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Taking the border crossing in Chong Sangam meant my legs first had to push up a hill for the first time after rolling through the flat...

I approached the border crossing Mohan Port (China) / Boten (Laos) coming from the Chinese side. It almost felt like China was waving me...

After visiting 22 countries, pedalling nearly 11000 kilometres, and losing 2 stones in weight it is time to reflect on my journey and to...

Wed 03rd July 2024 Ardahan to Berta Köprüsü Bridge, Tukiye ..Good morning.. 6AM, the alarm goes off. I’ve stayed in a hotel in Ardahan, a...

..Dusty, dry & exhausted.. It’s 8 AM and I am slowly cycling over the sandy, 5 km long gravel track towards the main road which will take...

..A Busman's Holiday & a mini School Reunion in Baku.. Baku was for some time one of the cities I was looking forward to visiting....

..I am off to a bad start here.. Generally, I don’t like big cities very much. For me, they are too noisy, too much traffic, too many...

And, as we pedal along and explore places we eat food. Lots of food! Unfortunately so far,  I have not lost any significant amount of...

Written by Rebecca Well, that's what Komoot says and I'll take that! 😀 There were a good number of highlights and challenges for me over...

Over three years ago, project UK to AUS made its humble beginnings. ..One can't do it alone.. Leaving the rut of everyday ‘normal’ life...

..Edirne to Istanbul.. What an awakening for us to enter Erdine on a very busy Friday, after leaving the quiet roads of Serbia, Bulgaria...

..Country number 11.. Bulgaria, a country pretty new to us! Only Rebecca has been here before – believe it or not – for a skiing holiday...

..Oldest City in Europe.. Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second-biggest city is Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited settlement – over 8 thousand...

And, as we pedal along we had more chance encounters worth mentioning in a blog! To meet people out of the blue and interacting with them...

..Vukovar.. Our visit to Croatia was very short. Due to a lack of accommodation in Serbia on that stretch of the Danube, we made the...

After our first night in Serbia, we cycled out of Bezdan along the Euro Velo 6 route. Even though we’ve only been less than 20 hours in...

At kilometer 2,419.2 (remaining distance of the river until it flows into the Black Sea – strangely, the distance signs are measured from...

Some of the days cycling along the river can be a bit monotonous and apart from making sure we are taking all the right turns and looking...

..At the Source.. As we were starting to run a bit late on Sunday afternoon (thanks to the hills in the area) we decided not to make the...

..Back into Germany.. It was about 2 km before the Swiss / German border in Koblenz when we got approached by a 70+ year old female on an...