I Cannot Make Up My Mind If She Isn't One The Bravest

[emmie]

women i have read about or simply mad. It's a really interesting piece if you read it all.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39351162

[emmie]

perhaps there is a lesson for us - not to judge too harshly, i still wouldn't do it i confess, much too dangerous.

[cassa333]

Probably a bit of both.

Naive or hopeful?

Although I agree with the idea that not everyone is generically the same as terrorists or women haters etc. Normal people going about their normal business are just the same over the world over.

[emmie]

so they are. She must have come across a lot of sexual harassment from miscreants, that would have deterred me somewhat.

[Samjenko]

Mental.

[wolf63]

It was posted on April the first so maybe it never happened

[emmie]

i believed it happened. will check out when she did the ride, as i don't think it was this year.

[emmie]

she set off July 2015, and rode across Europe so I don't think its fake, not going on the pictures. If you read the link which is very interesting, it tells you where she went.

[pastafreak]

Fascinating...and a breath of fresh air to read something so positive.

[pastafreak]

Her blog ( click on the menu in upper left corner )and more here...

http://thebicyclediaries.co.uk/

[mikey4444]

This woman isn't the first....Dame Freya Madeline Stark was doing this many years ago :::::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Stark

[mikey4444]

And lived to be over 100 !

[ladybirder]

Wow, I have got a female friend who is planning to cycle alone to Japan next year calling in to a few different countries to see a friends on the way, one of whom is in Afghanistan. I'm already worrying about her and she hasn't even left yet so thanks for posting the link.

[hc4361]

I've read a couple of autobiographies by women who have cycled solo across the world. Being the unadventurous type I am full of admiration for them and have been cheered at the support they got from strangers in every country - and the way they handled the bad bits of the journey.

More solo ladies here:
http://www.pushbikegirl.com/solo-cyclists.php

[emmie]

mikey i expect she wasn't the only woman to go across hostile terrain. After all women served as nurses, VAD's in France and Belgium during WW1. And flew aircraft across the country during WW2.

[mikey4444]

Dame Freya was a remarkable women, by any way of looking....read her Wiki link !

[Zacs-Master]

It just goes to show the exaggeration of the worlds media. Here be Dragons! No. Not really.

[ToraToraTora]

completely radio, the place aint civilised.

[emmie]

zacs the world is still a very dangerous place, who would have thought taking a leisurely walk across Westminster bridge could cause so much carnage.

[trt]

Why did she want to show that the bulk of the Middle East is far from the volatile hub of violence and fanaticism people believe?

She says, that these men were not monsters, they were ignorant and often ill-educated.
Well she's 80% wrong there, the other 20% just like the sight of white female skin.

[hc4361]

She was totally vulnerable to being assaulted, raped and/or murdered if anyone was inclined to do it - she wasn't.