Turkey
Al Qamishli – Dogubayazit 2199km
“Its too steep their sir” and “Oh no, my friend that area is too cold now” and “You can’t travel on that road, their are too many soldiers, you will die”. Whilst there may have been a vain of truth in all the possible reasons why I shouldn’t cycle through Kurdistan along the D400 I [...]
Adana – Iskenderun 402km
Maybe its where I grew up or maybe its just my blindness but Britain really doesn’t have huge areas of industrial production like that that I’m beginning to see here. Whether its growing carrots or melting down scrap metal there is something honest about the production of raw materials for one’s own use – Britain [...]
Goreme – Feke 198km
I don’t think I have ever really appreciated how quiet and slow a bicycle is. Riding in the London rush hour you easily forget this sort of thing but out here in the countryside it becomes blatantly obvious and joyishly so. You begin to catch people and nature unawares and at a pace where you [...]
Cappadocia 24 km
So after a ten hour bus ride out of Istanbul and down into central Turkey we arrived in Nevsehir, a town on the outskirts of the Cappadocia. The bikes appeared from underneath the bus unscathed and primed for the trip. We spent our first day exploring this amazing valley from Goreme where volcanic eruptions created [...]
Istanbul
I’d heard so many things about Istanbul. From the old stories of Byzantium, then Constantinople and now Istanbul it has always conjured up images of a multitude of civilizations coming together. I was a bit surprised then when I arrived and felt like I was definitely still in Europe. The initial smells and sounds weren’t [...]