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4 December 2018
Our original plan for this trip was to fly from Istanbul to Pakistan. However by the time we had realised that we could only apply for a tourist visa from our home country (as opposed to doing it from the consulate in Istanbul for example) it was too late to give our passports up for […]
2 December 2018
We have seen and experienced 17 countries on our travels so far, which has been educational, eye-opening and just absolutely brilliant. However of everything we have seen and done it has been the people that have made the trip for us, and we have been very lucky to meet some amazing people and make some […]
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 […]
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
We were woken by the ‘call to prayer’ in Kesan on Saturday morning when it was still dark. We have discovered that it goes from day to night and vice versa like the flick of a switch here, so by the time it was daylight at 8.15 we had the bikes packed and were ready to […]
18 November 2018
After nearly three weeks in Greece, it’s time to move on. Unfortunately our overall impression of the country hasn’t been that great for 3 main reasons: 1. For such lovely scenery there is rubbish absolutely everywhere which completely spoils it, and in our view is completely unnecesssry as most of it is recyclable. Not very […]