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- First nights in Bosnia
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- Day of food – Croatia
- Camp Croatia
- 5000 kilometre photo
- Greeting to the Croatian sun
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- Surreal ride up coast to Ancona
- Road to Piano Grande
- Day of food – Italy
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First nights in Bosnia
Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Reading about Bosnia we saw that campsites were few and far between and that wild camping was potentially dangerous due to the risk of landmines. To date we had camped around 70% of the time across Europe and we weren’t too keen to change our plans (and budget) to encompass hotels or something similar. – Posted by Justin
Greeting to the Croatian sun
Monday, July 5th, 2010
As I watched the sun came up over the ocean from the deck of our ferry the size of the mountains ahead made my legs ache in sympathy. The mountains seemed to stretch the length of the coast and extend into the ocean where only their tips were visible in the form of strings of bobbing islands. It was 5:30am and already I could feel the heat of the sun and see small glimmers of heat haze on the bleached white hulls of the becalmed fishing boats as they passed through the wake of the ferry. – Posted by Justin
Road to Piano Grande
Monday, June 28th, 2010
To the title music from a spaghetti western we headed off into the sunset on the road to Piano Grande. Well at least that’s how I had pictured it when I first read a guide book description of the Piano Grande area. – Posted by Justin
Website updates
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
When we have time we try to add new features and content to our website on top of the blog posts and photos we try to regularly update. Some of the recent things we have added (and fixed) are described in this post. – Posted by Justin
Hill climbing thoughts
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Why is that we seem to enjoy climbing hills on our fully loaded bikes so much? While slowly pedalling uphill I have had time to think about this and ponder if my aching legs are really worth any or all of; the beautiful view, the long downhill, a stop for snacks at the top. – Posted by Justin
Cherries at Casa Nova
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Back in Alba we had made contact with a few Warm Showers hosts in Bologna to see if they had room for us to stay for a few days while were were trying to arrange the delivery of our new sleeping mats. One of these hosts, Kersten, responded that she had moved to a small town called Sassoleone in the hills north of Florence. After leaving the Po River valley and still with no campsites (or showers) in sight we decided to head towards Sassoleone for a few days with Kersten. – Posted by Justin
Italian impressions
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Our last day in France saw us hoping for an easy ride across the Col de Braus and into Italy through a small pass to the north of Nice. However after a roadside chat with local cyclist Patrick, we were a little more cautious. He said we would never make it on our heavy bikes to Italy on that day as we had 3 passes and at least 15km of climbing ahead. – Posted by Justin
Free Camping Thoughts
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
At the start of this trip our closest experience to free camping had been asking for permission from a farmer to use one of his fields while cycling LEJOG last year, so basically we had never done it before. Since our very first night on the road in the UK we have had to embrace free camping whether through choice or necessity. – Posted by Justin
Gorge(ous) riding
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
After we left Yves and Ingrid on a bright Thursday morning we had a rough route planned that would take in the Gorges du Tarn and the Gorges de L’Ardeche both of which had come highly recommended by Ingrid. Travelling through the two gorges would also align us to continue further East towards Italy. – Posted by Justin
Fresh Bread & Blue Cheese
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
We arrived at Yves and Ingrid’s beautiful home after days of camping in snow and rain. They had contacted us by email offering us the chance to visit them and as we tried to resolve the problems with our tent their offer seemed to good to be true. Before we arrived we had decided that we would stay 2 nights giving us the chance to recover a little and make plans for our route ahead. – Posted by Justin