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# transcontinental

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'You have to have a few nuts loose in your head to want to do something like this'

Four years later, Simon Hutchinson doesn’t want to be known for just one epic cycle and he’s lining up a journey across Europe.

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Feb 21st 2016, 10:00 AM

Bitten by dogs in Bosnia, hit by a car in Bulgaria - this Irishman completed an epic adventure race

Some people lie on a beach for a holiday; not Ultan Coyle.

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Aug 17th 2015, 8:00 AM

You can now get an underwater train from Europe to Asia

The tunnel in Istanbul was first suggested by an Ottoman sultan in 1860.

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Jul 25th 2014, 12:12 PM