Although I travelled a
lot in my life (im quite sure I can honestly say so at my age), I was never a
biker. I actually learned how to go by bicycle quite late in my life. I
remember when I was a kid, on Sunday afternoons when my father was watching “Le
tour de france” and I was thinking to myself “is he ashamed of me?”,anyway that
was not the thing….Probably the first idea of this trip I got, was when I was
living in Tajikistan (2009 that’s why the name of the blog if you may ask),
there I get to know that some people was travelling middle east by bike… weird moderfaka
crazy people…
A couple of years
later (2011) I was actually here in Burgas with my best friend Gerard; we were
in this nice chaotic hostel parting with a Mexican metal band (don’t ask), and there
(here), I meet also this couple form Netherlands. The guy looked like a total hipster/nerd, when
the actual hipsters were not invented yet, with his tiny baseball hat like a rainbow
and probably a fixy bike at home; not fit at all. And the girl, too pretty for
him, told me in a private conversation that she don’t even like bikes, she
hated the trip and the roads. She said the roads were awful, and they were
still in Europe! Being fair that was long time ago and I have no idea when
Eurovelos were invented, even though that was nothing compared with Tajikistan.
And I certainly knew quite a lot of Tadjik roads.
I was quite sure she was
going to dump him and the trip itself.
I gave him advice
about the Tajik roads and the social events in Dushanbe, what else could I do?
I told him not to go from Samarkand direction east to cross the border. I told
him that the road was quite bad and was going up and down the mountain. I told
him to go south from Samarkand, down to the Afghan border and then cross the
border to Tadjikstan, then they would have cement and flat roads most of the
time. Later I gave him some advice about Pamir highway…basically not to do it.
I consider the Pamir highway as a challenge to do it as a one, and not parts as
such a long trip. And that’s also what I told to Tina too.
Anyway, they were here
as I do now waiting for the ferry to cross to Georgia. Thanks guys!
That’s how this trip
came to my mind initially, however I been checking recently other peoples blogs
that you may want to read.
Basically the most
interesting and complete ones are:
And others Montse or
myself checked:
I honestly
didn’t read all of them. But the info is there, and most of time if you write
to the bloggers (always nice people), they give you feedback.
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