Day 11 - Canakkale, Turkey to Alexandroupolis, Greece . (Guest blogger contribution - Hawk) Breakfast is taken with 40 women wearing traditional headscarves. They avoid eye contact at all times, despite our best efforts to say good morning. We head into town and immediately lose Hawk, much to the amusement of the local cafe patrons as we kept missing each other. Turns out the visitor centre is on the peninsular, so onto the ferry for the twenty minute journey t...

Day 10 - Alasehir, Turkey to Canakkale, Turkey The 260 mile day began on the hunt for chain lube. The Tiger is the only bike not on shaft drive and I'd forgotten to pack any. The day before, I had spotted a Honda logo on a shop so thought we could start there. I did a quick google translate for motorcycle chain lubricant - "motosiklet zincir yaglama" and showed it to the proprietor whilst pointing at the rear sprocket. A young chap steps forward with a smatterin...

Day 9 Well what day, it had ups and downs, bends and straights. The morning was bright and sunny and about 20 degrees. We set off to find a route around the big lake. Sounds relatively simple? In fact, it takes a little while to figure it out and when we do it appears the route chosen is blocked by road works. A quick chat to a local and he convinces us its fine to just ride through the piles of boulders and soil. Slash leads the way and before long we are stan...

Day 8 - Goreme, Turkey to Beysehir, Turkey. Scheduled to be a big day with over 300 miles and lots of sight seeing. Warrior and Hawk are up early due to a time keeping malfunction but they do get to see the hot air Balloons over Goreme. We'd taken an executive decision the night before that 4am start and 150 Euros for a potentially fatal balloon trip wasn't worth it. Thrre's some very tricky cobbled sections going up hill to start especially when you throw a ...

Day 7 - Hattusa, Turkey to Goreme, Turkey After a really cold night we had an equally cold breakfast al fresco. Its less than 10 degrees which is a real shock after the heat of previous days. We start the cultural day with a visit to Hatusas museum. Some really interesting artifacts including my favorite a Hittite smurf. They also had some Sphinx which had been renovated by Germans. They tried to steal one but the Turks got it back quite recently after threatenin...