| Introduction: Looking for a better way to travel |
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| Challenges: aka Reasons people think I'm crazy |
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| Approximate gear list: This is what happens when you go cheap in a foreign city |
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Turkey |
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| Getting Ready: A taste of Istanbul traffic |
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| Day 1 - Istanbul to Kemerburgaz: Why, oh why, didn't I start in Holland? |
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| Day 2 - Kemerburgaz to Akalan: Bring on the trucks and the dogs |
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| Day 3 - Rest Day: Equipment trouble, the nicest village in Turkey, and a change of plans |
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| Day 4 - Akalan to Sultankoy: There is no momentum, only gravity and wind |
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| Day 5 - Sultankoy to past Tekirdag: Getting the hang of it |
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| Day 6 - to Kesan: Hills, hills, hills |
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| Day 7 - Rest Day |
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Greece |
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| Day 8 - Kesan, Turkey to Alexandroupoli, Greece: I biked to another country! |
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| Day 9 - Alexandroupoli to Palladio: First day of rain |
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| Day 10 - Palladio to Palio: First 100km day ever |
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| Day 11 - Palio to Apollonia: Two types of people |
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| Day 12 - Apollonia to Thessaloniki: Brutal day |
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| Day 13-14 - Rest Days |
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Macedonia |
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| Day 15 - Thessaloniki to Gyavato: A change of pace |
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| Day 16 - Gyavato to Stobi: Riding at night |
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| Day 17 - Stobi to Prilep: Into the mountains |
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| Day 18 - Prilep to Bitola: Floods |
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| Day 20 - Bitola to Resen: Snow day |
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| Day 21 - Resen to Ohrid: Beautiful winter day |
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| Day 23 - Day trip from Ohrid: Shattered delusions of grandeur |
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| Day 25 - Ohrid to Debar: Unnecessarily up |
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| Day 26 - Debar to Gostivar: I'm not in the mood |
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| Day 27 - Gostivar to Skopje: Insanity. Why else would I do this? |
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| Day 28-30 - Lazy days in Skopje |
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Serbia |
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| Day 31 - Skopje to Vranje: One month wiser |
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| Day 32 - Vranje to Leskovac: Winter was supposed to keep the bugs away |
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| Day 33 - Leskovac to Nis: Headwinds - 4, Me - 0 |
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| Day 34 - Nis to Paracin: Headwinds - 7, Me - 0 |
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| Day 35 - Paracin to Radinac: Unexpectedly long day |
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| Day 36 - Radinac to Belgrade: Really bad road |
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| Day 39 - Belgrade to Krajisnik: Puppies, kittens, and my best day in Serbia |
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Romania |
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| Day 40 - Krajisnik to Timisoara: Riding right off the map |
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| Day 41 - Timisoara to Arad: Nowhere to go |
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| Day 43 - Arad to Satu Mare: I cheated |
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Ukraine |
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| Day 44 - Satu Mare to Berehove: Back in the USSR |
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| Day 45-46 - Getting to Lviv: Relax, can't you see how eerily calm it is? |
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| Time off in Ukraine: We all have baggage |
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Poland, Part 1 |
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| Day 51 - Lviv to Przemysl: The final frontier |
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| Day 52 - Przmysl to Rzeszow: Rewriting the tourist brochure |
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| Day 53 - Rzeszow to Tarnow: Sorry, Poland, if I keep misspelling all your place names |
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| Day 54 - Tarnow to Wieliczka: Good thing the earth decided to be flat today |
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| Day 55-56 - Rest days not in Krakow: I spent my days off working in a salt mine |
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| Day 57 - Wieliczka to Szczawa: Winter strikes again |
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| Day 58 - Another village name I can't spell: Sneaking into (and out of) Slovakia |
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Slovakia |
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| Day 59 - Cerveny Klastor to Vrbov: Steep hills and dead legs |
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| Day 60 - Vrbov to Spisska Nova Ves: Perfect weather to sit outside and not bike |
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| Day 61-62 - Days off: Lazy and stupid |
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| Day 63 - Spisska Nova Ves to Bacuch: Victory at last! |
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| Day 64 - Bacuch to Banska Bystrica: ...and then I ate the bowl! |
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| Day 65 - Banska Bystrica to Levice: Why do you hate me so, Slovakia? |
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| Day 66 - Levice to Diakovce: How many Slovaks does it take to change a lightbulb? |
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| Day 67 - Diakovce to Bratislava: Eurovelo 6, the hard way |
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Austria |
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| Day 69 - Bratislava to Tulln: Unfinished business in Vienna |
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| Day 70 - Tulln to Persenbeug: And this is why everyone else goes west to east |
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| Day 71 - Persenbeug to Linz: This really is Eurovelo 6 the hard way |
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| Day 72 - Linz to Vyssi Brod: What mountain? That's a small hill |
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Czech Republic |
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| Day 73 - Vyssi Brod to Cesky Krumlov: Easy, pleasant day (boring for you, great for me) |
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| Day 75 - Cesky Krumlov to Jindrichuv Hradec: If this is spring, I want winter back |
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| Day 76 - Jindrichuv Hradec to Trebic: Be careful what you wish for |
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| Day 77 - Trebic to Brno: Once a cheater, always a cheater |
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| Day 79 - Brno to Boskovice: No time to lose, so I wasted a few hours |
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| Day 80 - Boskovice to Stity: More of the same |
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| Day 81 - Stity (CZ) to Frankenstein (PL): Easter Beatings |
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Poland, Part 2 |
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| Day 82 - Frankenstein to Wroclaw: The snow is gone but I found something worse |
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| Day 83-84 - Badly needed rest days |
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| Day 85 - Wroclaw to Witoldowo: Enchanted forests |
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| Day 86 - Witoldowo to Poznan: An ordinary day in Poland |
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| Day 87 - Poznan to somewhere in a forest: Making fun of Poland again |
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| Day 88 - somewhere in a forest to Torun: The wind wins |
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| Day 90 - Torun to Kwidzyn: Long day and not much to say |
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| Day 91 - Kwidzyn to Gdansk: From the Bosphorus to the Baltic! No, wait, I still have a few weeks left. |
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| Day 92-93 - G'day Gdansk |
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| Day 94 - Gdansk to Orneta: Rushing across Poland |
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| Day 95 - Orneta to Ketrzyn: Tomorrow will be far more interesting |
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| Day 96 - Ketrzyn to Duly: When Nazis roamed the earth |
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Lithuania |
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| Day 97 - Duly (PL) to Leipalingis (LT): Just try to stop me |
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| Day 98 - Leipalingis to Spengla: When Soviets roamed the earth |
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| Day 99 - Spengla to Vilnius: When Aussies roamed the earth |
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| Day 101 - Vilnius to Kaunas: Well, that was easy |
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| Day 102 - Kaunas to Jurbarkas: Spring ride |
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| Day 103 - Jurbarkas to Silute: A rocky ride |
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| Day 104 - Silute to Klaipeda: I don't want to talk about it |
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| Day 105 - Day trip to Curonian Spit |
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| Day 107 - Klaipeda to Plokstine: Strangewind or: How I Learned to Stop Pedalling and Love the Bomb Museum |
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Latvia |
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| Day 108 - Plokstine (LT) to Zante (LV): My longest ride yet |
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| Day 109 - Zante to Riga: Back on the Baltic |
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| Day 110 - Riga to somewhere along the coast: Life's a beach |
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Estonia |
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| Day 111 - to Parnu: Oh no, the Germans are coming |
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| Day 112 - Parnu to Roosna-Alliku: The unusual subtleties of Estonian |
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| Day 113 - Roosna-Alliku to Sagadi: Tanks and guns and the oldest park |
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| Day 114 - Lahemaa National Park: Inching toward Tallinn |
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| Day 115 - Lahemaa to Tallinn: Still feels like winter |
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| So I guess this is it |
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