Ilse and Nils in Hamburg
Monday to Wednesday, August 11-13, 2014 The main reason for stopping in Hamburg was to catching up with Ilse and Nils, and, to give Stephen an extra ‘tick’ in the ‘200 Best Cities Book – Lonely Planet’. We had the…
Caroline Diericx
Arrival in Eeklo / Aankomst in Eeklo!!!!!
Save the Date – August 16 We set out on an Around the World Trip in May/June 2013. The Overland Adventure started for real on September 1, 2013, in Sydney, and will finish in Eeklo on August 16, 2014. In…
Leg 4: East and Central Asia
April – July, 2014 On April 17 we joined Kuipwagen (Marijke and Coen) and Ivor (Kim and Vaughan) in the Northern Laos border town of Boten, to cross into China as a convoy. Twenty nine days later we reached Erenhot,…
Caspian Sea
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 After the whole police episode was over, we drove south from Astrakhan towards the Volga Delta. Our original plan was to wing it and find someone with a boat. The receptionist at our hotel had given…
Tashkent
Thursday, July 3, 2014 Despite setting our alarm at 7am we still only got away around 9:30am for the 320km drive to Tashkent. Not that far, but we didn’t know what road conditions to expect, and, we also wanted to…
Hello Uzbekistan and to Farg’ona
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 This day we crossed out of Kyrgyzstan and into Uzbekistan. The border crossing took a couple of hours, but everything was very correct and proper. Just a lot of paperwork to be completed. Click the links…
Osh (Ош)
Sunday, June 29, 2014 We arrived in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, around 2:30pm. The previous night we had no Internet and did not have any hotels in mind. So our plan was to head to a coffee shop, get some…
Caroline’s 50th Birthday
I figured this event merited its own entry 🙂 Never in my 50 years had I envisioned being in Kyrgyzstan on this day! Let alone in ‘Hotel Turist’ in Kara-Köl, halfway between Bishkek and Osh, on the Eve of my…
To Osh (Ош)
Saturday, June 28, 2014 We said goodbye to Nomad Hostel and Bishkek and started our drive towards Osh. Getting out of the city took some time, as it usually does, even here there was urban sprawl. Shortly after clearing most…
Around Lake Issyk Kul (Ысык-Көл)
Monday, June 23, 2014 We left Bishkek and headed east towards Issuk-Köl, the lake in the north-east of Kygryzstan. The lake is huge and we planned 4 days to drive around it, putting us back in Bishkek on Friday (June…
Almaty (Алматы)
Thursday, June 19, 2014 We loved Almaty. Unfortunately we would not be staying more than 2 nights here. On arrival in the city we looked for a coffee shop, with wifi, to enjoy a latte and to look for a place…
To Almaty (Алматы)
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 We decided to go with the ‘gun it to Almaty’ option which meant covering 1130km in 2 days. That way we’d arrive in Almaty on Thursday evening, have the Friday to sort the car and paper…
Mörön re-visited (Мөрөн)
Thursday, May 29, 2014 After last night’s commotion we woke up to find it was 8:20am! Quiet campsites do promote a good night’s sleep! After breakfast and breaking up camp we started towards Mörön again. On the way we made…
Ulaanbaatar (Улаанбаатар)
Friday, May 16, 2014 There wasn’t much to Sainshand, so after breakfast we didn’t hang around and headed north to Ulaanbaatar. The road was good and fast for most of the way and we arrived at the ‘Oasis Cafe and Guesthouse’ just…
Èrliánhàotè (二连浩特)
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 We have internet – obviously 😉 The drive to the Chinese border town of Erenhot was fast and smooth: we were on the road by 8am and arrived around 1pm, just in time for lunch. We…