A Travel Story by Belinda and Patrick Peck
Pat in front of 12th Century Transylvanian Castle called Corinesti Castle in Hunedoara.
Sovata salt lake on an August Weekend.
Belinda and John Cameron with the bikes in the lobby of the Hotel in Albania for 7 Euros per night!!
Bunkers on the beach in Albania, they were everywhere!!
Satu Mare, Romania motorcycle gathering 500 motorcyclists watching stunt show.
HU members gathering: Bin and Pat with Super tenere, Jo and rEkiny from Poland with Tenere and Oliver from Romania with Aprilia 1000.
We met and travelled with a journalist Mike Carter from London writing stories once a week for the Observer Guardian newspaper and this is what he wrote, thought you might like it!!
"Travels through a midlife crisis
Mike Carter's motorcycle odyssey gets tangled up in red tape at the Ukrainian border, and he is forced to face up to his anti-social tendencies
Sunday August 20, 2006
The Observer
"Buna Ziua" from Romania!
Since we last wrote we have travelled through many Eastern European countries and met some wonderful new friends. The world is full of great people!
After a tearful departure from Jo and rEkiny we drove off with Mike Carter, a London journalist writing weekly reports for the Guardian-Observer newspaper. He is writing about coping with a mid life crisis and has been given a brand new BMW motorbike and all the latest gear and told to go travelling for 6 months and write about what happens to him and how he copes!! Lucky bloke hey!
Pat and Mike Carter on his R1200GS at Auschwitz's infamous TUNNEL OF DEATH
Our New Greece number till 13 November 2006 is +30 697 416 3848.
We are now in Rhodes Island, Greece working our way towards Crete and then Athens to find a place to store the bike for 16 months.
Our Turkey number is no longer working. The Government have bought in a new law that all mobile phones have to be registered in Turkey and to do that you have to have the receipt of purchase, which of course, we havent kept in our back pocket for the last 4 years since we bought the phone!! So you need to send sms only to our Aussie number +61 419 309 309 till we get to Greece.
Grant Davis, Alanna Skillington, Susan Markwell, Pat, Liz Bashford, Belinda and John Skillington having 'Sex on the Beach' in Turkey.
Pat, John and Allana (Brisbane HU members we travelled with for awhile) near Sarcophagus tomb in Turkey.
Pat and 'Miss Adventure 2' at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey. This is
the site where during WW1 thousands of Australian and New
Zealand young soldiers were killed.
Belinda, Susan Markwell and Grant Davis (friends from Cairns we
accidentally bumped into and travelled with for awhile) in mudbath
in Turkey.
We are now in Crete Island, Greece and have found a great dry, safe, secure garage to park our bike for FREE!! We were riding around Iraklio (the capital of Crete) looking for a hotel with a garage like we had in Seville, Spain last time we left the bike for a year. No hotels here have garages, we did a big internet plea for help, then decided to go for a ride. At a stop light we met a guy on a Varadero (big bike like ours!) and we got talking at the next few stop lights, as you do, and he asked if we would like to go to see a Museum.
Clever Mikes articles crack us up!!
Sunday October 1, 2006 The Observer
Lots of people ask us about the bike and what we have done to modify her, so we thought we would put finger to keyboard! This will probably be boring for non-bikers!
Amazing fortified walls and moat in Rhodes, Island, Greece, complete with cannon balls!
Spiros Amitzoglou (Horizons member for Crete) with Miss AdventureII packed away for 16 months!
The boat we chartered in Turkey for A$139 each for 3 nights, 2 days, all inclusive!!!!
Kas sunken city in Turkey, amazing clear water!
Our friend Orestis The Greek God! (Horizons member in Athens)
Patrick on Frederics Paris Dakar Replica Super Tenere.
Beautiful Beach in South Coast of Turkey near Kas.
Grant Davis and Susan Markwell with magic lips on our boat in Turkey!!
Well long time, no hear folks!! We have had our heads down and bums up working for the last year, enough of that boring stuff, its time for our next installment of adventure!!
For those that are not aware, we have hit the road again.
In November we spent 3 glorious weeks in New Zealand with 21 year old daughter Kate. We hired a 3 berth motorhome and slowly toured the South Island. We had fantastic weather and cooked up some great meals overlooking a river or a beach- free camping. (photos coming)
