Arrival on the Asian continent & the way back | Cycling to Asia | Video diary Episode 17

▶ Follow my journey: https://www.youtube.com/@GernotCycling

▶ Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBY4TWKGi14d_T8VokSTis8ZDn6PGwpjo

▶ Chapters:
00:00 Day 64
10:49 Day 65
24:18 Day 66
32:39 Outro

▶ Some tools and Equipment:
• Bicycle: Trek 520 2023
• Carrier: Bontrager BackRack Deluxe MIK
• Front carrier: Bontrager Carry Forward
• Mudguard: SKS Bluemels 28 Inch
• Panniers: 24L Waterproof Riverside Touring Pannier Bike Bag
• Front Panniers: 14L Waterproof Riverside Touring Pannier Bike Bag
• Other bags: Watertight – 5 to 15 L. Riverside Bikepacking Handlebar Bag
• Burner: Tatonka Burner Set
• Navigation: Garmin Edge 830
• Camera: GoPro Hero 11 Black
• Route Planning: Komoot
• Solar Charger: BigBlue 28W Portable
• Powerbanks: Sunnybag 10,000 mAh, Anker PowerCore 20100mAh

▶ Music: The music in this episode is from the YouTube Audio Library. All music is subject to the standard YouTube Audio Library license.

Filmed & edited by Gernot.

Follow my bicycle journey from Germany to the Asian continent. The route is roughly planned: Germany – Austria – Slovenia – Croatia – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Montenegro – Albania – North Macedonia – Bulgaria – Turkey (Europe and Asia) – Greece – Italy – Switzerland – Lichtenstein – Germany. Changes are highly probable.

Hello and welcome back to a new episode of my journey cycling from Germany to Asia it is 6:00 and I’m still in grease but the Turkish bord is around 30 kilomet away let’s Go I would say that’s the road I will not Take D H I just arrived and took It it’s halfast 11 now and I cycled I would say 15 km and yeah only this route here and I have 10 more to go or 15 and then uh to the right and 4 kilometers like this again so that’s the first Shadow place I found I will make a little midday break

Here and then continue and maybe I will find a imis restaurant fast food restaurant some there here on the street yeah the street is very nice it’s very clear very very solid and not much traffic the only thing is very up and down so there it was up then down again

Here it was up again and it is there down again and up again I think that’s how it will be the next 100 kilm or so so yeah just make my break and and continue yeah my my plan for today is to cycle 100 km because then I’m near to

The sea I don’t know if there’s a beach uh yeah we’ll see okay I just checked the next Beach on my route uh yeah it’s a 90 or 80 90 kilm so I don’t know would be nice I really want to be today on the

Beach it is 12:00 now and yeah I have already 45 kilomet I would see uh Yeah okay I am now at 880 km in total for today uh so yeah it’s 40 more to go to the Beach I think I’ve reach the top so now I have already 900 vertical M and I think it’s yeah 30 km I have to do but most of the time it will go uphill uh down Here Ooh 100 now only more to go yeah I’m just doing a quick break here under the bridge eating some bisquits finally yeah tomorrow I have to cycle that up again Okay I was in the sea here so many people yeah looks like really uh this is the only Beach here many many people I thought that I can camp just here uh I don’t know I will just have a look if I find a place and yeah 7:00 if not I think I

Think I will just cycle up Again I was at the restaurant and yeah I just wanted to ask um the people there if I can use the Wi-Fi really quick and then we talked a lot and yeah in the end I ate their uh pet and Lun which was very good and so yeah turkey you can wild cap

Everywhere and I found not this place here which is very good but of course garbage there as always so I just a build up the tent but I have a beautiful view here which is great so I haven’t go up there yet so I will do this now oh that’s great

So there would be a nice camp sport as well yeah but it’s uh no I will not bring the bicycle to there the t is standing yeah was the light off and then on again or had I just illusion because few minutes ago I was already here and the lights were on

So yeah that’s that’s great that’s a great spot okay it’s very beautiful very very beautiful yeah so tomorrow I will cycle to atup at up and there will take the ferry to the Asian continent yeah good morning so it is 7:00 I will dismantle everything and yeah then I will start

So now we just follow the Highway up and Down there’s the Asian Continent All right it’s a time that I didn’t know that yes and I think it’s a very L one so yes I think I will just put my safety West on Turn All the Lights On and yeah I don’t know how long the tunnel is yeah 2,500 M all right turn lights on

But no cars turning lights on here it’s crazy all right just left the tunnel and there’s another one okay but this time it’s just yeah 600 M and it it’s very quiet I had just a few cars in the tunnel so it’s [Applause] good and there’s another tun

All right that one is 1.3 kilm so it’s 1 minute before 11:00 and I think yeah the ferry goes every hour so I will see if I get on the boat or not I did it I’m on the boat W Just arrived of the Asian CL For I just left the city and I’m yeah on the road [Applause] again all right I did uh 40 kilm after the city sakal and yeah going to make break here eat something and yeah so today I have already 90 kilom I will see how yeah how much I will do today but

Yeah on on the road it’s possible to do many Kilometers of you now I have cycled 110 kilm and yeah I stopped at the restaurant here direct at the road uh yes but I don’t know what I ordered I don’t know the name so a salad and yeah rice with meat and something to drink yeah it’s 7:00 now so I will just

Eat check the route for tomorrow and yeah then at 8:00 or so I will go on and search for a camp spot okay it’s close to Half 8 now and I’ve just checked satellite imagery [Applause] so uh in 10 km there should be a good spot

So just doing 10 more kilm and then yes finding the t spot all right let’s see huh so yeah I think I can just build up the tent here because I have no problems with the street sound that the cars so I will just follow the path a little

Bit but yeah there are hous is in I would say uh yeah almost 1 kilomet not much more and I saw saw there already some dogs and yeah there are cheps yeah you can hear that yes I will not go further because of the dogs and I don’t

Know I think I will just have a look there at the spot uh yeah like I said it’s a very direct to the street but that’s okay and there’s the the shepher going and without a dog so I think yeah he just let the dog with the chips there so I will yeah

Search another Camp spot all right I think I found the spot for today so there was a tunnel um under the the highway yeah which leads me to or let me to this Forest but there yeah there was a lot of sheep uh but the Sheep path uh got

Weaker so I just hope that here yeah are not that many sheeps or I mean that in the morning yeah no sheeps are coming I hope and I will just yeah I will just leave very very early in the morning what I usually do so that’s no

Problem okay the tent is built up but yeah it was very difficult because the ground yeah was very or is is very um solid okay I’ve set an alarm clock at 5:00 um and yeah just because I don’t know yeah if there are sheeps coming on

The one hand and on the other hand uh my plan is to cycle another 110 kilm to uh ivik and to take a ferry there to Lesbos that’s my plan to for today h for tomorrow and yeah and the ferry goes at 6 6:00 and I would like to be there at

4:00 or so then I can buy a ticket and have a little bit puff buffer and yeah maybe I will go to the supermarket as well so 5:00 is the alarm clock for tomorrow good morning so it’s 5:00 and yeah I can hear the the Bells from the

Sheeps on the other side and there are also dogs barking so I think that the sheeps are going back to the field on the other road yeah all right I just dismantle the tent and then I recycle on all right it’s halfast 6 and I will go back to the road

So it’s 9:20 and yeah I’ve already 42 kilm I just stopped at a supermarket and bought 4.5 new lit uh water botles and yeah just making a quick break in the in the shadows and then I will continue so I I will be able to be

And catch the the in Iva Leake at 6:00 so maybe I will just cycle yeah 40 more kilometers when search uh for restaurant again like yesterday and eat something traditional and so police officers stopped me at the police car and I first of first I thought oh no what’s

Happening now but uh they gifted me I don’t know some bread yeah they said it’s spread uh and they gave me all of them oh that’s great so I don’t know what it is uh he said that it’s bread [Applause] I just arrived at the

Beach and here have a pH so I will wash some clothes SE and eat something I think the bread uh from the policeman police officers okay so I made a break at the restaurant ate uh some C with salad I have only 15 kilm to the ferry it’s

2:00 so I’m good in the timetable which is perfect fa goes at 6:00 go to lesos and yeah Camp there and tomorrow there I can go to the supermarket there and yeah take the ferry back to Athens then or I should say peros yeah I just arrived in ival leag bought my

Ticket so at 6:00 Ferry goes and now it’s 3:00 yeah I should there be there at 5:00 so I will just doing a 2 hours break search the supermarket and I think I will yeah buy me a bucket of ice cream again sadly here is not a beach so yeah

I’m just sitting in the shadows and waiting one more hour until yeah I have to go to the ship or yeah it’s a katamaran I think that’s why it’s so expensive so I paid 24 25 and it’s just 50 minutes speech spee spee I just arrived in mitilini in uh on the

Island Lesbos and from Turkey to here I had to to pack every package off and get to the laser to the scanner to the controller which was very stressful because all people came and I have to yeah dismantle 10 things 11 12 things and then pack them up again it’s close to

8:00 now I will just search for the uh ticket shop and buy yeah the ticket for tomorrow uh from here to peros Athens all right I just bought a ticket like I said it’s already 8:00 and here’s is a beach I will just just check if there’s a

Shower uh yeah but it’s sadly a little bit too late to go into the sea and then search a camp spot I will see I will see how the how the beaches all right everything is set up and yeah I would say it’s a really a perfect camping spot here

So not a single mosquito beautiful view I had reached my destination on my journey to set food on the Asian continent after taking the fery to peros I drove to patas and took another fairy to an Cora from there I went for Italy over the pra pass to Austria until I

Arrived back in Germany yeah so I’ve built up the tent here it is already already yeah after 10:00 but today there should be a storm and very near is a strong electricity so I will pack everything and yeah cycle a little bit more and search a better camping

Spot yeah because it’s very dangerous to sleep under these electricity Lanes by storm okay now okay now you should see it okay and it’s start Terin okay everything is in the tent perfect timing I would say say all right I’m trying to use the bicycle here as a oh oh everything’s wet

Here so I had really no okay I had at the beginning some problems refrain but I was but most of the time so lucky so of course at the end then must be a big big thunder storm all right so that’s good here this one is strong okay so it’s a very

Nice cycling Road here but I have all the time when to G me okay I have my first flat tire yeah I just arrived in Austria [Applause] Man you thanks to all the people who accompanied me on this trip who I met and who supported Me [Applause] Oh Oh [Applause] A Oh [Applause] Oh [Applause] A