hello everyone at home (and around the world!!) Jen here, Finally arrived in Buenos Aires afer a mammoth journey of 30 hours and 3 different planes!! And surprisingly all our stuff arrives with us (though one of the panniers had been thoroughly investigated an then roughly taped back together by american customs). Ian is just putting the bikes back together now and there dont seem to be any major problems.....que bent cranks kicking in after 50 miles or so!!! The journey started with a few hours in the manchester rush hour, then amazingly arriving on time had a bit of hassle [View Full Entry]

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So after the Easter European voyage we now move onto South America for a 3 or 4month bike tour. We fly to Buenos Aires on the 28th April and are cycling across the pampas to mendoza. We plan to cycle across the Andes and hit the Pacific coast at probably Valpairiso in Chile. Back over to Argentina and up the Eastern side of the mountain range and into Bolivia, La Paz, Lake Titicaca and on into Peru. Cuzco, the usual tourist stuff there Machu Piccu etc and then cycle down to the coast from 3800m and to Lima. Just trying to [View Full Entry]

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Well guys and gals, thanks for tuning in and reading our blog.....thanks for all the messages and the contact from back home...This is our final entry from our Eastern European trip and relates to our last couple of weeks in Croatia and Slovenia. We are now at home but thought we would finish the blog as part of our memories and to complete the story. Its actually pretty depressing writing it all as we sort of want to still be away....its wierd being home and not having to worry about our next place to stay, or buying in for the day [View Full Entry]

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just a few piccys of the coast of Montengro......small country....spectacular coast....high mile per photo ratio!!!!! [View Full Entry]

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Hi its Jenny again. Dont expect too much eloquence off me now. its been three months away and im beginning to forget how to type spell and text!! We arrived at Bar in montenegro at around 9am, around 2 hours late. Thats not bad for a former yugoslavia train. Suppose thats why they leave at least 3 hours between connections. We were hungry tired, and nerves were frayed as we made our way into town in search of a cash point and some food. We had maybe 5 hours of broken sleep on the overnight train from sofia. We had just [View Full Entry]

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Its Ian here, currently in Dubrovnik in Croatia and im 30...but lets go back to the heydays of my 20s if i can remember that far back and to Veliko Tarnavo in the middle of Bulgaria which is where we left you. Internet was free last time hence a bit of an essay but im flicking into a more light and breezy manor !! detail is for 20 somethings - they have time!! clock ticking for me now ( notice all the self abuse to deflect anyone elses attempts!!) Bulgaria was brilliant. I really enjoyed it and was one of my [View Full Entry]

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Jenny here, hi guys!! Finally made it into Bulgaria after extremely long detour to get across the border from romania, which resulted in us doing 65, 90 and 85 miles on three successive days! Only been in Bulgaria 4 days and already had a coulpe of epics! On saturday when we crossed the bridge into Bulgaria it was 7pm and we had already done 80 miles. Ian punctured crossing the bridge and by the time he fixed it, it was nearly dark. Cue rather thrilling (in a bad way) 5 mile ride along dual carrieageway into town of Ruse, looking for [View Full Entry]

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photos for the Hungarian entry [View Full Entry]

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well here we go again...lets try and get up to date.. Ian in the cockpit again. Seems like ages ago we last wrote. We left you in Turda in the north of Transylvania and our plan was to head south to the Saxon towns of Sighisoura and Brasov, see the castles and mountains of the Transylvanian Alps and then head due south to a border crossing to Bulgaria. We really would have like to have gone to the monastaries of the north and the 'rural idyll' of Maramures but this would have taken too long and unfortunately you cant do everything. [View Full Entry]

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It was late on in the afternoon when we crossed the border onto romania. Wow! Its different. We had a rare afternoon of sunshine and it made it look really good if still desolate. The border crossing was dead, no tat or exchange places here! the border police asked us lots of questions; more out of something to do that worries of border security!! There followed a kind of 10 mile stretch of no mans land across bare plain before the first romanian villages, and it would have seemed quite eerie were it not for the sunshine. Planning to stop [View Full Entry]

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