He went around the world without flying, but thanks to a new airship, last week Ed Gillespie finally got airborne

A year after he set off, Ed Gillespie bids farewell to Central America and boards a banana boat to the UK for the final leg of his flight-free round-the-world odyssey

Ed Gillespie has just completed an epic 13-month flight-free trip round the world, now he shares some slow travel insights for the more time and cash-strapped traveller

As his flight-free trip around the world nears its end, Ed Gillespie meets a couple in Nicaragua who have taken 'slow travel' to an extreme - 14 years on the road and counting...

Arriving in Nicaragua on his low-carbon world tour, Ed Gillespie rejects the scare stories about downtown Managua, only to find himself grovelling before an Essex Satan in colonial Granada

Thirty-one countries into his flight-free world tour, Ed Gillespie arrives in Antigua, Guatemala, home to awe-inspiring volcanoes - and voracious bed bugs

After 11 months travelling around the world without taking a single flight, Ed Gillespie has reached the highlands of Guatemala, where the joys of bus transport are starting to wear a little thin

Continuing his flight-free trip around the world, Ed Gillespie makes the most of Mexico's insect life, from a close encounter with millions of butterflies, to a market snack of fried grasshopper

Continuing his flight-free round the world trip, Ed Gillespie finds a beautiful Mexican bay under threat from US cruise ships

The latest leg of Ed Gillespie's low-carbon journey around the world finds him in Mexico's Wild West, where he descends into the bowels of the earth and has a close encounter with the dead

Continuing his low-carbon world tour, Ed Gillespie becomes 'institutionalised' on a cargo ship sailing from New Zealand to Mexico

Ed Gillespie's low-carbon world tour finds him cold and wet in the wilds of New Zealand and hot and bothered in a volcanic landscape straight out of Tolkien's Mount Doom

Continuing his low-carbon world tour, Ed Gillespie finds hitch-hiking across New Zealand too slow even for his tastes, but it's positively speedy compared to his next free ride ... on a glacier

Ed Gillespie arrives, flightless, in the land of the kiwi on the latest leg of his eco-trip around the world - and finds that some sulphuric emissions are as unappealing as carbon ones.

Ed Gillespie boards a cargo ship in Melbourne on the latest leg of his round-the-world trip, and finds that while carbon emissions are low, the same cannot be said of nicotine levels.

Suicidal kangaroos and a python in the shower are just some of the hazards Ed Gillespie faces as he drives his camper van across Australia on the latest leg of his plane-free trip around the world.

Continuing his mission to travel around the world without flying, Ed Gillespie boards a container ship in Singapore and sets sail - with a friendly Filipino crew and a karaoke machine - for Australia

Continuing his low-carbon world tour, Ed Gillespie discovers that slow travel is not without its perils, whether it be potholed roads, a listing boat or the threat of deportation for being a hippy.

In the latest stage of his flight-free trip around the world, Ed Gillespie finds a lovers' lake in Vietnam more suited to mud-wrestling and visits a rice wine distillery ... perfect if you're having dog for dinner.

Continuing his low-carbon trip around the world, Ed Gillespie enjoys the freedom of a bicycle in Hanoi but independent travel elsewhere in Vietnam is a struggle.