thanks
Many people have helped us during our journey in ways both big and small. This page is a big shout out to all the helpers and our way of saying a big THANK YOU!
Other help along the way
- Julie and Will provided cups of tea and tour of Bushy Park
- Being let into the closed campsite at Santa Maria to camp under the reception awning
- A bottle of wine from Cecillio after finding out his son was cycle touring in New Zealand
- A chat and a cup of tea with a back-packing english couple at the campground in Gerliz
- A box of lovely chocolates from a Bavarian couple we met at St-Marsal
- Inspiration and advice from Going Slowly and Travelling Two
- Reception at campsite Alba Village for their help arranging delivery of our new mats. Fingers crossed they arrive OK.
- Campground Michelangelo in Florence for accepting delivery of our new mats and holding onto them until we arived
- The helpful guides on our forest walk to Casa San Antonio in Regello who provided us with a wonderful walk, wine and a BBQ
- Pero Skorie at Skradin-Skorici campsite for inviting us in for dinner after a long day cycling
- German cycle tourist Gerhard we met in Split campground for suggesting a much flatter route into Bosnia than we had planned
- Mario and family for letting their kids entertain us, lending us a mask and feeding us snacks
Other help along the way
- Countless cups of cay from welcoming Turkish cay shops
- A free room to sleep in beside a fish restaurant in Agva
- Being let into a cafe closed for the winter by the owners son to spend the night with a warm fire the day we left Sinop
- Being given bags of hazelnuts from various people outside Samsun and in Giresun
- Sleeping in a beachfront campsite for free just before Trabzon
- Having use of a skyscraper apartment in Moscow thanks to Warmshowers host Michael
- Fellow passengers on our Russian trains for helping with our bike boxes - no thanks to grouchy carriage attendants though!
- Guests staying in Aktash for sharing their 3G dongle with us giving us first proper internet access in 3 weeks!
- The GoKunming website for helping us with our route planning in Southern China
- Eeva for letting us to feed her cat and look after her wonderful apartment in Vientiane for a week of city living sophistication