Gideon

0810’08 Austria (Close to Zell am See)

So we had our first day of driving together and all I can say is what a perfect start.

After making a quick stop at post-office this morning to send some personal stuff home we managed to finally leave dear old München. Not without a proper farewell [...]

16 Oct 2008
Arrived in Istanbul last night. (In the dark again) What an absolutely phenominal city. Driving into the city I was overwhelmed by it all. Traffic is ridiculous, especially in peak hour. I loved the chaos though. Everyone for themselves and no rules on the road really. It somehow works very well. What a [...]

Didn’t write anything in the last few days. All is going well and we’re still having an awesome time. Here are some pics.
Gideon

Am still in Turkey at the moment. Haven’t had time to write and also haven’t been in the mood. Sorry guys. It takes me forever to write even a short post. So we’re in Adana in the South of Turkey which is sort-of an industrial city. Not exactly fitting the profile of our so-called Africa-trip [...]

Although I’m normally not so much in the mood for writing after a day of riding I’m doing so now ‘cause we’ve had such a splendid afternoon. We’ve managed to finally leave Adana after being there for close to a week. We wanted to visit St Peter’s church (Supposedly the oldest church in the [...]

08.11-01-06 Tarsus, Syria & Amman, Jordan
When I sticked my head out of the tent this morning Mehmet (bless his soul) had already set out a table set with breakfast and tea (standard drink in Turkey being drunk always and everywhere in here) Right next to the table was a police/traffic vehichle. As a whole it [...]

I’ll be short on this one. Yesterday, we woke up right next to the Dead Sea where we camped. Took a dip in it and afterwards visited the spot at the Jordan-river where Jesus also took a dip a while back, or more correctly, where he was baptised. We then followed the road along the [...]

The drive on the “Desert Highway” from Petra to Aqaba where we caught the ferry to Egypt was awesome and a pleasure to drive. Going through passport-control and getting tickets for us and the bikes, basically going through the process of leaving Jordan, was stressful and frustrating. The guys there were most incompetent to put [...]

Originally we didn’t really plan to spent much time in Nuweiba. We changed our minds quickly though, after we arrived at Yasser’s place . It was simply too special a place not to stay for a few days. As a whole, Jordan was tiring and we convinced ourselves that we deserved the break. The last [...]