After some difficulties finding the actual train station in Bogor in the middle of an endless number of stalls that had sprung up in the streets arou…

"The president rode it himself and he say's it's good!" "It has a 50 Km uphill which you can't do" "It's all Jungle" "The road is brand new all th…

Advice for the day: "The road is flat and tarmacced" Our plan was to ride the last 50 km along the coast, then to follow a small road up through the…

I didn't really know much about Java before going: I knew that its crowded; 140 million people on an area about the size of the UK. An…

After having left the never ending parties at Kuta, Daren and I headed west, towards Cekik, were a ferry would take us to Java in about 4 days time…

On the 16th of september we finally made our outbound flight. 12 hours to Hong Kong were we would have a 12 hour stop over and then approximate…

5 Month have past. Last i wrote from mendoza. Route 7 did eventually take us to the foot of the Andes mountains were we celebrated my birthday. I spo…

As the pampas became dryer our travelling on the dirttracs became more difficult. The Argentinians had now begun to warn us about 35 km of unavoidabl…

Most travellers take trains in order to get closer to stuff. I would have liked to, but according to Darens rulebook of how to cykle around the world…

My grandmothers house was in a world of it`s own, large with a an endless amount of rooms to play in. Some were scary, like the one my grandfather di…

Monte video is small but it's history is one of many wars and political conflicts; The aboriginal people faught the spanish, later the spanish faught…

This trip started as a day dream. Now it's real but the dream still has to remain. Every now and then reality comes down a little too hard; Roadkill,…

We´ve been on the road for over 6 month now, since Rio de Janeiro we´ve ridden over 2000 km with only 5 days of, from Torres we raced south -450 km…

Leaving Curitiba we were buisy but obviously it rained; Ahead lay had the descent into the Serra Do Mar, little germany and another mountainrange tha…

If anybody is around over here ive written down our best places. (Bar one in rio) All these places are very clean and with friendly local owners. I…

He couldn´t sing, the music was wrong, beer guts got in the way of kitchy rock poses and with faces like they worked at mcDonalds this poor old Bon …

Deamons and trenchfoot-worries or not we still had to cover about 400 km pr week. Generally we´ve been setting off about 10 am in a steady drizzle; …

As we left our love motel still half asleep, we realised the BR-101, the main road south,  is better than the strongest expresso! Constant …

Leaving central Rio by bike is easy. Some 20 km of biketracks along beach after beach through hightly guarded luxuy neighborghoods. As the beach gets…

Rio is magic in all ways! (After 36 hours of mostly waiting for flights and occasionaly boarding one anything would be though...) Surrounded and divi…

Afrika.... After 2 over two weeks on cape verde with family I am finally ready to move on. Gone is the longing for the sahel, for the savannah …

From Casamance we crossed a layed back border into Guinea-Bissau. Here the army is out of sight. Gone are the intimidating parades of "protection" an…

Only few can afford to be in the center of Bissau and the emptiness and silence of the ruined buldings is strange. The wide streets are full of potho…

Still to come....

The net caffes have been thinning out and i cant keep up with the blog writing! The final ride out of Mauritania was as exciting as the rest of the…

So we made it to Naukchott , Mauretanias capital. This is a dusty place. Only the main streets are tarmaced, the rest is sand and when you try to nav…

Im so tired i have no idea how i will manage the 270 km ride to Dakhar in 3 days.... But were under pressure for visas. Meanwhile weve finished west…

 Needing urgent spare parts we decided to leave the bikes at motel barabas 80 km before the mauritanian border and hitch up to dakhla. It's nice…

 We are again seperated from our bikes: Needing urgent spare parts we decided to leave the bikes at motel barabas 80 km before the mauritanian b…

We meet the real gatekeeper of the sahara in Tunisia on a previous trip, on a previous failed attept to ride the dessert. He turned out to be a cat i…

Plans, calculations of distances and food supplies have been made and changed and made again only to be rearranged by fate and coincidence at the las…

Finally reached the coast! Its been about 6 or 700 km of riding west. West is no good here as it means lots of headwinds from the coast. And also t…

But most passes are climbed eventually and this one was no exception. In the morning the mountains had sheed their scary coat and greeted us with fr…

As said; Inbetween the nothingness there's lush green palmeries. The contrast is stunning! For both the todra and the dades gorge we left our bags in…

Since Merzuga we've been working our way along the big vast spaces of the northern edge of the dessert. Its been a bit tough. My diary reads thi…

Small rivers were suddenly finding their way through the labyriths of fez' souks, ensuring that everything that the rain couldn't reach from above wa…

Leaving Fez is a relief. I will write about it later as my diary is in the hotel and im in a shabby net caf at the edge of the sahara. Fez is some …

All has changed somewhat: Chefchauen is a tourist bubble. All the streets are paintet light blue, there are nice restaurents on the main square and y…

Back in the other world again then...The one of sweaty long rides and roadside life. After Albu feira we rode to Gibraltar and then took a boat to Ce…

mmm. Very relaxing. Were staying, with Darens family, in an appartment by the beach, but even closer to the pool. Seaviews, drinks and sunshine. All …

16 minutes to write the most important stuff. Very expensive internet caffee:( We´ve done Lisbon but only stayed 2 nights as that too, was expensiv…

Finally, after 20 days on the bikes were having a rest in Porto. The bikes are locked away in a backyard as our landlady says that in porto, the poli…

After the spanish mountains came a looooong strech of flat land. Unfortunately with headwinds so strong that i had to ridein first gear and nearly fe…

On the 1 / 08 / 08 we finally managed to leave tredworth road. Inspite of having forgotten phonechargers, not having said goodbye…