cyclingtogether

cyclingtogether, 7 days ago to cycling

Honestly, our two-day stopover in Patmos was a lucky coincidence that came about through a name mix-up 😂 patmos, piraeus... 🧏‍♀️ I don't know... thanks to my legastenic brain and the stressy situation at the ferry ticket office 🤷‍♀️
The ferry crossing was already amazing 🤩, but when we arrived in Patmos and were warmly welcomed at the vegan restaurant 'Pernera' with our loaded bicycles, we were very happy about this confusion 🥰 !
Sidenote: The neighboring shop initially wanted to send us away and said we should park our bikes in the parking lot at the harbor... yea of course... not!
In the beautiful 'Pernera', we enjoyed a vegan and gluten-free menu, prepared with love from organic and local ingredients 🫠. And besides the delicious food, our souls were nourished by the inspiring and motivating conversations we had with the people there 🫶

The search for a campground in the picturesque small bays was a bit challenging. Either the beach was too narrow for a tent or private. Fortunately, it was still off-season, and we were able to set up our inner tent in the bay 'Kampos Beach' next to the beach bar, as the beach taverns and sunbed rentals were not yet active.

#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #travelphotography #naturephotography #greece #patmos #pernera #vegan #glutenfree

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cyclingtogether, 9 days ago to greece

After we stopped at the Islands Leros and Lipsi we reached our destination, the island Patmos. The ferryride in total was 5h. We enjoyed it a lot, especially because we could see all these incredibly nice islands (at least the harbour vilages).
#traveling #greece #islands #patmos

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cyclingtogether, 9 days ago to greece

Next stop was Kos, where we didn't take any pictures. However, Kalymnos, the third island, was very picturesque...
#traveling #greece #island #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 11 days ago to greece

The first stop our ferry did, was on the island named Simi. So beautyful this harbour village!
💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍💙
Fiona was totally fascinated 🤩

#traveling #greece #greeceisland #simi #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 12 days ago to greece

We left the island of Rhodes, took the ferry and sailed (speed catamaran 😉) for quite a while along the Turkish coast. How beautiful this deep blue sea! 💙

#traveling #islandhopping #greece #deepbluesea

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cyclingtogether, 13 days ago to cycling

The night in Rodini Park in Rhodes was quiet, nobody bothered us anymore after the incident with the teenagers. But we didn't sleep very well. We were still on alert and wore all our clothes to be able to react quickly in case something happens. Early in the morning, we packed everything up, left the mystical park, and cycled to the lively, sunlit harbor.
#cycling #greece #rhodes

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cyclingtogether, 14 days ago to cycling

Our campsite in the middle of Rhodes...
When we found this place in 'Rodini Park', there was not a single person visiting this deep green park. So we thought we could go to bed early and spend a quiet night. However, we did not expect a group of teenagers who had come to play 'hide and seek'. As soon as they spotted us, they started throwing stones in our direction. So we got out of the tent to show them who we are and to talk to them. Finally, they understood that we are travelers who just want to spend a peaceful night here. After exchanging some famous football players and some curse words in different languages, they finally ran away.

#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #wildcamping #travelphotography #naturephotography #greece #rhodes

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cyclingtogether, 17 days ago to random

Goodbye Turkey 🇹🇷 👋

The morning when we left Fethiye the sky was clear blue, the weather was nice and sunny. The dusty, foggy days where gone, and it was like nothing had happened...
At the ferry port we met 4 cyclicts from france. We all had the same direction: the Greek island Rhodos 🇬🇷

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cyclingtogether, 17 days ago to cycling

After a nice but very long cycling day with lots of altimeter in addition, we reached Fethiye. Our plan was to book ferry tickets for early next morning and search a campspot near the port. The officer at the port told us the ferry was canceled because of bad weather. Oh, with this situation we didn't calculated. And we couldn't see bad weather on our wetherforcast website... The next possible ferry was sceduled for 3 days later.
We felt a bit disapointed, because we passed some nice places without stopping, but ok...
The two days we had to wait for the ferry we stayed in a hostel room. The two days the air was full of the sahara dust, it was super foggy and had zero visibility. But ok... we took these day to make laundry by hand and to relax a lot...
#cycling #bikepacking #traveling #travellife #restdays #break #turkey #fethiye #saharadust

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cyclingtogether, 18 days ago to cycling

We came to Kas exactly when they closed all streets because of the famous roadcycling race through Turkey. Lucky us 😅 so we came to the ancient amphytheater when a group of teenager held a huge flag of Turkey for the media helicopter. Actually the theater is so nice. Its in a very good shape and look that view! While searching for a campspot we cycled on and on and on. everywhere it was too steep or too densely populated or directly next to the busy road... finally we found a nice, hiden, flat spot surrounded by nature.

#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #adventure #traveling #travelphotography #naturephotography #turkey #kas

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cyclingtogether, 18 days ago to cycling

We left Çıralı with its beautiful beach and the ancient site of 'Olympos' behind us and enjoyed a great day of cycling off the main road. Several kilometers before reaching the coastal town of Finike, we battled against the very strong headwind. It was no longer fun to ride, so we decided to look for a campsite. The weather forecast indicated that a terrible rain and thunderstorm will approach the next morning. Therefore, we searched for a sheltered campsite to avoid getting soaked... Yes, we found a roof under which we could set up the tent. The night was peaceful, the wind even stopped. And in the morning when we woke up, we thought the weather forecast had been overly dramatic... But suddenly it started to rain and then the storm began... coming directly from the sea, straight towards our small tent! OMG! The roof was no longer helping, the rain was coming horizontally. We feared that the storm would damage the tent, so we took it down while the rain soaked us...

After about two hours enduring the storm, the wind suddenly shifted and 10 minutes later the dark rain clouds were swept away. The sky was once again bright blue, the sun was shining as if nothing had happened. Only the wind continued to blow like crazy. We took our time, dried the tent, sleeping mat and the wet stuff on the deserted playground...

#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #pedalandexplore #cyclingaroundtheworld #adventuretravel #exploringbybicycle #globetrottingonwheels #travelphotography #naturephotography

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cyclingtogether, 20 days ago to Travel

Olympus or Olympos (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυμπος, Ólympos)

We don't know how many places with the name 'Olympos' exists, but there are some... Actually, its very interesting but also too confusing the history and what is known or who tells which mythos... so, please check it out if you are interested 🤓

btw: can you spot Marc? 🫣

#travel #traveling #turkey #greekmythology #history #unescoworldheritage #lycianway #travelphotography #photography

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cyclingtogether, 22 days ago to Turkey

The coastal region after Antalya was not only full of operating hotels and resorts, but also many empty and completely rundown facilities. The same situation existed with plantations and greenhouses, on one side there were many new, modern ones, and on the other side dilapidated nostalgic glass greenhouses... - and a stranded submarine?! - 😂

#turkey #travel #traveling #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #travelphotography #greenhouse #abandonedbuilding

marc cycling towards the magically looking abandoned 'eco' resort
old, nostalgic greenhous totally surrounded by green nature
white plastic tunnels for plantations as far as you can see
stranded submarine

cyclingtogether, 22 days ago to Turkey

On the road D400 we had to go through 4 tunnels. There was no possibility to go around 🤯
Who knows us a bit, cycling through a tunnel is the worst, we hate it!
Never before we've seen these buzzers 🖲️ to start the blinking lights around the 'attention, there are cyclists' sign. Actually, we dont know if this helps a lot, at daylight... But of course we pushed the buzzer! In the end of that day we found a campspot, not a magical, romantic nature surrounded spot, but ok...

#turkey #traveling #travellife #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #travelphotography #freecamping

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cyclingtogether, 22 days ago to Turkey

The bay of Antalya with the mountains in the background reminded us so much of Lake Thun in Switzerland, where we grew up... 🤩

We had heard a lot from other cycle travelers about the coastal route from Antalya to Fethiye. So, we decided to spend some days on this road in the hope of finding nice nature, calm roads, beautiful ancient sites, and secret places to pitch our tent...

At a coffee stop not far from Antalya's city center, we met Rob, a charming cycling enthusiast senior from the UK. We chatted together before leaving the Turkish tourist hotspot behind us 😎

#turkey #antaya #touristhotspot #sharinggoodmoments #cycling #bikepacking #travel

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cyclingtogether, 23 days ago to Turkey

While strolling through the old town we came across some sights like the clock tower, some more or less outstanding mosques and the great 'Hadrian's Gate'. What interested us the most was the little mosque of the broken minaret. Wikipedia tells: The Kesik Minare Cami (Broken Minaret Mosque) ... was originally built as a Roman temple in the 2nd century AD. In the 7th century, it was converted into a Byzantine church in honor of the Virgin Mary, but it was heavily damaged in the 7th century during the Arab invasions. In the 9th century it was repaired again. The minaret was added in the early 13th century when the Sultanate of Rum established their rule in Antalya and converted the church into a mosque...

#turkey #antalya #sightseeing #traveling #photography #travelphotography

Entrance of Kesik Minare Cami (Broken Minaret Mosque)
Prayer hall of Kesik Minare Cami (Broken Minaret Mosque)
Remaining piece of the Roman Temple (now Kesik Minare Cami)
View through a lively street to the Minaret of Kesik Minare Cami
top of a Minaret
Hadrian's Gate

cyclingtogether, 23 days ago to Turkey

Antalya... time to take a hot shower, time to chill, time to make laundry, time to chat with other travelers in the backyard of the hostel, time to stroll without bicycle through the old town and time to realize a little bit how fast we've traveled since we are in Turkey...

#turkey #antalya #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #pedalandexplore #cyclingaroundtheworld #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 25 days ago to Turkey

The wild weather calmed down. In the evening, we found a campspot in a small bay on the deserted beach, next to cucumber greenhouses. The cucumber gardener saw us and immediately brought us a handful of freshly picked cucumbers 🥒 So friendly! (It was the last day of Eid al-Fitr, the celebration after ramadan). He confirmed that we can spend the night here without any worries. We had a very good night there. It was quiet, we felt completely safe and were able to sleep deeply 😴

After another day of cycling 🚵‍♀️ 🚵‍♂️ over the hills with amazing views over the coastline 🏞️ and through valleys and bays full of greenhouses, we had to settle for a less idyllic place to sleep. It was noisy, from the busy road nearby, and because of several guys, who had to speed through the park with their motorized vehicles 🛵 🚖 until the early morning hours... At least at one tent side the view to the sea was nice 😎

One day later we where lucky again!
In Anamur we pitched our tent at the end of the long city beach 🏖️ We stood there for totally 3 nights, went for a shower to the open beach-showers 🚿 and relaxed all day long in and around our tent ⛺️

#turkey #traveling #cycling #travellife #cyclinglife #bikepacking #biketouring #freecamping #wildcamping #camping

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cyclingtogether, 25 days ago to cycling

From the perfect campspot near the abandoned quarry we could cycle over a moutain, where the road was all for us, the highway/mainroad led through a tunnel underneath us... suddenly dark clouds cought us and poured us with heavy rain... 💦
#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #pedalandexplore #turkey #rainyday #nature #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 26 days ago to Turkey

What a view, and what an amazing campspot 😍 So lucky we found this place around 25km after the city Silifke, beside an abandoned quarry... There we slept sooo good 😴
We had no reason to hurry, so we enjoyed the whole Morning only with the sound of nature 🥰
Marc took the opportunity to bake glutenfree flatbread for a nice brunch 😋
#turkey #freecamping #glutenfree #glutenfreebaking #cycling #bikepacking #travellifestyle #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 26 days ago to Turkey

The next morning at Mersin heavy rain surprised us. The sky over the sea was super dark black. The first bad weather wave we sat out in the tent, then, around midday, we decided to start cycling... Only some km later we where lucky to wait underneath a roof of a supermarket until the next cloudburst was over. To Erdemli, our destination for this day, we cycled mostly on the promenade directly along the coast or on the big road D400, totally easy 😎
At Erdemly we cooked dinner in the big and very clean city parc. We knew about the rainy night and pitched our tent, cheeky as we got, in front of a park office... 😇🏕️
#turkey #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #cyclinglife #adventure #traveling #pedalandexplore #cyclingaroundtheworld #adventuretravel #exploringbybicycle #globetrottingonwheels #travelphotography

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cyclingtogether, 26 days ago to cycling

In Mersin we needed a chill-day. In the parc at the beach we relaxed without being disturbed from anybody. Right when we wanted to start pedaling some km in the afternoon, a man on a bicycle talked to us. A little later his friend, who knew very well german, joined us. We chatted together, met more of their cycling community and got invited to drink çay and eat fresh fish. They showed us an abandoned campground where we spent a calm, relaxing night. ☺️😴
#cycling #bikepacking #biketouring #biketravel #cyclinglife #adventure #globetrottingonwheels #traveling #pedalandexplore #cyclingaroundtheworld #adventuretravel #exploringbybicycle #turkey

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cyclingtogether, 28 days ago to Turkey

In Hakkari, we camped in the middle of the city park next to the big mosque, where they celebrated something related to Ramadan until late at night. We don't like to go to bed or close the tent zipper if there is still a lot going on outside. That's why we sat in the little picnic hut and waited. We could observe the people. Some couples and groups of 2-3 men walked their rounds along the park fence, some families had a picnic on the meadow, the smaller kids played on the slide and swing, others chased each other with water bottles (it was quite cold up there, surrounded by snowy mountain peaks), and we saw a group of teenagers chase, hit, and kick one of the boys quite rough. This was a really shocking moment. We talked a lot about this happening, trying to understand or at least find a reason to accept how 'kids' can be so aggressive and bad to each other. Some time later, they shook hands and went to the festivities in the mosque...

Our night was not the best, so it was not too difficult to get up super early the next morning. Our bus left at 7:00. The bicycles fit into the quite small bus, but then it was a Tetris game to put all the luggage of the other passengers on top. We crossed our fingers, hoping nothing got damaged on our bikes!

The bus ride was crazy. We first rode down into the narrow valley and then up over the next mountain peak covered in snow. The street was narrow and steep with thousands of switchbacks. Several military checkpoints with armed men controlled the passport of each passenger.
We felt really grateful to be sitting on the bus rather than pedaling on the street!

#turkey #cycling #bikepacking #traveling

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cyclingtogether, 28 days ago to Turkey

From the perfect emergency bivouac spot in the stone hut, the road led us down many meters in altitude. At one point, the canyon with the 'Nehil' river crossed paths with another canyon and its river 'Great Zab' (Kurdish: Zêy Badînan), an ~400-kilometer long river flowing through Turkey and Iraq.
At this crossing point we reached a military checkpoint with heavy armed men asking us the totally unexpected question: 'why are you here ?!' We thought for ourself: to move on, get out of this surveillanced region as fast as possible, but replied with the classic answer: 'we are cycling the world!' 🚴‍♀️🚴🌍
They let us through and we cycled on, glad the valley widened a bit, happy when we found a playground with beautiful blooming trees. There, we took a long midday break and enjoyed being the only 'guests' on the slide 😅
In the afternoon, we took the opportunity to hitchhike a small bus (we paid for the ride) to the mountain town Hakkari, where we bought bus tickets to Cizre for early the next morning.

#turkey #kurdistan #travel #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring

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cyclingtogether, 29 days ago to legal

Thanks to Myriam, to @m4lvin and to @BIKE_PEDRO for the donations 🤩 we love that you support our journey 🫶

#support #travellovers #cyclinglife #cycling #bikepacking #biketouring

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