You’d think after our Russian scandal, we’d have a bit of luck on our side. Think again. Not only was there a fire on our flight to Kathmandu, we ran into yet another visa problem. You really couldn’t make this stuff up…
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...
Week Twelve: A Wedding Break
Week Eleven: Bribery, Impulsiveness & Sweden
Week Ten: Man v Snow
Week Nine: Denmark, You Blew Us Away
Week Eight: The Even-Slower-Than-Expected Race
Week Seven: Jacob and the Black Forest
Week Six: For Franc's Sake, You Have to Pay For Showers?!
Week Five: Family Friends, Flatmates & French Kindness
Week Four: Sunshine Brain
Minus the bloodthirsty mosquitoes, we started the week the best way possible: with two days' rest on a hot beach, supping beer and red wine. Embarrassingly, while in this sunny daze, we got totally and utterly lost on the way to the supermarket. A trip that should have taken one hour, ended up taking close to three…
How We Made £1,181.94 Through Cashback and Bonuses
Never in my life did I think I’d become one of these money savvy coupon queens. Dan’s always been good with money, but quite honestly, I’ve been dreadful. Credit cards can be devilish if you let them be. Once we started saving for the trip, however, that all changed very quickly .
So how did we make £1,181.94?...
Week Three: Too Much, Too Soon?
What a week. We cycled everyday. That’s seven days of riding totalling 471 KM. Granted one day was only 20 KM, but it was still a lot of saddle time. After such a wet second week, we decided to change our route and head to the sunny French coast, making a deal with ourselves that we could have two days off once we hit the beach. In hindsight, yes it was too much, too soon.
By ride five, we were tired and grouchy with each other…
