WE DID SOME CYCLING. The van plan finally came together…
Weeks Sixty-Four to Sixty-Five: Plan B
Weeks Eighteen & Nineteen: Our Russian Visa Expired
Visas are a tricky little thing that every traveller has to deal with at some point. The trick to tackling them is organisation. That’s why we applied for our Russia visa back in March, before we actually left the UK in April – four months before we even expected to enter Russia. But all that forethought and planning was quashed by an incompetent Visa Agent, leaving us with an expired visa and a trip to Russian Federal Court…
Week Seventeen: Bye, Bye, Bikes
This week, we arrived in Saint Petersburg after white-knuckle riding the last bit of the E20, which involved four lanes of traffic and dramatic arm signals. Now I was going to jump straight into the goings on in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, but I just wanted to point out the amount of steps we’ve walked this week…
Week Sixteen: End of Chapter One
Week Fifteen: Oh Heck! We Forgot To Pay
After nine nights on the Estonian islands, we truly fell into island life. We cycled no more than 50km a day, indulged in hour-long chats with locals and fellow travellers, and didn’t consider it a successful night’s camp if we weren’t covered in sand. We were so relaxed, we even forgot to pay for a campsite before we left...
Week Fourteen: Muhu, Saaremaa & Hiiumaa
Week Thirteen: Dan's Rim Exploded
Towards the end of each week, we rack our brains, trying to remember stuff that's happened (weeks and days blur together), which I then write about on the blog. This week was no different, except that I turned to Dan and said, ‘we’ve had a pretty uneventful week, this week’. Never will I ever say those words out loud again, as on Sunday, Dan’s wheel rim literally exploded...