the slower the better! Enjoy, enjoy! I miss being on the saddle! Thanks for sharing! Lats year I cycled from Gansu (China) to Uzbekistan... The Pamirs and Kyrgyzstan were definite highlights! Great to hear you paired up for this adventure!
Need more news ! Hi Clive ...You provide us all with the best travel saga possible...but you've gone quiet...it's worse than waiting for new episodes of Downton Abbey !...we NEED to hear of your latest adventures .
I wondered what had happened to interrupt your trip... and am sorry to hear about your Dad's passing. What a wonderful chance to join such a wonderful family and the hospitable people of Iran.
MAGIC CARPET RIDE Your trip through Iran is like a magic carpet ride of some of the best known Persian rug areas...one of my favourites is Kashan. This pic reminds me of the mud cities of Mali but with a Persian feel...if this is Iran...sign me up!!!
Good on you! Clive, I enjoyed reading your blog on Iran. In 2013 I cycled from China to Uzbekistan. The plan was to keep on going through Turkmenistan and then Iran but I had to get back home to please my lady ;-) ... Thanks for sharing your story. I can't wait to cycle Iran... in 2015 I hope... Enjoy India! If you make it to China, email me! All the best to you!
Back on the road Hallo,
Nice te hear from you again.
After I came home with my motocycle last year, I was working for 6 months. In 4 weeks that project will be finisched and than I will spend also again 4 months for traveling.
Fascinated by your article Hi Clive,
How wonderful to read your blog today. Inwas thinking about you just a few days and had decided that I needed to write as I had not heard about your progress for too long, so your timing is excellent.
As always you write beautifully and fill me with envy and praise for your big adventure. I have always heard how wonderful Iranian hospitality is, and despite so many dreadful stories in the news etc which we both know scaremonger, I am so pleased to hear that it is all true. And that you are benefitting from your refusal to be intimidated
Blast from the past Totally stumbled on your blog today. Dont know if you are still travelling, but from what I can see you are doing an amazing thing! Stay safe, and hopefully, one day, I'll catch up with you and buy you a drink!
Paul
Yoohoo from NZ ! Hey, Clive, amazing photos once again and really enjoying your blog. It really has been an amazing experience for you !
Sorry to hear about your Dad ; difficult emotions all round I imagine . The UK will seem a very bizarre country when you get home after all you have seen and done but I am sure it will be good to be a support for your Dad. We will keep the beer in the fridge for when you get back on the saddle ! Xxx
I'm sorry to hear about your dad... you made the right decision to be near him as he goes through treatment.
You might want to read jeremyaroundtheworld's recent blogs of his biking trip through the area you are about to cross although he did so a couple months ago so the weather was warmer.
Pamir!! Clivey dude, finally you made it to my favorite country of all! Thank you for the nice candid fotos of the people, it's like a trip down memory lane, nicest folks I've met in Central Asia and the scenery ain't too bad eh?!! Best of luck as you make your way up to Murghab and into Kyrg.. and if you see Tommy our guide from our Giselle truck days, send my regards I will come there again next year..safe travels..
Back on the Silk Road Clive - The blogs are superb - you seem to have the knack of meeting people everywhere (your facility with languages helps!) and now you are back on the Silk Road you are reminding me of places I've seen and been to, although from a rather more comfortable seat on a Drago truck - so keep the stories coming. Not sure what your future route will be but if following our truck route the Pamirs will be bloody cold in winter so don't forget a condensation cover for the sleeping bag. I am still hoping you will get to travel down the Thai/Malay pennisula so we can meet up for a dive or two (I go back for 6 weeks at the end this month, with a week on a liveaboard).
Spent a very pleasent afternoon last week over a beer or three (actually more like 4 or 5!) with Molly Eddington from the India trip as she stopped off in the UK on the way from Sri Lanka to Peru for the final bit of her 18 months travel. We both send best wishes with happy memories of our afternoon/evening session in Ellora last Jan.
Kit
Nice to hear from you. Nice to receive some new post from you.
I read that you splitt up with Derek, but that you see each other in the city's.
Say hi from me to him.
Good going mate Hi mate, well done you, looks like you're having the time of your life, (probably because you are). Fantastic blog, lovely to hear all about the places you've visited and the people you've met. If only I'd had a night stop in Baku, we could have met for a beer or 6. I've subscribed now so I'll be able to follow your progress as soon as it's posted. Got to go now, cows water trough is overflowing and I need to replace the ball valve. See what you're missing. Wishing you good luck and safe cycling, take care, Nick & Jo K
Over 5 years have passed since I cycled around the UK and Ireland and the time has come to get back in the ol' saddle. This time I will attempt to initially make the shores of New Zealand, initially cycling through Europe to Istanbul, the gateway to Asia, before following the silk routes through Central Asia and China to the Far East. Following a flight or preferably a boat journey to Australia, I will attempt to cycle across the Nullabor from Perth to Sydney, before heading onwards to New Zealand. I look forward to sharing my journey with you.... full info
Samuel David
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Good blog
Excellent blog...amazing pictures. Really enjoyed it very much.