UNESCO

Amiens, Paris and Versailles

Monday, September 29, 2014 After lunch we said goodbye to Marijke and Coen and drove from Wageningen to Tourcoing; the latter picked solely as stopover en route to Versailles to avoid a long day’s driving. There is not much to…

Brussel

Thursday, August 21, 2014 We said goodbye to Eeklo for now and took a train to Brussel. We’d never visited Brussel together before so we decided that after seeing lots of new and exotic places a visit to Belgium’s capital…

Arrived in Eeklo

Saturday, August 16, 2014 And then it had arrived, kind of faster than we’d expected, and bitter-sweet: the last driving day of our ‘Overland Adventure’. Sure, we’d still planned to go places before going home to San Francisco, but, as…

Warsaw

Monday, August 4, 2014 Hello Poland! It was a long drive, but still managed to make it to Warsaw in time to get into the executive lounge and gobble up a free meal and down a few drinks before closing…

Riga

Thursday, July 31, 2014 Our GPS got a little confused and could not work out the way to Riga. But we didn’t panic! Pulled out the backup paper map and headed on gut feeling and a south westerly bearing. It…

Tallinn

Monday, July 28, 2014 As we drove off the ferry, we appeared to be singled out for a little customs check. It was almost like they knew we were coming, with everyone else being waved through. Although the customs check…

Helsinki

Friday, July 25, 2014 It is good to be in Finland. Probably the easiest border crossing we had on this trip. While sitting in our car, with the engine running, we handed over our passports to the immigration officer. Thirty…

Khiva

Wednesday, July 9, 2014 The drive from Bukhara to Khiva was 430 kms through the Kyzylkum Desert, a journey that ‘the one that went before us’ took 10 hours to complete. So we woke up early, had a massive breakfast…

Bukhara

Monday, July 7, 2014 Pleasant enough drive to Bukhara, except the cop who leapt out of the bushes to pull us over. Apparently we were speeding, although we had no idea that we were. The chat was friendly enough, and…

Samarkand

Saturday, July 5, 2014 The drive to Samarkand was along good roads and we made excellent time. We didn’t even get stopped by the Police. Although we had a little trouble getting to our hotel, as someone had constructed a…

Tashkent

Thursday, July 3, 2014 Despite setting our alarm at 7am we still only got away around 9:30am for the 320km drive to Tashkent. Not that far, but we didn’t know what road conditions to expect, and, we also wanted to…

Osh (Ош)

Sunday, June 29, 2014 We arrived in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second city, around 2:30pm. The previous night we had no Internet and did not have any hotels in mind. So our plan was to head to a coffee shop, get some…

Tiger Leaping Gorge (虎跳峡)

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 An easy drive through the mountains. Started off back-tracking down the beautiful toll road before heading up a new valley to Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze River. It is also essential part of the UNESCO…