posted on 31 Mar 2023 Tangier — 28 Jan 2023 Decorative fountain

Here's the second part of our time in Morocco. We were joined by a good friend, visited a couple of iconic cities, defied the Atlas mountains one last time, milked a cow and we started our long way back home along the coast.

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posted on 15 Mar 2023 Marrakech — 31 Dec 2022 Merzouga sunset

As always: here’s what happened a few months ago :-)! This update is about the first of our two months in Morocco. In that time, we travelled from Melilla(SP)/Nador(MA) to Marrakech. On the way we crossed two different mountain ranges and had some fun in the desert.

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posted on 1 Jan 2023 Barcelona — 14 Nov 2022 Sunset on the ferry

We made it to Morocco! It took about two months to travel here from Iran using a few trains, cycling over three thousand kilometres and, of course, taking a lot of ferries. Here’s a short update on how that went.

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posted on 28 Oct 2022 Tatev — 10 Sep 2022 Tatev monastery

While we are taking a few, long overdue rest days here in the mountains in Italy, I can finally take the time to write about some of our more positive experiences of the trip again. We have more or less been on the move non-stop since we left Iran, and in the meantime we crossed Turkey by train, island-hopped through Greece and cycled for two weeks in Italy. More about our current plans at the end of the post, but first: Armenia.

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posted on 26 Sep 2022 Miyaneh — 21 Sep 2022 Impressive mosaics inside the Blue Mosque

Salām! We finally made it to Iran after ten months of travelling. We were so happy to have made it and the first week in the country was amazing. Only to come to an abrupt end a few days later. We had an encounter with the secret police and the scary experience made us decide to leave Iran. We spent only ten days in Iran and saw the ugly face of it way too quickly.

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posted on 6 Sep 2022 Tbilisi — 26 Aug 2022 Road to Mestia

Well, Georgia turned out a bit different than we had expected and it ended up being not a very positive experience. In the end, we did have a few nice days of cycling and went to some beautiful places, but overall we didn't enjoy our time so much.

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posted on 13 Aug 2022 Batumi — 11 Aug 2022 Cycling in 40°C

Here's part two of our time in Turkey. From Ankara, we cycled southeast towards Turkish Kurdistan, until we realised we had to change our plans of going to Iran through Iraqi Kurdistan. We took another bus and eventually finished off Turkey in the northeast, before reaching the Black Sea and crossing the border to Georgia.

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posted on 3 Aug 2022 Anakara — 6 Jul 2022 Always up

Merhaba arkadaşlarım! Since our last update, we cycled from Istanbul to the Mediterranean Sea, followed the coastline for a while, took a bus to Ankara and then cycled through Central Anatolia to reach the summit of Mount Nemrut, before arriving in Mesopotamia by crossing the famous Eufrat.

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posted on 19 Jun 2022 Istanbul — 2 Jun 2022 Istanbul skyline

It has been four weeks since we left Thessaloniki. Since then, many things have happened. Mainly because we changed countries, from Greece to Turkey or, more correctly, Türkiye. The hospitality and generosity since then have been crazy, and it’s getting more intense by the day. There are so many stories to tell, more than I could write down, but here are a few of them.

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