8 Comments Apart from the low key hum of Turkish music half way through the night we slept pretty well. After a breakfast of bread and jam […]
Motorhome
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8 Comments Ever since Istanbul, Vin the motorhome has attracted attention and plenty raised Turkish eyebrows. Motorhomes are a rare sight and so to are the dudes, […]
Day 14: The Amazon Warrior Women, Samsun
8 Comments Our latest post comes from Ruth & Alan, who we’ve been in contact with for the last 3 or 4 years. In 2017, they set […]
Meet More Motorhomers: Ruth & Alan
13 Comments Last night, the temperatures dropped to a point we felt the chill and woke to grab our blanket. A few hours snug under the fluffy […]
Day 11, Our First Black Sea Campsite 60p, Ayancik
13 Comments Knock knock….there’s somebody at the door! One of the park cleaners in bright blue wellies and a high viz coat stands to the rear of […]
Day 10, Panoramic Coastal Drive & Stoned at Sunset
12 Comments Our motorhome attracts the crowds and as soon as we step out of Vin we are greeted with smiles and hello’s. We chat to loads […]
Day 8 & 9, Boomshackala Black Sea Coastal Road to ...
8 Comments There’s a cockerel somewhere close by that wakes us, before it’s light. It just pips the morning wailing to the post. This is no normally […]
Day 7, Driving Along the Black Sea to Amasra Bay
18 Comments The garden sprinklers rear in to action at 4am and pulsating jets of water hit the rear of Vin. A second later and our alarm […]
Day 6, Early Rise as we Roll Our Tyres on ...
26 Comments We woke at 4.45 am feeling as if we had spent the night with our head attached to a yoyo. Up, down, up, down as […]
Day 5, Getting Lost in the Largest Bazaar in the ...
4 Comments Another early start with breakfast on route via one of the many bakers. We plonk on a bench at the side of the blue mosque […]
Day 4, The Magnificent Monuments of Istanbul
14 Comments We are suddenly woken at 6.10am from a deep sleep by the sound of squabbling birds. As we lie in bed, calm and still we […]
Day 3, The Palace of the Ottoman Empire & Kebabs, ...
15 Comments A good night’s sleep. The constant sea breeze is both a fresh air tonic and natural body coolant. I take a jog along the deserted […]
Day 2, Wandering Around Sultanahmet & Old City, Istanbul
19 Comments Slept soundly and woke bright as buttons. I tootled off for a jog in my attempt to shift a few pounds (or should I say […]
Day 1, Turkish Border Control & Onwards to Istanbul
14 Comments I sit here writing our last post from Greece, as tomorrow we head off across the border to Turkey. Its been a real dilemma this […]
The Amazing Beaches of Northern Greece
8 Comments We are sitting at the top of the Halkidiki Peninsula. Often referred to as “Poseidon’s trident” which consists of three smaller peninsulas: Kassandra, Sithonia, and […]
Wild Camping on Secluded Beaches, Halkidiki
6 Comments En-route to the Greek border we stop for breakfast at Sandanski, our final stop in Bulgaria. A small town were residents make much of the […]
Repairs, Spares & Green Card To Turkey, Thessaloniki
15 Comments As we made our way through the winding roads deep into the mountains our cell service dropped; we knew we were in for a treat. […]
The Bulgarian Mountains & Beautiful Brown Bears
10 Comments Time to say cheerio to Ivan, cough up €30 (3 days) and head to 100km to our next stopping point, Rila Monastery. But not before […]
The Spiritual and Social Life of Medieval Bulgaria, Rila
1 Comment Once through the Bulgarian border control we headed straight to Ivan’s pad in Sofia. Its a couple of years since we stayed here and the […]
Triangle of Religious Tolerance, Sofia
12 Comments Seven o’clock on a Sunday morning and there is an air of excitement. People are out in the streets again, shops are open and the […]
The Longest Passport Control Queue In Europe
8 Comments We eat breakfast and sip coffee in the car park of Studenica before we enter Serbia’s most beautiful monastery. We enter via the gate in […]
The Most Imposing Serbian Site, Maglic
8 Comments After a night of storms and wild dogs fighting over scraps, we wake rather bogged eyed and cranky. It is 5.30 am and lorries hurtle […]
Disappearing Roads & Catching Snakes, Studenica
14 Comments Early morning, we feed the station chickens and then set off for Zlatibor. Within ten minutes, the sunshine disappears and the rains returns. Poor Vin […]
A Landmine of Cow Pats as we Hug the Kosovo ...
3 Comments Today, we are taking a historical train journey, the Sargan Eight Line from Mokra Gora to Sargan Vitasi. Our initial plans to catch the 10 […]