If you can remember back to January’s edition I announced the following competition, after reviewing TrailBlazer’s latest book – A guide to adventure travelling by Stephen Lord.  My prize winning question was:-Competition time – the first person who can tell me who first cycled round the world & when, then they can have my review copy of this handbook for free?  Send your answers to theant@globetrotters.co.uk and announce the winner in a following edition.

And we did have a winner…step forward Gregory Mannion of Fountain Hills, Arizona, USA J  Gregory correctly answered that:-
The first around the world bicyclist was Thomas Stevens who started his three year journey in 1884.

Here is my what I based my answer on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stevens_(cyclist)
Thanks once again to Gregory and also to all at TrailBlazer for providing such an interesting read & prize, particularly Caroline Gray :