The breakfast in the hotel awaited us with a surprise. While we were eating, the owner came into the room and presented a ceramic bobble-head cat to us. It was accompanied with a translation shown on his phone: "Gift of the hotel". Delighted we thanked him. The only problem was that the cat was enormous - fitting it in our luggage was challenging. As we set off, we gave him a sticker which he promptly put on the front door of the hotel! After days of…
After reaching Cappadocia yesterday, the next big goal on our trip was the ferry in Baku. There was one thing we should sort out before taking the ferry: A valve clearance check for Fabis' bike. We had planned on doing one before starting our trip but did not manage to do so due to a lack of time. On the Internet Chris had found the address of a motorcycle workshop in Tbilisi called "Bikeland". Conveniently, our route led through Georgia and Tbilisi so we could incorperate…
As we had a pretty long day yesterday, todays trip was relatively short with just around 220km. In the morning, Chris mounted the actioncam to his helmet and at the same time, realized that he had forgotten the remote control at home! As a consequence, we will probably use the camera a lot less. But most of the time the wifi is not good enough to upload any video so it does not matter that much. As can be seen from the route on top of…
With the arrival at Fethiye, our detour had reached its end. The plan was now to get back on track and to ride to the region of Cappadocia. By going there we would leave the seaside regions of Turkey and climb into the more highly situated center of the country. This was a welcome change as the past days were uncomfortably hot. Going up often includes some nice curves - this was also true in this case. The first leg of the day took us from…