” Stop, stop! I want to take a picture! ” I told to Nicolay in the comunicator. Beyond Istanbul over 400 km you start to feel Asia. The advantage of a motorcycle trip is indisputable. You can see things as they are in their day by day life. Far from the tourist areas, everything is ” like at them ” and has nothing to do with anything you know or knew until then. There’s no doubt that their habits will look strange. Probably the same thing they would say about us if they would visit us. On the edge of a huge pink lake, everyone was bumping and clinging to the same place. Why? Simply because they were staying there as a crowd. Otherwise the shores of the lake were empty and perfectly identical to the crowded place. Turkey June 2019

13th of June 2016. My boss called me in his office and told me that I receive only 2 weeks of holiday at the beginning of August! Oh, my! Oh, my! Suddenly, my dream trip became a nightmare. All my plans seemed to go to waste. I thought about this trip for more than a year and now the chances to fulfil my wishes dropped from 10 to 0 in 5 seconds. Or 5 words.”You get 2 weeks holiday.” Oh s * * t! Ok. Deep breath. Count to 3. Alexandra, you’re gonna make it! 9200 km in 2 weeks straight. August. A BMW F800 GS and a lot of desire for adventure and discovering the world. This was, in broad lines, my summer holiday for 2016. No bikinis, no laying on the beach, no cocktails or sexy dresses this year. It was worth it? Hell, yeah! I started this journey from Transylvania, with my boyfriend and a good friend from Switzerland whom we planned to meet on the road, somewhere in Poland. Of course that we weren’t able to stick to the plan due to the non-stop rain that our friend caught in the first day. Was it hard? […]