heading out to Barra for a wee reccie of the Hebrides. Preparations for our Ride Wild trip this August. Got to make sure it's all still there! 😎🚲👌

26/04/2021

12 weeks to go before we RIDE WILD on the Hebridean Way. Better get some practice in... 😎🚲

01/01/2021

New year brings new adventures!
Check out our new group cycling adventure in the stunning Outer Hebrides this summer!
RIDE WILD - The Hebridean Way
If you fancy exploring some of the best scenery in the world by bike, kayak and surf board then think about joining us this August. 😊🚴🐑

09/11/2020

Back in 2018 we ran one of our best ever trips - in South Africa.
We took a group of amazing people and travelled all over the country - dipping into Lesotho as a bonus. Safari Jam was truly awesome. 🌍
Africa will always be my favourite continent - for a myriad of different reasons. Not least, for the movement; the constant motion that exists among people; and the space, the emptiness. That mixed with beautiful, and organised chaos. The only place where time can stand still whilst life moves at breakneck speed. 🌍
In exactly 12 months from now we head down to Southern Africa again. Taking some of the same faces and some new adventureers to the next level of Safari shenanigans - in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.
🌍 Although I'm itching to get back I feel strangely patient now. Time has always been an entrapment of the West.
If 2020 has taught us anything it's that time itself is a relative term.

30/10/2020

45 years ago my father built me this beautiful green truck! It was my favourite childhood toy. My 4 year old has grown rather attached to it now. Is she too destined for a life on the road?! 😁🚎🚚🤔🌍

25/10/2020

This year we cycled across Scotland in 8 days. Next year we plan to cycle across Europe. It may take a bit longer - so let's get comfortable. 🚴🌍🚴🌍🚴

19/10/2020

1300 miles around Britain coast to coast in 7 days in an all electric car! ⚡ Longest trip our little electric motor has done so far and didn't she do well! Total cost - £38 ⚡ 😉Anyone thinking of going electric, go for it! 🌍 The future's here...the future's electric. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌍

01/10/2020

Set off spontaneously up a mountain today with the aim to reach the top of Buachaille Etive Mor or Beinn Dorain. Then the weather forecast changed dramatically for 'Heavy Snow and whiteouts' so we rerouted to a 10km section of the WHW.
Was a great hike but those mountains looked awfully sunny this afternoon! Should have just gone for it...😉
Was probably the last chance for us amateurs until next year!

27/09/2020

An amazing weekend of paddle sports in the Highlands at the brilliant ! Discovered I am best suited to a 'Goon stroke' when it comes to canoeing! No surprise there then. 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

25/09/2020

Great to get featured in The Overland Store's latest blog! 🚴 Brings back all the memories of our cycling adventure last month. Watch this space for group cycling trips and more wild rides. 🌍🚴😎

Adventure tour operators Barney and Lizzie, better known as The Overlanders, have been globetrotting for many years. Now also parents of young kids, many would imagine the adventuring would be curtailed. Well, The Overlanders had other ideas. Here's Barney on tackling the John Muir Way with kids in....

18/09/2020

We have been busy this month:

Two minibuses & One 4x4 - booked
Level 5 extreme rafting the Zambezi - booked
Okavango Delta hostel for 25 - booked
3 day self drive Safari in Namibia - booked
Boat Safari in Botswana - booked
Camping in the Namib Desert - booked

Hippo cage diving - booked?!!? 😁😂

'Safari Jam - The Next Level' has just 2 places left!
November 2021 is going to be awesome!

13/08/2020

That's the Blog completed and up in our bio! Final days of our ride included a wee bit of camping and a adrenaline fuelled ride down Princes Street in Edinburgh. Don't try that at home kids!! 🚴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😂
Watch this space for our next epic bike ride. 🌍 It might have something to do with Moomins we think! 🤔🤗

12/08/2020

The next level has arrived...
Where shall we go? 🚴😎😁

09/08/2020

Blog update alert! Anyone interested in reading the finer details of our trip across Scotland - parts 4 & 5 are up on our website now. Link in bio.
John Muir's 'Hut', a Spotty Dog and how to play 'the floor is Lava' for 2km uphill!
https://www.instagram.com/theoverlanders/

08/08/2020

8 days, 220km, 1 country, 2 amazing children, 3 shirts and no washing machine. 😫 Our first long distance bike ride is complete! 🚴 It's been amazing. Better than amazing. 😁
I have been fascinated and inspired by long distances cyclists for as long as I can remember. Having met a few in far flung corners of the earth I now feel like we may actually become one - or four! That feeling that one can go anywhere, or as far, as you want using just two things, both of which are free. 'Pressure and time. That's all it takes' just like Andy Dufresne. 😉 Watch this space for our next adventure, promising to be longer and more epic than this. 🌍 Certainly I intend to run some cycling overland tours in the future, and one thing is for sure - next time at least one of these two is pedalling! 😂🚴🌍😎

07/08/2020

The longest ride today! 28 miles from Edinburgh to North Berwick. We parked our car here a week ago and filled it with camping equipment. So tonight we are roughing it for our final night! I'm starting to wish I'd packed it with a spare set of clothes or maybe a washing machine! 😂
Feels good to have made it coast to coast now! Nearly there! 🚴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😎

06/08/2020

Hello Edinburgh! Cycling through the capital was so different to how I imagined it. At times it seemed like we were back in the countryside such is the secret network of cycle paths that filter through the city. Great experience... and no rain. None! Just glorious sunshine all day long. So we took our time on these 11 miles. The girls got off and walked half of it!
Staying at a beautiful place on the Royal Mile which would never be affordable during a 'normal' August!
2 days to go.
Feels like we're on the home stretch now.

05/08/2020

Another 19 miles and stage 5 complete! Crossed the incredible Avon aqueduct this morning just before the rain started again. 250metres long and almost 100ft high it was quite something to walk over it. As the heavens opened once more we traded a wet Bo'ness for a cafe filled Linlithgow and strayed from the path a wee bit! Waited 2 hours for the rain to stop. It didn't, so we powered on through the woods and down the coast of the Forth river to the mighty bridges marking the entrance to Edinburgh. South Queensferry tonight and tomorrow into the capital! There is nothing like a cycling adventure to make one feel truly alive! ,🚴😁💦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

04/08/2020

A wet and windy night in a tiny hut on a boggy marsh followed by a wetter and windier 11 mile ride and we made it to the Falkirk Wheel! 5 more miles to a hotel... and hopefully a radiator!! 😂🚴😔

02/08/2020

That's more like it! After a bit of a shaky start yesterday, and scenery that wasn't as inspiring as we're used to; today really delivered! 18 miles along what is apparently the toughest section of the John Muir Way. A wee fall early on that I have sworn not to mention, so I won't, lots of stops for goodies to keep everyone happy plus 2km of rocky ground where we had to get off and all walk...uphill. Luckily for us not only were the weather gods with us, but our kids were in a playful, and very energetic mood and played 'the floor is lava' all the way up! How different things could have gone!!! 🤔🚴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿