The ulimate cycle touring blog for anyone planning on cycling the silk road.
A cycling blog about our bicycle tour along the silk road.
Sand slashes any inch of uncovered skin, blown across the parched desert by screaming winds. My knees aching from 5 days cycling, pushing a bike with 20 kilos of gear, all my worldly possessions.
Read MoreArmenia greeted us with some of the most leg shaking, knee shattering, cycling of our trip to date. Couple with its complex history, this county will challenge you in more ways than one.
Read MoreWhere kindness is, who cares for peace or war? Where goodness acts, who hears prayer or quarrel? When a man's accepted, who cares where he's from? Surrender, yield: if not your pride's a stone.
Read MoreRight from the moment the idea for this trip was planned, and a map was opened to discover the countries we'd be crossing, Armenia stood out like a storm cloud brewing on the horizon.
Read MoreAfter 28 days and 834km cycled, here's our rough guide to cycling in Georgia.
Read MoreWe've been cycling for 3 months now, and to celebrate I'd like to share 3 lessons learnt.
Read MoreMy first week in Georgia was definitely not what one would call fun. I was cursing everything Georgian; from the 70% alcohol at 9am to the bitter cold, hungover faces and ugly soviet architecture.
Read MoreFrontiers are a fascinating place. These physical borders between countries often feel like imaginary lines drawn up by middle age men in far away places.
Read MoreOur two months cycling in Turkey was an amazing experience, filled with the kindess and generosity of all the beautiful Turkish people we met. Check out our stats for all the number nerds out there.
Read MoreCycling to Ezurum we crossed the regional border between the Black Sea region and Eastern Anatolia, and the differences were immediately noticeable. Villages were poorer, the landscape dryer and the mountains snow capped.
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