A proud Yorkshireman, Mr Watts has been riding on a Harrogate-made bike christened “Hendo” in honour of Henderson’s Relish, a popular condiment in his home city.<\/p>\n
While he admitted homesickness had yet to kick in, he was given a “surreal” reminder of Yorkshire during a recent homestay in rural Turkey.<\/p>\n
“I was staying with a host family and the guy said to me ‘this is my favourite programme’ – it was Our Yorkshire Farm.<\/p>\n
“It was so random and it was all dubbed in Turkish. I couldn’t believe it had made it out to Turkey, that made me miss home a bit.”<\/p>\n
Mr Watts said travelling on cycle routes had taken him away from popular tourist destinations and allowed him to experience the “true culture” of the countries he has visited.<\/p>\n
“Experiencing the really remote rural areas and interactions with people, it pulls you out of your own social bubble,” he added.<\/p>\n
“I’ll pick up things from each culture, I’m sure, and hopefully bring some back home – and introduce them to some Yorkshire culture.”<\/p>\n
So far he has spent just \u20ac15 (\u00a312.96) on accommodation, with most of his time in Europe spent wild camping.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, everything he needs for his trip is strapped to Hendo.<\/p>\n
“That’s my life for three years pretty much,” said Mr Watts, who has spent most of his working life in hospitality.<\/p>\n
“It’s a strange feeling, it’s quite liberating.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A proud Yorkshireman, Mr Watts has been riding on a Harrogate-made bike christened “Hendo” in honour of Henderson’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-263773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114850690706895320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}