In the beginning, the aim was to ride from Belfast, RSA to Belfast, NI; it wasn’t until much later that the idea of “Belfasts of the World” was conceived. On 21st April 2019, I crossed the start line on my trip in eMakhazeni (aka Belfast) having recently discovered two other places called Belfast in SA and thoughtContinueContinue reading “01/48 – Tying Up Loose Ends – 26/27 April 2026”
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3/37 – Epilogue – Monday 06 Oct 2025
Today was a weird day; I didn’t know what to do with myself! My “lodger” had left the place immaculate – much cleaner than I had left it for him, which was a little embarrassing – so I had no immediate cleaning to do. I wandered around aimlessly, looking at this, checking on that, andContinueContinue reading “3/37 – Epilogue – Monday 06 Oct 2025 “
3/35: Ithaca, And The Palace of Odysseus – 26–30Sep
Fri 26 Sep 2025 The ride to Sami was only 30 kms, and Sami is not a big place, so I easily found the one and only campsite. The main reason I was here, on Kefalonia, was to take the ferry to Ithaca, supposedly the home of Odysseus whose trials, I had been contemplating asContinueContinue reading “3/35: Ithaca, And The Palace of Odysseus – 26–30Sep “
3/34: Greece – 22–26 Sep
Sun 21 Sep 2025 Being only 8 kms from the port, there wasn’t much for me to do today except wait. I met my new Russian friend again, and he very kindly presented me with a bar of Moscow chocolate; “From Russia with love,” he said grinning widely. At the port There was the usualContinueContinue reading “3/34: Greece – 22–26 Sep “
3/33 – Ancient Turkey – 18/19 Sep 2025
Thur 18 Sep 2025 The Home, and indeed most of the town, was still asleep as I left, discovering on the way that the town was much bigger than I had thought. With the improvement in the weather, not too hot and not too cold, and as my ride was relatively short, I was planningContinueContinue reading “3/33 – Ancient Turkey – 18/19 Sep 2025”
3/32 – Turkey: To The Seaside – 15-17 Sep 2025
Mon 15 Sep 2025 A simple day. On the road by 0700. 2 hours and 200km to breakfast in Loba Café, Mersin – a remarkably good croissant filled with ham cheese and tomato. The croissant was good Then another 1½ hours to my destination, the Pinar Motel in Adyincik. The road to here was interesting;ContinueContinue reading “3/32 – Turkey: To The Seaside – 15-17 Sep 2025”
3/31 – Turkey: Borders and Tolls – 12 -14 Sep 2025
Fri 12 Sep 2025 Having decided that, since I wasn’t really enjoying myself, and that I was going to get to milder climes as quickly as possible, I decided to try to make it to the border and get across in one day. As this meant a 360km ride plus the two borders, I wasContinueContinue reading “3/31 – Turkey: Borders and Tolls – 12 -14 Sep 2025”
01/19 – Bumps on my birthday – 27 June – 01 July 2019
27 June 2019 (Late): After my day as a paying tourist, I got down to some serious planning. My insurance for Tz was valid until 5 July, but for Rwanda only until 2 July; that meant I had to get from Keratu to the Uganda border with Rwanda, about 1,300km away in 5 days, includingContinueContinue reading “01/19 – Bumps on my birthday – 27 June – 01 July 2019”
01/18 – Ngorogoro Crater – 27 Jun 2019
I decided to do a day trip to the crater after speaking to a SA couple at Ma & PJ’s snake park. I negotiated a price of $200, with a pick up from Keratu which is just outside the gate. The night before I had met another SA couple who said it was definitely worthContinueContinue reading “01/18 – Ngorogoro Crater – 27 Jun 2019”
01/17 – Tanzania 4 – 23-26 June 2019 – KILIMANJARO
Sun 23 June 2019: Since I have to wait until Monday for my documents, I decided to do a circuit of Kilimanjaro National Park., The first 75km is uphill on reasonable, if twisty roads. It’s cold and I realise I probably should have worn my leather jacket. Before long I have passed 5 000 ft (1ContinueContinue reading “01/17 – Tanzania 4 – 23-26 June 2019 – KILIMANJARO”
Belfast-2-Belfast-By-Bike 