Bye bye Athens
8. helmikuuta 2022, Kreikka ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
Winter break is over and we can finally start cycling again!! Just when we left Crete, a huge snow storm hit Athens. Seems like winter didn’t want to leave so quickly 😅
With a little help of theLue lisää
Last days in Greece
10. helmikuuta 2022, Kreikka ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
How good it feels to be in the saddle again… or how painful it feels. 😅 We can’t believe that we will soon depart from the Mediterranean ocean. It has never been very far from our sidesLue lisää
Welcome to Turkey!
17. helmikuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We made it to Turkey!!
Istanbul!
20. helmikuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
Cycling into Istanbul was quite traumatising but it was definitely worth it! We fell in love immediately with the busy streets, the beautiful mosques and most of all …. The food! So much streetfoodLue lisää
On the way to Ankara
25. helmikuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ 🌧 3 °C
After a rainy cycling day we were rewarded with a natural hot spring. They are abundant here. Then we headed for the mountains with lovely old Ottoman cities. And we were definitely glad that we addedLue lisää
Encounter with the shepherd
1. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
While looking for a sleeping place we accidentally ran into a herd of sheep with their shepherd. Without any common language he immediately invited us to set up our tent in his shelter and to haveLue lisää
Chasing the sun!
4. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ⛅ -2 °C
In Ankara we finally got our Iranian Visas! Though we enjoyed our ride through central Anatolia we were longing for some warmer days. Therefore we listened to some good advice and we hopped on a busLue lisää
Foodprint Nr 3
10. maaliskuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
We totally forgot to upload our Turkish foodprint. So far our culinary highlight! So many truly good kebabs, Lamacun, köfte, gözleme, soups, baklava, ice cream… and the list goes on and on… 🤤
Sleeping in an olive press factory
10. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
What started with a friendly chai with Hasan turned into dinner, then a dry and warm sleeping place and even breakfast. Thank you so much Hasan for letting us sleep in the olive press factory andLue lisää
We cant escape the snow
11. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ⛅ 1 °C
Somehow we cannot fully escape the snow. In the Mountains we were hit again with snowstorms. Luckily, Mehmet and his family found us outside of their village and invited us to a lovely dinner, aLue lisää
Baklava heaven
13. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ❄️ 0 °C
In Gaziantep we discovered that this place is THE Baklava place in Turkey! And also for other amazing Turkish dishes… Lamacun, Icli Köfte….etc. There’s food for the stomach but also food forLue lisää
Salinurfa
16. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ☀️ 9 °C
On our way to Salinurfa we got invited for a chai from Ibrahim. Even though we could just communicate with our ✋ and 🦶 and a little help from google translate… we were able to laugh so muchLue lisää
Mardin
22. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
We once again encountered snow… But unlike most of the 🚗 with summer tires, we were able to pedal our way through the snow up to Mardin, a picturesque old city with narrow alleys and manyLue lisää
Cycling into Iran
25. maaliskuuta 2022, Turkki ⋅ ☁️ 0 °C
Quite some eventful last days in Turkey. First we discovered that due to Iranian New Year the border city of Van was quite busy. Then we forgot our passports at the hotel in Van 😅 only 20 km laterLue lisää
First days in Iran
27. maaliskuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C
Our first days in Iran were just a bliss. We were blessed with great camping spots, a night sleeping in the prayer room of a gas station and muuuch muuuch warmer weather.
Wonderful hospitality in Tabriz
29. maaliskuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
In Tabriz we were welcomed with open arms by our warmshowers host Mehdi, his cousin Mohammad and his friend Hadi. They showed us around the biggest bazaar of the world, where even locals get lost inLue lisää
Colourful mountains
31. maaliskuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Definitely a camping highlight! Just a couple meters off the road we found ourselves in the midst of the colourful mountains of Tabriz.
Nature Day in Iran
2. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Nature Day in Iran is definitely a spectacle for tourists! Everywhere on the road you see cars and trucks parked. People are picnicking everywhere and planting🌳. We were given so much food and wereLue lisää
Hospitality on the road
3. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Since we entered Iran there hasn’t been one day on the bike without invitations to homes, so many gifts of food and water, a lift with a mini van…. and so many selfies. 😃
Thank you Farah!
5. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
We again were welcomed with open arms by our warmshowers host Farah in Zanjan! We had the pleasure to sleep beside her canary birds in her lovely apartment. Farah used to be a professional tour guideLue lisää
Tehran!
7. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
We made it to Tehran!! Wohoo!! Though we did have the help of a train from Zanjan to the Capital seeing how we did not want to relive the same experience as in Istanbul of driving into a mega city.Lue lisää
The holy city of Ghom
11. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Ghom is one of the holiest city of Iran. Here the Supreme Leader lives here and a shrine of Imam Reza‘s sister Fatemeh was built here. As a foreigner you are accompanied by an English speaking guideLue lisää
Desert city Kashan
13. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
In the desert city of Kashan we discovered the beautiful and intelligent ancient architecture of the desert. Centuries before the air condition they built wind catchers that would catch the air, coolLue lisää
Lush green Isfahan
16. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
After our time in the desert city of Kashan we were happy to discover the green alleys of Isfahan. We were lucky that the river was flowing which is only the case for a short period in the year. ThankLue lisää
No (wo)man’s land
18. huhtikuuta 2022, Iran ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We realized in Isfahan that we only had 3 days to cross the desert in order to prolong our visa on time in Yazd due to public holidays unknown to us 😅 Thus, we set out to pedal hard through theLue lisää














































































































































































































































































































MatkaajaWir hatten nicht so viel Scnee 😭😩 Viel Spass bei der Weiterfahrt. Wir sind alle gespannt wie eure Strecke weiter geht 👍
Krass schon 6000km :) Ich wünsche Euch eine gute Reise und gehe davon aus, dass Ihr immer noch per Du seit :) Machts gut. Liebe Grüsse Ruedi [Ruedi]