Bye bye Athens
2022年2月8日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☁️ 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 theもっと詳しく
Last days in Greece
2022年2月10日, ギリシャ ⋅ ☀️ 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 sidesもっと詳しく
Welcome to Turkey!
2022年2月17日, トルコ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We made it to Turkey!!
Istanbul!
2022年2月20日, トルコ ⋅ ☁️ 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 streetfoodもっと詳しく
On the way to Ankara
2022年2月25日, トルコ ⋅ 🌧 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 addedもっと詳しく
Encounter with the shepherd
2022年3月1日, トルコ ⋅ ☁️ 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 haveもっと詳しく
Chasing the sun!
2022年3月4日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ -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 busもっと詳しく
Foodprint Nr 3
2022年3月10日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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
2022年3月10日, トルコ ⋅ 🌧 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 andもっと詳しく
We cant escape the snow
2022年3月11日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 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, aもっと詳しく
Baklava heaven
2022年3月13日, トルコ ⋅ ❄️ 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 forもっと詳しく
Salinurfa
2022年3月16日, トルコ ⋅ ☀️ 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 muchもっと詳しく
Mardin
2022年3月22日, トルコ ⋅ ⛅ 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 manyもっと詳しく
Cycling into Iran
2022年3月25日, トルコ ⋅ ☁️ 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 laterもっと詳しく
First days in Iran
2022年3月27日, イラン ⋅ ⛅ 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
2022年3月29日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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 inもっと詳しく
Colourful mountains
2022年3月31日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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
2022年4月2日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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 wereもっと詳しく
Hospitality on the road
2022年4月3日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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!
2022年4月5日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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 guideもっと詳しく
Tehran!
2022年4月7日, イラン ⋅ ☁️ 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.もっと詳しく
The holy city of Ghom
2022年4月11日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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 guideもっと詳しく
Desert city Kashan
2022年4月13日, イラン ⋅ ⛅ 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, coolもっと詳しく
Lush green Isfahan
2022年4月16日, イラン ⋅ ⛅ 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. Thankもっと詳しく
No (wo)man’s land
2022年4月18日, イラン ⋅ ☀️ 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 theもっと詳しく














































































































































































































































































































旅行者Wir 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]