Bye bye Athens
8 февраля 2022 г., Греция ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
Last days in Greece
10 февраля 2022 г., Греция ⋅ ☀️ 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 sidesЧитать далее
Welcome to Turkey!
17 февраля 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We made it to Turkey!!
Istanbul!
20 февраля 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ☁️ 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 streetfoodЧитать далее
On the way to Ankara
25 февраля 2022 г., Турция ⋅ 🌧 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 addedЧитать далее
Encounter with the shepherd
1 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ☁️ 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 haveЧитать далее
Chasing the sun!
4 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ⛅ -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 busЧитать далее
Foodprint Nr 3
10 марта 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ 🌧 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 andЧитать далее
We cant escape the snow
11 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ⛅ 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, aЧитать далее
Baklava heaven
13 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ❄️ 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 forЧитать далее
Salinurfa
16 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ☀️ 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 muchЧитать далее
Mardin
22 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ⛅ 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 manyЧитать далее
Cycling into Iran
25 марта 2022 г., Турция ⋅ ☁️ 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 laterЧитать далее
First days in Iran
27 марта 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ⛅ 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 марта 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 inЧитать далее
Colourful mountains
31 марта 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 wereЧитать далее
Hospitality on the road
3 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 guideЧитать далее
Tehran!
7 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☁️ 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.Читать далее
The holy city of Ghom
11 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 guideЧитать далее
Desert city Kashan
13 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ⛅ 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, coolЧитать далее
Lush green Isfahan
16 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ⛅ 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. ThankЧитать далее
No (wo)man’s land
18 апреля 2022 г., Иран ⋅ ☀️ 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 theЧитать далее














































































































































































































































































































ПутешественникWir 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]