James Borrell is a biodiversity scientist and science communicator researching how people and nature can adapt to environmental change.

Follow the Journey

Well we’re off via a ferry from Harwich in search of beautiful and wild Europe, and there’s been an exciting last minute development on the trip.

The nice folks at Luxson have very kindly provided a very cool interactive map called ‘Punkt’ to allow anyone to follow the journey, I’ll be doing my best to update it along the way.

It’s not the first time it’s been used in this way, in fact Rob Lilwall and Leon McCarron just used it walking home from Mongolia, you can see their (much bigger!) map here. It’s also being used for the World Photo Tour and Tim Moss tried it out for his Scilly to Shetland cycle.

I’d really like to hear from you, so take a look at the map below, and do let us know what you think.

P.S. Had an early birthday party yesterday, cool cake I’m sure you’ll agree!

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