On September 4th, we completed our 3rd year on the road. To tell the story of one year of cycling, we’ve put together a little slideshow of some of our favourite pictures and a few crucial numbers. Just click on the photo to start the show…
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A year in numbers
Posted September 4th, 2009
Stung Meanchey Slideshow
Posted August 6th, 2008
Here are the pictures we took out at the Stung Meanchey landfill when we went with a charity to give food to the children working in this sad and dangerous place. The images will give you some idea of what they are facing but can’t convey the smell, the flies and the smoke they inhale every day. Towards the end of the slideshow are some cheerier images of ‘lucky’ children at a nearby orphanage. They don’t have a lot either but at least they are fed, get some school lessons and they don’t have to rummage through trash every day just to make a few cents. Click on the photo to start the slideshow.
Photos from Esfahan
Posted March 9th, 2008
In the midst of our visa runaround, we managed to squeeze in three days in Esfahan – one of the most beautiful cities we’ve had the good fortune to visit on our trip. There’s a saying in Persian that Esfahan is half the world and you can see why when you take the time to experience its beautiful mosaic-covered mosques, stroll across its bridges and sit in its gardens. Simply wonderful. Here are a few of our favourite photos from the past few days. Click on the picture to see the slideshow.
Looking back on 2007
Posted January 1st, 2008
A very Happy New Year to all our friends and family! We wish everything wonderful for you as we continue on our journey in 2008. We enjoyed ringing in the New Year in Gaziantep, Turkey, sampling their sugar-saturated baklava, washed down with a beer or two. In a few days we’ll be in Iran and we’re excited about that but we also have so many wonderful memories from the past year. Here are some of our favourite photos from the last twelve months. Click on the photo to start the slideshow. Enjoy!
A year on the road
Posted September 2nd, 2007
It’s hard to believe a year has passed since we set out on the road with our bikes and four bags each: 15,774km later — the equivalent of cycling from Yellowknife to Saint John’s and back again — we’ve seen 14 countries, spent two out of every three days on the road and slept 202 nights in our tent.
We cut our cycle touring teeth in Canada, rediscovering parts of our country we thought we knew well, but which actually looked so different from the seat of a bicycle. A few months later we were pedalling through Europe and many people told us we should just go straight to Asia.
“Save some money,” they said. “It’s too expensive here and nothing worth seeing.”
But we wanted to discover our backyard before setting off for far-flung lands and we are so glad we didn’t miss the Tarn gorges in France, sipping sherry in Spain or climbing the mountain passes of the Alps.
We fit in a tour of Morocco, reaching the desert dunes of Merzouga and Zagora, and now we are sitting on Italy’s Adriatic coastline, waiting for a ferry later this month which will take us to northern Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and some unknown combination of countries towards China or India. The visa muddle hasn’t quite been sorted out yet but there are so many interesting routes that no matter whether we choose to go via Iran, the Central Asian states of Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan or north towards Russia we are sure our journey will not be boring.
You can click on the photo for a slideshow of some of the best pictures from our first year.
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