Epic First Day | Cycling from London 🇬🇧 to Barcelona 🇪🇦 | Episode 1

1500km. No backup. Just legs, a bike and a dream.

In Episode 1 of this epic ride from London to Barcelona, I cycle from London to Dieppe facing ferry pressure on a dodgy bike.

📍DFDS Dieppe

Follow my full journey from London to Barceloneta Beach – cycling across England, France, Andorra, and Spain in this no-support, no-shortcuts bikepacking epic, weekly episodes.

Man, I can’t believe I’m actually doing this. This is just so hard. I’m in a ski resort and I’m so leaving London with a bike, camera, tent, and no backup. 1 and a half thousand kilometers to Barcelona. Will I learn the language? I’m coardi. Um, please. What will I see on this adventure? Who will I meet along the way? This is the first episode of London to Barcelona. Let’s find out what it’s all about. So, first camping spot of the day is France is de. Let’s make it near Brighton, New Haven. 50 miles for today. The fattest hill of England on this trip is here right now. I’ve already knocked the gears a bit out of place. It makes a funny noise and it’s England, not the mountains. There’s definitely rain coming. I have a tent with a hole in it. 30 mi of cycling and then France. If this bike doesn’t give me any problems to Barcelona soon going to be coming up to Haywood’s Heath. 1:00 now. Thank you. I have 3 hours to do 22 miles easy. But we don’t want problem to happen. We never want one to happen. It’s just that I need to get this ferry, man. I don’t even know what this is right now. I almost didn’t even look to the right as well. Hello. Hi. How you doing? That Haywood’s heave. On my way to France. Come on. We got East Sussex right here. Chain is being loud. It’s a small place. New Haven actually has a bike shop. It’s Louis Wind with BL. I’m going there. We are so close now. 7 miles from the bike shop. We got Kingston over here. I’m so close by now. I’m catching the feelings. I’m going to be gone. Gone from England for 15 days. Point of no return. New Haven. Nice. Thanks. You reckon that I can make it with that thing right there? Come on. Yeah. I just forgot you. Let’s go to France. It looks like we’re moving. What I’ve got to think about is camping at the end. Sun will set. I just have to get my spot. Make sure I have water. Do I treat myself to some food on the ferry? I got the beef burgan on the go. I’ll stick to the budget after England. Yeah, that wasn’t nice. But I need dinner cuz I’ve got to camp when I get there. What a good day. Sorted out issues at the bike shop. Got the ferry going. Come on. Front. 5k to my camping spot. I just want to go to sleep. I’m driving on the right now. Go on. Come on. I got to relax and just get to bed, mate. Oh, it’s not even early. That was quite rough. Calm little town. Dep. It’s 9:00 and I haven’t been disturbed or anything. I’m behind an ice cream shop. It doesn’t seem to have opened, mate. I’ve just got to pack up. Why is it so cold? I’m not prepared for it to be even much colder than this. I’m here now, though. Wow. I’m packed up just about. It takes me forever to do that stuff. 10 now. So, I got to dip my toes in the north coast of Europe. I’ve done it.