Tag Archives: Caroline Irvine
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Istanbul
July 29th, 2010 WE’RE HERE!! We arrived in Istanbul yesterday afternoon after a long and hellish day coming from Tekirdag. About 30km after we left Tekirdag, Caroline suggested that instead of waiting for the traffic to die down on the way to Istanbul and having to spend another night sleeping at a gas station, we […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Greece and Turkey
July 27th 2010 Well, this update will be the final one from the road if things go according to plan. We had two great rest days in Komotini in the sweltering heat (topped out at 43 degrees one day according to a pharmacy´s thermometer), chilled out for a day on the beach and swam for […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Greece: Why it hates us
July 23rd, 2010 This update is a special one, comprising a list of things of things that can kill/maim/cause considerable harm or otherwise greatly impede your progress when cycling through Greece: 1) Bees: Within our first 30km in Greece, Colin was stung by a bee. Not knowing if he was allergic he went to the […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Albania
July 16th, 2010 Day 55 – Left Campsite at Ulcinj, Montenegro early and cycled a beautiful, quiet and narrow road through rural Montenegro to the new joint border crossing with Albania (inaugurated just last year in June). On the way to the border, we got lots of waves, honks and smiles from farmers and other […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Montenegro
July 12th, 2010 We are now in Budva, Montenegro after taking two easy 100km days. On day 52 we passed through Bosnia (all 13km of it!), found out it used a different currency (we didn’t know the exchange rate so spent an unknown amount of money at the grocery store). We decided that while we […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Slovenia & Croatia
July 5th, 2010 Yesterday we decided to take a day off so we only rode for 25km out of a very hilly Italy into Slovenia where we found a great place to camp in a pine tree plantation. We spent most of the day in Trieste on the internet looking up words and phrases in […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany and Italy
July 4th, 2010 This update will be done day by day from our last day off (some in point form because we don’t have much time) Day 37 – Great start to the day with more bike paths all the way to Lustenau where our friend Mathias would host us for the weekend. – Spent […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010, Spain Part II
June 4th, 2010 Well, it´s been a while since our last update as we were trying to focus on cycling long distances for the past 8 days. In the future we will definitely try and update more frequently!! Needless to say, the last 8 days have been very eventful. We left Marbella early in the […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010: Spain Part I
May 24th, 2010 Well, here we are stinking up an internet cafe in Sevilla after 5 sweaty days on the road without a shower! We sometimes feel very self-conscious when we come into civilization where everything and everyone is clean and well dressed. We occasionally get looks of disdain when we walk down the street […]
Archives: Lisbon – Istanbul 2010: Portugal
May 18th, 2010 We arrived in Lisbon today after a sleepless night at the airport! Caroline took the train into London the night before and Colin’s flight was nearly cancelled due to the volcanic ash from Iceland threatening air travel over Dublin. We “built” our bikes on the floor of the airport after landing. Since […]
Seeking the Steeps 