We're bike packing!
We are going to be covering more than 7,000 km on our bikes.
We are starting in Kayseri in Turkey (with a days skiing at Mount Erciyes) where we will begin by cycling to Cappadocia and then heading south towards the coast.
We will follow the Mediterranean all the way to Izmir, catch a ferry to Athens, and continue our journey up to Slovenia through Albania, Bosnia, Montenegro and Croatia, linking together bike packing routes where possible.
We will cross Italy into Spain, where we will watch the Tour de France, and plan the next stages of our journey to Switzerland, Austria, Czech, the Netherlands, and Southern Spain.
These are our bikes (the Bulldog and Maxine), which we have loaded with the only the very essentials we need to eat, cook, sleep, ride, work, fix any mechanical issues or flat tyres... This enables us to have the freedom to plan our trip and campsite locations as we go.
We have spent many hours deliberating what we need, what products will be best, finding deals and discounts, and figuring out the best packing set up.
Each item has been carefully chosen to serve as many purposes as possible.
