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3 December 2018
This blog gives a brief overview of our plan for the sub-continent, but with the caveat that it is unlikely to be particularly accurate at this stage because we have no idea how long things will take in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar (not really the sub-continent, but contained in this section for planning purposes). We […]
30 November 2018
So, we got to Istanbul in one piece and then relaxed….we’ll actually it didn’t work out that way! We had a list of things to do here which included visa enquiries, bike maintenance, getting cardboard for transporting our bikes, a load of admin, haircuts, plus a long list of other things. We decided to try […]
27 November 2018
This piece is for anyone interested in the equipment we are carrying and the bikes we are carrying it all on. Now that we have been on the road for 7.5 months we have a better idea of what we have brought. We have used nearly everything that we have with us and luckily most of […]
26 November 2018
If you Google the distance from London to Istanbul it comes up with 3,950-odd km, so how did it take us over 12,000km? Here are the statistics in order of the countries we visited: #1 – England – 153km #2 – Netherlands – 374km #3 – Germany – 603km #4 – Denmark – 493km #5 […]
21 November 2018
Route from Kavala, Greece to Istanbul, Turkey: 14 – 20 November 2018 Out of Kavala we took the Old National Highway, the Blue Route 2 and found it to be reasonably quiet with just a few tough (ish) climbs. Apart from the mountains to the north, the road is a rather dull as far as […]
17 November 2018
We really did have a lovely relaxing time in Kavala, so feeling refreshed we were up and out a bit earlier than normal on Wednesday morning to start our ride East. Our plan is to get a few big(ish) days in so that when the time comes we can hopefully take our time getting into […]