Love can discover you wherever… even in Armenia.
That’s what British-born Tom Allen found throughout his three-and-half-year round-the-world bicycle touring try in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
A complete beginner to the world of long-distance bicycle touring, 23-year-old Tom Allen pedaled away from his snug English life-style and set off into the unknown with two of his closest associates at his aspect. Alongside the best way, Tom documented his travels by bike on a small private video digital camera, recording greater than 300 hours of footage throughout his time on the highway.
As spectacular because it sounds, Tom Allen’s self-supported bicycle journey throughout greater than 32 completely different international locations isn’t distinctive. There are a whole lot of people that have cycled around the globe and coated longer, harder stretches of highway. However Tom’s journey is greater than memorable in that after being deserted by his journey companions, he met and fell in love with an enthralling and feisty younger Iranian-Armenian girl named Tenny.
Like Ted Schredd in The Biking Adventures of Coconut Head, who’s compelled to determine between staying together with his present girlfriend or giving her as much as pursue a brand new love, Tom is now compelled to make an vital resolution. Ought to he keep in Armenia together with his new-found love and abandon his goals of bicycle touring around the globe? Or ought to he proceed his bike journey, realizing that the love that comes so hardly ever is sitting in Armenia ready for him?
Caught on the high of a steep mountain move, Tom has to choose. Must be flip round and pedal again to the one he loves? Or ought to he simply preserve using and stay out his goals of biking around the globe? No matter resolution he makes, there may be certain to be some remorse!
Janapar: Love on a Bike is the title of Tom Allen’s 110-minute film about his bicycle tour around the globe and the love he discovered alongside the best way. The phrase “janapar” comes from the Armenian phrase for “journey” and is the right phrase to explain Tom Allen’s transformation from the inexperienced and headstrong, younger boy we’re launched to at the start of the movie… to the weathered, worldly and caring younger man we uncover on the movie’s conclusion.
Janapar: Love on a Bike is not only a film made for individuals who love bicycle touring, however is a narrative that anybody who has ever been in love, or has hoped to be in love, can relate to.
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Stream the movie on-line, obtain to your machine, or order the DVD worldwide. Janapar: Love on a Bike is on the market at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and on iTunes.
To study extra in regards to the film, order a duplicate of the movie and study extra about Tom Allen’s bicycle touring adventures, remember to go to the official film web site at www.janapar.com
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