As of today, plan for the trip has been pretty much done. Trial packing is behind, all gears have been selected and final bike maintenance is early next week. First part is short visit to Alps and especially unpaved roads over there with some friends, like this. After this I …
As a series of post and things to clear out, collection of visa requirements for possible countries to visit from citizen of Finland point of view. Morocco No visa required for tourist trips. Finland has official representation in the country: http://www.finlande.ma. Mauritania Visa is required and can be acquired through …
My original plan for 2012 summer was to do a short two weeks trip to Crimea, which was my target for this year as well, but missed it because I could not get into Abkhazia. But as time goes by this evolved into a bigger trip and now target is …
Day started early again, quick packing and as I was totally full from yesterdays late dinner, no breakfast at the hotel. When checking out there started this man at the reception mumbling something and once I got paid, he started dragging me out to the bike and with the bike …
Day started as normal, not so early as I was not expecting long journey from Sozopol to Istanbul. Route I chose was excellent, this was small road that approached Turkey from Bulgarian side, lots of turns and it took me 650m high. Couple with bicycles and one motorcycle came towards …
As I was eating my breakfast in the morning in Suceava hotel, I was just thinking all my wet and smelly clothes and same time sky was looking like it is going to have same thunderstorms again I decided that I will head straight to south away from these rains …
So the plan is, that three teams which go a bit different route will meet in Kyrgyzstan sometime in July 2010 and head through Pamir Highway back to Finland. Here’s how it roughly looks: FIN2PAMIR Team 1 consists of four people, Team 2 is three people and Team 3 is …
As the July gets closer making decisions on which route should we take gets more attention. So far it looks that we are driving from Espoo to Warsaw and stay the first night somewhere in there. This would mean driving ~1050 kilometers on the first day! Next day as we …
Long waited decision was made today: this summer my motorbike BMW K 1200 LT (2006 model) will be heading from Espoo to the Southern Spain. We will be driving through Estonia – Poland – Germany – France – Spain -route and we have reserved 5 days to drive ~4400 kilometers into …
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