A day in our lives. I thought after so many question about our trip I would write about a typical day in our lives to give some perspective to what it takes to be on the road for months. We usually get up between 7am and 8am, we will go and have showers and while Julie is away making her self beautiful I will pack up the inside of the tent, sleeping bags, mattresses, pillows and other gear apart from our bags. When Julie returns we have breakfast, then pack the...

From Nemrut Dagi our next stop would be Hattusas, the ruins of a city that date back nearly 3500 years, but like everything in Turkey, it was a long way away and would take us two days to get there and unfortunately there are few camp grounds and some of the hotels are less than good, as we were about to find out. We were coming into Pinabasi when a German biker riding another BMW came along side and gestures for us to stop with him. So when he pulled in for fuel...

We left Bulgaria and headed for the Turkish border crossing, the crossing point was huge with buildings and people everywhere, easily the biggest crossing we had been through and easily the worst. Turkey really needs to smarten their act up if this is their most major crossing, there is not enough room in this blog to tell you what went wrong, but it cost us three times more than it should have and it took us over two hours to get through, enough said! From the c...

We entered Bulgaria with great expectations as a lot of people had said we must visit here or there. The first place we stopped was Blagoevgrad, just over the border. It was a rather busy and rundown city that had a rather soviet feel to it. This probably came from the fact that people were coming up to us to find out where we had been and where we were going, one man pulled up on his 1938 BMW, it was in great condition and obviously his pride and joy. The feel ...

When we tried to enter Macedonia we found our Green Card insurance wasn't valid and we needed to buy some, this could be arranged by phone with a broker in a town 15Km away, on the phone it was going to cost us €50 plus €5 for the taxi out and back. When everything was done the man wanted €65, I reminded him of the phone conversation, but it was a different man, so we settled on €60, still bloody expensive! We were headed to Lake Orhid in the South East ...