Category: Blog
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Ukraine … again – The End
Well, the final entry now and it’s a bit boring. I had booked the Monday off work at the last minute due to Touratech Kassel getting my tank bag in, also the thought of all that way in 2 days wasn’t appealing.A 9am departure saw my following the GPS to the border. It was uneventful…
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Ukraine … again – Part 8
As I said, the rest of the time there, until Friday afternoon anyhow, was just sightseeing. I did have a smile at these pigeons, they’re normally flocking everywhere as people feed them breadcrumbs, however one day it was pouring down and they all sat in a square on some bricks under a tree. There are quite…
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Ukraine … again – Part 7
Wednesday, Thursday and half of Friday were spent locally in Truskavets. Although the town isn’t very big there was enough of it for me to explore. Onto this fancy water then. “Naftusia” as it is known is special water that’s come up through the rocks I believe. However it does go via a laboratory to make…
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Ukraine … again – Part 6
Final update for today was just people watching. Old men playing chess, old women just relaxing and a naughty little boy nicking the coins from the fountain! A bus home (Almost got on the wrong one to Kiev!) and I was home about 2 hours later. Some dinner and bed. Wed, Thu and Fri were…
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Ukraine … again – Part 5
I also found a very very old coffee shop where they had a museum below street level. To be honest I didn’t understand much but it was nice to walk around with my miners hat and head torch. I love the smell of roast coffee. They had allsorts for sale at the end, but this…
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Ukraine … again – Part 4
So, Tuesday morning came around and off I trundled to the bus station, bought my ticket and waited for the next bus.Can I read the ticket? Can I bollocks! The bus was not quite the National Express size, but not far off it. It had german writing on it and was obviously from a German…
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Ukraine … again – Part 3
Monday was a quiet day, just walking around really to get my bearings and relax. One thing I wanted to do was to visit the nearby (95km) city of Lviv (Pronounced L’viv in Ukrainian or L’vov in Russian) So, first off to the train station to see if trains go there. The answer is “No”…
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Ukraine … again – Part 2
I arrived in Truskavets via probably the equivalent of A and B roads. Some completely dirt roads, some gravel, and some pot holed. You always pass nice churches in the most run down of villages. 2 right next to each other in this case All the bus stops are always nicely decorated either with paint or…
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Ukraine … again – Part 1
Last year I went to the far side of Ukraine, Mariupol and Donetsk, where they’re currently blowing each other up with (apparently, yeah right) no intervention from Russia. Anyhow, enough politics, for now.I’d heard about this place called Truskavets. At the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the west of Ukraine lies this health type…
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Iceland – Day 12 – 15
Breakfast on Thursday morning and then off to the ferry. A shedload of motorbikes getting onto the ferry, some with battle damage and some with very bald rear tyres, I am glad I wasn’t on some of those coming back. Then onto the ferry and into my awesome (not) accommodation and then spent the evenings…
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Iceland – Day 11
So we packed up and I cooked some breakfast (We were getting quite good at this) and headed up the local garage/cafe for fuel and coffee. There we met some Icelandic Harley riders who were touring around. They told us about a road called F917 so we decided to do that loop. What a choice!…
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Iceland – Day 10
I hardly slept that night and was up at 4am and bored. So I cooked some breakfast and waited for Paul to emerge from his tent. He makes me laugh as until he’s had coffee in the morning I have never met anyone more dead to the world, secretly I was quite thankful as I…
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Iceland – Day 9
Seljalandsfoss was another waterfall we saw the following morning. It’s great as you can actually walk behind the waterfall. Sure, you get a little damp but it’s cool. A bit touristy though with half of Japan appearing to be there. Then onto the small seaside town of Vik and a walk down a stone…
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Iceland – Day 8
That Sunday we woke up and next to the camp site was a Visitor Centre which opened at 9am. We were through the door at 9h05 hoping for a coffee, however unfortunately the cafe didn’t open until later but the nice man let us in and made us coffee and fed us cake. Life was…
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Iceland – Day 7
Saturday was one of the days I was really looking forward to. A day of offroad riding down the F35. It was brilliant, the scenery through the highlands was awesome. We passed a cyclist who then stopped at the same little cafe that we did. A Dutch chap cycling around Iceland for a few weeks.…