This will be a long post given that I have not written anything since my (re-)departure on April 13. So here’s the TL;DR for impatient readers. Continue reading Cycling the Caucasus: Erzurum, Tbilisi, Baku
Tag: Erzurum
Bike the World: Episode II
Most of you probably won’t expect to read this: I’m back on the road! Almost five months ago, I arrived in the Eastern Turkish city of Erzurum by bicycle. After 5,400 kilometres and 100 days of cycling since my departure from Brussels, I was only a few days away from the Iranian border. The landscape was stark and dry, the nights were icy, and I felt lonely. Continue reading Bike the World: Episode II
Solitude is certainly a fine thing
“…but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer and whom we can tell from time to time that it is a fine thing,” wrote French author Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac in 1665. And he was probably right. Continue reading Solitude is certainly a fine thing