CHINA, 12th January 2018 So we have made it to China, but did we make it across the border without using motor vehicles? Read on and you’ll find out: 12th January 2018: Day Seven – 47 kilometres Dea made the…
#051: Mission To Mori Update: Zharkent, Kazakhstan, 11th January 2018
KAZAKHSTAN, 11th January 2018 We have made it to Zharkent, 35 kilometres from the Chinese border. Here’s how we got here: 9th January 2018: Day Four – 0 kilometres Dea’s knee was giving her some pain in the morning and…
#050: Mission To Mori Update: Shelek, Kazakhstan – 8th January 2018
KAZAKHSTAN, 8th January 2018 Getting back to Mori by bicycle has been Chris’s goal for a long, long time now (ever since he had to take a lift with a relatively-attractive-yet-ever-so-moody Mongolian woman for one measly kilometre), and we’re going…
#049: A winter break in Bishkek and Almaty (for Chris)
KYRGYZSTAN, 21st November 2017 With the departure of Dea, Liz and Leo from Friend’s Guesthouse I was left all alone, ironically enough, without any friends. There were a couple of other cyclists, but their bikes were in boxes and within…
#048: Dea going to Almaty and Denmark on missions (im?)possible
KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN and DENMARK, 21st November 2017 – 2nd January 2018 ”Team 3” I pronounced as Liz, Leo and I posed for our departure picture outside Friend’s Guesthouse in Bishkek. ”Because we are three people, with names consisting of three letters,…
#036: Across the Kazakh steppe we ride
KAZAKHSTAN, 16th – 25th August 2017 I tried to remain calm. There wasn’t space in the minibus for everyone to go at the same time anyway, so I walked a little away from it, to the back of the queue.…