What ought to have been a relatively easy day turned into a 6 hour battle witha strong head wind (when are we ever going to get a tail wind??), we ended upcrawling along, eventually resorting to cycling directly behind each other(drafting) to keep out of the wind, each taking a 5km turn. The wide tarmachard […]

Where were we last time I wrote, Ah yes we had just arrived in the Lakesidetown of Van having taken a 5 hour ferry ride across Van Golu (Van Lake). OurIranian visas had lapsed by this point so we had to take a detour up to theuniversity town of Erzerum. It is famous for […]