Astrid – Page 4 – Irgendwo ist immer Sommer

Life on the Hard Shoulder

We master the border crossing from Georgia to Turkey with flying colors. We skillfully shimmy past the line of cars[…]

So many kilometers and so much time we have never spent with our touring bikes in any mountain area in[…]

We assume the year 1949. This is the year when ‘Pipi Langstrumpf’, authored by Astrid Lindgren, was published in German.[…]

… in Armenian. Thank you for letting us travel to the beautiful country of Armenia. ‘Schnorrhakalutsjun’ (Thank you) is the[…]

A strenuous stage leads us from our campsite in Getap towards Ararat. We ride on the expressway, highway or freeway.[…]

We are in Armenia. Somehow we had quite the scare the night before, for whatever reason. There are three border[…]

The decision not to cycle into the Great Caucasus we make after Frank welcomed us in the morning at the[…]

The statistics report of our trip from 26 April to 26 September 2022 for our lovely ‘Dates, Figures & Facts’[…]

Here is our subjective list of the best campsites. What makes a campsite a great one? As travel cyclists with[…]

… and many other miraculous phenomena we have experienced in the five months through nine countries and not captured them[…]