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Tom Allen

A Decade On, Here’s Exactly How I Make A Living From Adventure Travel

A reader of my adventure cycling blog emailed me the other day:

8 min readJan 4, 2024

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A Decade On, Here’s Exactly How I Make A Living From Adventure Travel

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Tom Allen

Introducing A New National Village-To-Village Hiking Trail For Armenia

Yesterday afternoon, in the leafy surrounds of Yerevan Botanical Gardens, the Armenian State Tourism Committee and HIKEArmenia announced…

10 min readMay 17, 2023

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Introducing A New National Village-To-Village Hiking Trail For Armenia

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Tom Allen

#FlightFree2020: Travel Blogging And The Multiplier Effect

There’s an elephant in the room with my #FlightFree2020 pledge.

2 min readFeb 4, 2020

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#FlightFree2020: Travel Blogging And The Multiplier Effect

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Tom Allen

About The Time I Travelled The World Flight-Free For 4 Years (And Nobody Cared)

My Flight Free 2020 pledge hasn’t come out of nowhere. Call it a rekindling of a long-forgotten conviction that the example I set might…

7 min readJan 15, 2020

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About The Time I Travelled The World Flight-Free For 4 Years (And Nobody Cared)

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Tom Allen

Can Flight-Free Living & Adventure Travel Really Coexist? Let’s Find Out

Today, on this day of New Year’s Resolutions, I pledge to join the Flight Free UK campaign.

7 min readJan 1, 2020

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Can Flight-Free Living & Adventure Travel Really Coexist? Let’s Find Out

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Tom Allen

Five Of Armenia’s Most Spectacular Monastery Hikes

Many of Armenia’s most famous Christian monasteries are dramatically situated amid towering cliffs or on precipitous mountainsides with…

15 min readJan 7, 2019

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Five Of Armenia’s Most Spectacular Monastery Hikes

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Tom Allen

The Geghama Mountains: Exploring Armenia’s Volcanic Backcountry

In which I walked 114km along a chain of extinct volcanoes in Armenia.

10 min readDec 19, 2018

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The Geghama Mountains: Exploring Armenia’s Volcanic Backcountry

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Tom Allen

How I Added ‘Guidebook Author’ To My List Of So-Called Professions

How does someone go from being a traveller to becoming a published guidebook author? Here’s the Medium-length version of my story…

6 min readDec 12, 2018

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How I Added ‘Guidebook Author’ To My List Of So-Called Professions

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Tom Allen

10 Illustrated Tips For Improving Your Expedition Photography No End

Last weekend I flew to London for the annual Explore expedition planning conference at the Royal Geographical Society (the one chance I…

11 min readNov 14, 2018

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10 Illustrated Tips For Improving Your Expedition Photography No End

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Tom Allen

5 Ancient Monasteries In Armenia’s Dilijan National Park (& How To Find Them)

The experience of exploring Armenia on foot is characterised by three things:

8 min readOct 9, 2018

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5 Ancient Monasteries In Armenia’s Dilijan National Park (& How To Find Them)

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Tom Allen

Tom Allen

Explorer, trail prospector & travel writer • Co-founder of the #TranscaucasianTrail • Lifelong bicycle traveller • Designated gravy maker • FRGS • On sabbatical

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