Yayladagi/Turkey.Syria just denied my entrance because of my Israel visit in 2009.Syria and Israel are in conflict since the six day war in 1967 .Because of Israel still occupies the Golan Heights,Syria denies anybody the entrance into the country who visited Israel before! Syrien hat mir gerade die einreise verweigert wegen meines Israelischen Passstempels von [...]
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These last day’s i was riding along the south coast of turkey,where live is very simple and tourists centers are far away.I stopped at a bar for water and food (picture) where apparently the ownerns also slept in it.They also had a little handycapt kid .So i asked the customers if one of them speaks [...]
[Mehr...]Mittwoch morgen trat ich die Heimreise von Antalya wieder an. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt hab ich von Peter nichts mehr gehoert. Etwas unheimlich … Gott sei Dank heute um 18:25 Uhr ein Lebenszeichen – er ist sehr muede, weil die Kuestenstrasse Richtung Syrische Grenze staendig ein Bergab und -auf sind. Dann teilweise auch Schotterpiste und das bei extrem [...]
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It’s now almost one month since i started from my hometown Saint Peter in Austria and since them I’ve been on my bike for 2500 km.Apart the broken pedal-bearings,i didn’t had one single problem,not even a flat tire. In the last days i crossed Turkey from Istanbul to the south coast (800km) on much less frequented and stressful roads.Life is [...]
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Wind and heat were the key-points in these days.Instead of fighting against the wind,i decided to follow the strong north-south breeze through the wide open inland of turkey with its endless kornfield’s.The best riding hours are from sunrise till midday because with the extreme heat the roads starts melting and it turns out to identical glue [...]
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It took me 2 hours to get out of Istanbul and crossing the bosporus bridge from europe to asia wasn’t easy at all.I got close to the bridge on a small road,went through a hole in the fence,liftet my bike over the guardrail and there i was,right on the entrance of the bridge (picture).Its a highway [...]
[Mehr...]From now on the trip will get a bit “wilder” and for some time it wont be possible to ship the new pedals.I only fixed the old ones with the broken bearings provisorily and they gave my already some knee and ankle problems.I hope they arrive from my technical supporter “Radfuchs” from Austria to my new friend [...]
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It was rush hour when i approached Istanbul with it’s estimated 15 million inhabitants on the highway.Not the most comfortable way,but the only one…Speeding trucks who pass by only a few centimeters of my handlebar where the biggest challenge, i love challenges.In total it was very much comparable to a Sprint final of a Tour de [...]
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