Our time in Tajakistan was quite special for us, so we decided to make a film of our time cycling through it. Here is a month cycling in Tajakistan squeezed into a 4min video: https://youtu.be/K9NrJy_dkfM
Author: Pedro Vicente
The North Road
After a couple of bad nights sleep in a cheap hostel in Dushanbe, we managed to find and move in with a warmshowers, Bianca. We were in fact really lucky, as Bianca was only staying in Dushanbe for two months whilst completing an internship and agreed to have us in her apartment during the very … Continue reading The North Road
Melting along the Silk Road
Uzbekistan was without a doubt the hottest country we had ever been. A bit like a flashback to Portugal on one of its hottest days of the year, but worse. Even hotter (or perhaps just drier) and without any ocean nearby to dive in to cool down, not even for a few minutes. We entered … Continue reading Melting along the Silk Road
Pedallin’ in Persia
https://youtu.be/zaUFsxKUtaY We made a quick video to summarize our time in Iran!
Pedallin’ East at last
Knowing at last we could cycle East we captured our Turkmenistan visa in Tehran and planned our remaining time in Iran. Realising we hadn't in fact done much cycling in the country, although we had already spent more than a month in it, we decided to get some cycling done in the Golestan natural park … Continue reading Pedallin’ East at last
City hoppin’
Given the need to prepare visas for the upcoming countries, we unwillingly spent quite some time (too much time!) in 3 major Iranian cities: Hamedan, Tehran and Kashan (the last to escape the madness of Tehran). Our time in these cities can quickly be summarised in: • tiles, many tiles of many colours and shapes … Continue reading City hoppin’
The last chai in Turkey
We'd already spent longer than planned in Turkey, so we decided to catch a sleeper train to the north east of the country to speed up our progress. As always, the sleeper train was an adventure in itself and we enjoyed a lazy morning admiring the landscape from the comfort of our bunk beds. Our … Continue reading The last chai in Turkey
Crossing continents
Inspired by the Museum of Innocence that we visited in Istanbul this post will structured in small chapters… Istanbul? We should go there… Or should we? Somehow, even though we always avoid big cities, much preferring to cycle through villages and mountains in the countryside, we both had in our minds that we should visit … Continue reading Crossing continents
6 months on the road
https://youtu.be/ViVvjsA3DAo (more entertaining with sound on!.. ;p) Pedro likes GIFs. Here's a video of our favourites glued together, from our last 6 months of cycling. Sarah promises to make more GIFs of Pedro for the next edition...
Do not feed the bears
We cycled towards Greece with dreams of sunny warm weather, maybe even of swims in the Mediterranean. As the days and nights got colder and colder in the Balkans, we kept saying to ourselves as motivation: "let's go south, let's go to Greece, it will be warmer..." The reality couldn't have been further from the … Continue reading Do not feed the bears