“How did you find out about me?” Eleanor Hulm asks when we start talking, her voice bright despite the four hour time difference plotting her somewhere before 9pm.
I tell her that our news editor, Adam, had seen one of her videos pop up on his Instagram and she laughs in disbelief [I need to log off – ed.]. It’s only been 16 days since she set off from Bangkok to cycle home to the UK and already her stories of mountain traverses, altercations with street dogs and joint rides with local cycle groups have ballooned her Instagram follower count by over 500.
