Tag: Cycle touring
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Bardia National Park
Namaste! Such a simple word and so important at the same time.We are greeted every day in Nepal by dozens upon dozens of people, from tiny toddlers to old ladies hauling back breaking loads, with massive smiles in this way. The problem is, to do it properly, you really should put your hands together and…
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Why go to London when you can stay in India?
Here’s a question……….. What is the main reason people visit London? I know you won’t have to think long or hard about this. The answer is blatantly that anyone who visits London goes there to visit Madame Tussaud’s, the wax museum. For years now, Indian people have been saving their hard earned pennies to go…
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Boring Mannar
Without mosquito nets in our room we had yet another sleepless night. The loud spinning fan above our beds meant we didn’t hear them, but they were there biting us constantly resulting in another restless itchy night. The old wooden walls of the colonial era government rest house was no barrier for these guys who…
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Our final day in Albania… Hello Macedonia!
An early start. To say we woke up cold would be a huge understatement…. We were freezing. The alarm sounded at 5am but there was no chance we were going to get out of our sleeping bags then, it wasn’t fully light and the only movement possible was snoozing the alarm and burrowing ourselves deeper…
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Leskovik to Mollaj- Albania’s South East
The south east of Albania has been quite a contrast to many of the parts of the country we have seen before, most of the towns and villages we pass through are forgotten backwaters. Once centres of industry and manufacture during Communist times, they have been forgotten in the years since and are shunned…
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Punctures, punctures and bunkers.
When we arrived back at the petrol station/hotel/coffee shop after visiting Gjirokaster yesterday, one of the guys working on the pumps came over gesticulating wildly at our bikes “Goma, goma!” He proclaimed. Goma indeed, Sam’s tyre was flat again and so this morning, we had yet another repair to carry out. Once that was done,…
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The Ferry from Koman to Fierze
We had read about the ferry ride from Fierze to Koman that runs through a series of connected reservoirs on numerous websites. The issue was that they had all been written several years ago and we could find little information that was up to date or that we could consider 100% reliable. We had decided…
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Crossing the Border between Montenegro and Serbia
I’ve never seen so much rubbish through a landscape as I saw today. And worse, it’s through a really beautiful gorge with dramatically dropping sides and the road giving glimpses to the green, unfortunately plastic filled ravine below. I’ve said this previously, but here towards the Montenegro-Serbia border,no one has bothered to let them know…
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Cycling from Mojkovac to Berane
Leaving Mojkovac was surprisingly hard. It hasn’t got much that you could consider a proper draw to it’s higgle piggle centre, but there’s something really endearing about it, the weird old soviet buildings, the friendly people or maybe even the chaotic driving. I’ve got a wee touch of a cold too, which made me reluctant…
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22,23/09 The Big Wind
We woke up in our secluded little alcove well rested despite the calls of unidentified animals throughout the night. Maybe it was just the fact that we hadn’t stumped up 17 euros for a small patch of grass to sleep on, who knows!? We headed back in to Trapanj for a quick breakfast of bananas…
Sam and Sheena Cycle 