Route Change

6/29/2015

This Is Just a brief update to tell you about why have decided to change our route through Europe. If you see our original route plan, we intended to cross the alps in Austria before heading south through Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and cycling through Bulgaria towards Turkey. Instead after Germany we crossed into Czech Republic, Slovakia, before cycling across Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

We decided to change this in Germany, since in Western Europe we were finding everything very expensive, and when you have to live on just ten pounds per day, this is made very difficult when a campsite can cost 15 pounds! We also wanted to head into Eastern Europe for more of an adventure since this was an area we were both unfamiliar with. Sure we had visited Prague and Buda Pest before but we wanted to see the country. We wanted to experience the countryside and the road less traveled and we have not once regretted going inland and away from the coast.

Change of plan and route is always going to happen and one of the advantages of traveling by bicycle is the ability to be flexible. If we want to go a different direction we can, if someone recommends a local attraction we would be able to go if we wanted. Or not! This is the beauty of traveling by bike and we just wanted to convey our new route plan to everybody who reads this.

I can tell you that I am writing this update from Romania, which is one of the most mis-understood countries in which we have traveled and this really is the jewel of Eastern Europe. The people are so friendly, the scenery is beautiful, the culture is untouched so far and the wildlife is simply everywhere. Did you know Prince Charles has a holiday home here!! The mountainous Carpathian mountain range is beautiful and the land is still often farmed with scythe and rake meaning the wildlife is not killed like in intensively farmed methods we use in the west. We even saw a baby bear cub in the wild, although we did not get too close since its mother was most likely hiding nearby!

We hope you enjoy reading our updates and we will continue to post more regularly to give you a wider insight into life on a bicycle :)

Thanks

Tim & Fin