Monthly Archives: April 2017
Bike Travel Tips
Some tips I learned on my way.
- Make an inventory of what you packed and where it is! If you don’t know anymore that you have a specific item with you or you cannot find it anymore, it’s useless.
- Always pack your stuff the same way in the same place. You’ll find the wanted items more quickly. And the risk of losing something is drastically reduced: if it’s not there, it may still be lying in the hostel under the bed…
- Create routines (putting up the tent, packing up, etc). Do it in the same sequence everytime. You’ll get really fast and don’t forget anything anymore.
- Always close the tent! Even if you just want to get something from the bike for 20 seconds! for every 10 seconds the tent is open, there’s a bug in there!
- Put everything into plastic bags, then into your panniers.
There’s always something spilling from inside (shampoo, sauce, etc) or outside (heavy rain, water crossings). the panniers won’t be water proof after the third crash…
Another advantage are with bugs: I’ve got an ant colony once in there. but they couldn’t get into my bags. And also if you catch bed bugs they won’t distribute to all your clothes and sleeping bag! - buy a sponge bag with a hook!
First night in Turkey and I’m in Troy/Troia
Found a nice little camping near the ruins of Troy. The owner is a tour guide and knows the history of Troy very well!
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Habe einen kleinen Campingplatz in der Nähe der Ruinen von Troja gefunden. Der Besitzer ist gleichzeitig Tourguide!
Camping in Greece
I tried five campsites, all were still closed. So I camped wild the first night in Greece. I then found an open one in Alexandroupolis and took half a day off…
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ich habe fünf Campings versucht, alle waren noch zu. Also habe ich in der ersten Nacht wild gezeltet. Dann habe ich einen geöffneten Zeltplatz in Alexandroupolis gefunden und einen halben Tag frei genommen.
Bulgaria
Longest border crossing until now, 30min. i even had to open my paniers. And I didn’t know that they have Turtles!
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Längster Grenzübergang bis jetzt, 30min!
Ich musste sogar meine Koffern öffnen!
Und ich wusste nicht, dass es hier Schildkröten gibt!
Country list
These are the countries I visited on this journey. I’ll continuously update the list as I’m riding along.
Here’s the whole route on a map.
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland/Schweiz: 440km
- 🇮🇹 Italy/Italien: 610km
- 🇸🇮 Slovenia/Slowenien: 20km
- 🇭🇷 Croatia/Kroatien: 810km
- 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina/Bosnien und Herzegovina: 256km
- 🇲🇪 Montenegro: 310km
- 🇷🇸 Serbia/Serbien: 25km
- Cosovo/Kosovo: 190km
- 🇦🇱 Albania/Albanien: 390km
- 🇲🇰 Macedonia/Mazedonien: 410km
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria/Bulgarien: 130km
- 🇬🇷 Greece/Griechenland: 380km
- 🇹🇷 Turkey/Türkei: 3560km
- 🇬🇪 Georgia/Georgien/Gürcistan: 400km
- 🇷🇺 Russia/Russland: 1770km
- 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan/Kasachstan: 3145km
- 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan/Kirgistan: 2474km
- 🇨🇳 China: 6782km
- 🇱🇦 Laos: 2657km
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia/Kambotscha: 1744km
- 🇹🇭 Thailand: 2970km
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia: 4149km
- 🇮🇩 Indonesia/Indonesien: 5770km
- 🇹🇱 East Timor/Timor-Leste: 150km
- 🇦🇺 Australia/Australien: 27900km
- 🇨🇱 Chile: 5000km
- 🇦🇷 Argentinia/Argentinien: 7000km
- 🇧🇴 Bolivia/Bolivien: 2300km
- 🇵🇪 Peru: 5600km
- 🇪🇨 Ecuador/Ekuador: 1200km
- 🇨🇴 Colombia/Kolumbien: 3000km
- 🇵🇦 Panama: 850km
- 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: 950km
- 🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1000km
- 🇭🇳 Honduras: 150km
- 🇸🇻 El Salvador: 300km
- 🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1000km
- 🇧🇿 Belize: 480km
- 🇲🇽 Mexico/Mexiko: 5350km
- 🇺🇸USA: 15500km (19 States: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York)
- 🇨🇦 Canada/Kanada: 450km
- 🇲🇦 Morocco/Marokko: 3600km
- 🇪🇸 Spain/Spanien: 3100km
- 🇵🇹 Portugal: 2000km
- 🇫🇷 France/Frankreich: 1000km