It is grand time to tell you the end of our journey. i have reached france by the end of july as planned but haven’t written anything consistent since our stop in montenegro, so let’s go back in time a little… after the 2-day stop in budva (the ‘french riviera of montenegro’) we spent a night in what seemed to be the garden of an abandone

We left duboka and our new friends martin and gunni (see previous post) with a little pinch in the heart after their great welcome and hospitality. we were happy the bike was working again - but for how long? would it hold to montpellier? i was indeed quite anxious as the noise made by the valves coupled with the mysterious noise inside the engine

A month has passed since the end of the journey. i spent this month settling down, readjusting to france (that is to say enjoying good stinky cheese and wine not comparable to indian sula), seeing family and friends. titine is staying still in the back of my mom’s building – she deserved some rest after this 9 000 km journey through dubai, iran

What has become to our souls and bodies the last couple of days? i am sure that it is a question a few of you have asked yourselves although not in these specific terms... :) well my tonsilitis has finally gone away (after 12 days of antibiotics) : the rest in rasht was welcome and for sure salvatory for my health. we spent 48 hours there and met h

After velingrad our plan was to reach the adriatic going through macedonia and albania. reaching the macedonian border, we decided to take another route (through greece and then albania) because the customs officers declared to us that the insurance cost was going to be 50 eur per bike!!! too much for less than 24 hours we thought...sniff! macedoni

Just a few lines to apologize on the lack of updates on the blog. parents, friends, we are well and alive... be reassured! there was no time or no internet connection on the way from istanbul to montenegro.... we just reached montenegro this morning through albania. the journey from istanbul to here has been quite a trick, full of adventures, campi

Dear all, as told in the previous post we have been going through a few adventures since our stay in istanbul...who would have guessed that after reaching europe so many exciting things would have happened to us? we left quietly istanbul to enter the lovely country of bulgaria in which i already stopped for a couple of days in 2004 and had a very g

We reached istanbul friday evening : the trafic is heavy, fast and almost deadly when you enter the city as our bikes cannot go faster than 70-80 km/hour and the cars and bus are all going above a hundred! i was so happy to cross the bridge over the bosphorus i was yelling all alone full of excitment on the bike (i don't remember exactly what i was

Yes, we crossed turkey and i am writing to you from the european side of the bosphorus (western sıde of istanbul). pretty cool hein? the crossing of turkey was done in 6 full days total with a 2 nıght stop in cappadocia where we finally went - we dont regret the detour. out of the 5 nıghts spent on the way we dıd wıld campıng as usual and we

We are still alive and the bikes as well... titine broke its engine gasket in south croatia and it took more than 3 days to repair it thanks to a fisrt class german engineer...i will tell all about it soon... titine has been repaired to reach france and then die...it has not given up yet and we visited venetia for a couple of hours yesterday... we