Whilst the European leg of Fromeward Bound was, by necessity, a bit of a dash for the finish line, a short stay in Dubrovnik was always on the cards. And for good reason as things turned out. Aside from being a pretty city; the Game of Thrones connection held high novelty indeed! From Dubrovnik we made […]
Category Archives: final route
Montenegro route
By virtue of it’s size, our time in Montenegro was incredibly short – easily less than 24 hours! The one impression we came away with was that it’s a very pretty place – lots of lots of picturesque villages, the sea to the west and big mountains to the east. We’ll come back one day […]
Albania route
Contrary to the popular belief of everyone we spoke to in Greece, Albania did not turn out to be full of bandits hellbent on robbing us and making off with the car! The reality was pretty much the same as every other country we’ve passed through; people were kind and keen to help out however […]
Greece Route
It’s official! Fromeward Bound stage 1 is now complete!! We rolled up at Clare’s parent’s place in Greece sometime just after lunch today. Plan A was to arrive in very early January. Then about a month ago we formulated plan B, which would see us turning up in mid-December. As it turns out, we’ve arrived […]
Turkey Route
Our first night in Turkey was great – sat by the sea in our chairs enjoying the warmest night’s camping for months, drinking a nice bottle of wine (amongst the piles of rubbish left by previous occupants – sigh.) From there on, however, the rain kicked in and didn’t let up. I’m not sure if […]
Georgia Route
I think I can safely say our visit to Georgia was pretty much all about the cities! And the wine. We really wanted to drive out to some of the northern countryside regions, but after driving south from Russia through the Caucasus Mountains it was apparent that both winter and the snow had arrived making […]
Russia Route (Third visit!)
It’s hard to believe it was only 4 days ago that I posted our Kazakhstan route, bemoaning the difficulties we were having with DHL – feels like weeks ago. On Wednesday we were finally able to collect Brian from the DHL office – hooray!!! There was sadly only time for a brief celebration as we […]
Kazakhstan Route (second visit)
It wasn’t meant to turn out this way, but we’ve now been stationary for 5 days. The long and short of it is that DHL have let us down in a big way and failed to deliver Brian on time. He was meant to be ready for us to collect on Monday, then they said […]
Uzbekistan Route
I’m currently typing this from the city of Atyrau in Kazakhstan having crossed the border from Uzbekistan a few days ago. The entry and exit procedures from Uzbekistan border on the ridiculous with our exit taking over 4 hours. The border guards had a very thorough rummage through literally everything – including a good sniff […]
Tajikistan Route
One of the ‘big ticket’ items on the drive home to Frome was always going to be the ‘Pamir Highway’ – a semi-paved roadway that starts in Kyrgyzstan and climbs up on to the Pamir plateau in Tajikistan before slowly descending to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. I can now report that we have successfully […]