Iberia is a mere 8 miles across the water from Morocco and yet as we ride across it and read about it, we find it’s another region with a long and surprising history – in this case from over 1.2 million years of inhabitation when Homus Erectus walked these lands. It is hard to think […]
We’re always being asked if we’re bored yet, riding around the world. The answer is no and never. Each day is one of new discovery and it’s an education that no classroom or lecture could ever impart. This is very hard to put into words – as any motorcyclist will say.
Wednesday June 29th Rather than take a rest day today we decide to save it up as there’s not much here apart from the one—visit-worth temple, so we decide to make it a transition day instead and we make our way further east from Boribudur. But it’s a late (8.30am) start because a dawn walk […]
Saturday June 25th We’ve survived Sumatra roads!! Did the final 110kms this morning and then crossed on the Bakauheni-Merak ferry to Java. Smooth embarkation and flat crossing of just 2 hours – man there’s a lot of ferries plying this route, reflecting just how busy these roads are. Then a quick 35 km run to […]
3rd day riding, 160kms that feels like 400km such is the stress of dodging everything on the road. Two great road stops though, the first for morning tea in a shed roadside in the jungle where the offering was hot water and a packet of biscuits. As is the protocol during Ramadan, we knew it […]
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