Crossing the Border

Erika on the bridge between Scotland and England at Gretna

April 27th 2005
After a nice long 8 night stop at my parents (with a few day trips over to Bute on the ferry, and to Edinburgh by bus) we finally left on a hot and hazy morning heading south into the wind along the coast. The wonderful views of Arran that we had been enjoying all week were non existent in the hot haze, but we had eider duck and cormorants to accompany us and we cycled on. We found ourselves on ... read more

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Erika Bird and Robin Searle

Banchory to the Bosphorous by Bike

We are Erika and Robin from Scotland and in April 2005 we quit our jobs and set off to cycle from Scotland to İstanbul. We reached İstanbul in October 2005 having discovered that cycling truly is the best way to travel and so decided to keep going beyond the Bosphorous...... We had never cycled any long distance before but had been wanting to travel for a long time and had finally saved enough and realised ıf we didn't set off now we never would. We decided cycling would be the best form of transport as we wanted to learn more about the countries and people we passed through at a s... full info

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