Beaches, bikies and koalas with chlamydia: John Bishop's Australian adventure

By Sarah Thomas
Updated January 27 2015 - 12:13pm, first published 11:14am
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
On the road: John Bishop recreated a cycling trip he did 22 years earlier.
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>
Raising the flag: <i>John Bishop's Australia.</i>

In 1992, John Bishop undertook the mammoth feat of cycling from Sydney back to his home in Liverpool, England. Since then he's become one of Britain's most-loved comics on the back of his dry anecdotes and observations about life and his family. Last year, at age 47, he revisited the Sydney to Cairns leg of the trip, cycling with a BBC camera crew in tow over eight weeks, tackling beaches, bikies and koalas with chlamydia.

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