If you get updates on the route and covid, be good to post them here (or in an appropriately titled thread), I'll do the same as I'm sure others will
Good idea. Will do.
If you get updates on the route and covid, be good to post them here (or in an appropriately titled thread), I'll do the same as I'm sure others will
I'm planning/hoping to ride to Mongolia next July & August. Shipping the bike to Bulgaria then riding across to Turkey, ferry across the Caspian Sea then through the 'Stans via the Pamir highway. I'm not sure if the Wakhan Corridor will be on the menu now, it depends on what the Taliban are doing with it.
Should've been doing it this year, can't keep putting it off though as I'm getting old.......
Have you managed to find a provider to transport the bikes?
Despite having most of it planned out, I have put my 2022 plans to ride to Kiev on hold, at least for now.
With the ongoing fuss over Covid going on, I think it’s easier to play each month or quarter as it comes. Kiev will not go away, so I can wait.
I was hitchhiking in Bulgaria in '69 and got a lift with a family with four children. They insisted I got in and sat in the front passenger seat next to the wife, with the husband driving. Some time later they saw some police at the side of the road and the wife screamed and dived down by my feet under the dash, they explained later by means of sign language that they would have been in trouble if they had been seen driving an overloaded car.If you fancy a city visit when in Bulgaria I can recommend Varna. I was there when it was a communist country in the early 80's. Well worth a visit and plenty of beaches along that stretch of the coast for your swim.
Not sure of prices these days but I remember going out for a meal, four of us including wine and a horse drawn carriage back to our digs was 16 quid in total.
Lovely people the Bulgarians and can't do enough for you.
Are the Romanian women nice then?
My plans for a possible jaunt to Kiev in 2022 are now definitely out of the window. Just as the world starts to look like it’s emerging from Covid, that cnut in Moscow, starts to ferment more trouble.
My plans for a possible jaunt to Kiev in 2022 are now definitely out of the window. Just as the world starts to look like it’s emerging from Covid, that cnut in Moscow, starts to ferment more trouble.
I'm sticking with my original plans, wild camping in Welsh forests... oh and I suspect it's not the cnut in Moscow that's causing the shit storm, it's the West that needs a war right now and the sticks they are poking him with are getting biggerMy plans for a possible jaunt to Kiev in 2022 are now definitely out of the window. Just as the world starts to look like it’s emerging from Covid, that cnut in Moscow, starts to ferment more trouble.
I'm sticking with my original plans, wild camping in Welsh forests... oh and I suspect it's not the cnut in Moscow that's causing the shit storm, it's the West that needs a war right now and the sticks they are poking him with are getting bigger
Ive never been to Wales on a train, it's on my bucket list though. The line to Pwllheli looks an interesting one..... I am going to Wales today. I am going on the train.
Ive never been to Wales on a train, it's on my bucket list though. The line to Pwllheli looks an interesting one.
I'm still hoping to get as far as the Black Sea but not via Ukraine this year. And certainly no further east this year, hopefully 2023.
Putin sells himself as the guardian of Mother Russia, their protector and has a large ego that needs feeding I'm afraid and he can't be seen (at home) to lose face. Whether there is a diplomatic or military solution, it has to be one that he can sell to the voters.
It has not been possible to get a vehicle into Morocco for two years now.All options being considered just now as heading east may not be possible or wise. See what develops.