vienna – rest day
i will take a break from cycling to support the roma music school, a music camp for underprivileged sinti and roma kids in hungary. www.campeurope.org
from aalen (germany) to istanbul, after 3000km and 4 weeks this tour comes to a hold.
bucaresti – videle – arad – budapest – gyor – bruck a.d.l. – vienna
another 26 hours in trains or waiting on them.
istanbul – bucaresti
22 hours on the nighttrain after packing the bike in a huge bikebox.
istanbul – harem – üskündar – istanbul
22km
i took the ferry boat over the bosphorus to ride around the east part of istanbul. on the way back i rode over the highway-bridge and stopped in the middle, because i thought it is a funny idea to stand with one foot in asia and the other in europe. (to bad that i didn´t have a change to take a picture)
istanbul – rest day
a day for some serious sightseeing and extrem-blogging! 
inside the dervis coffee / teahouse
yassioeren – istanbul
50km
the “city” starts about 25km before the center a nd then you enter this very special atmosphere. mosques, tea-houses, markets, steep cobble stone roads….
vize – yassioeren
90km
we had lunch at one of those many picnic-places along the road and met theo, another french cyclist.
a nice guy offering some chicken BBQ
got milk!?
kirklareli – vize
72km
“hi and welcome to turkey” is what we here often and most business is accompanied by some tea-drinking.
tsarevo (carevo) – kirklareli (turkey)
97km
nice climb on the old rough road through the forest to the border. the border crossing was kind of buerocratic with lots of passport controls and stamps. in turkey the road turns into a new highway and rolls “down” to kirklareli. just a couple km before the city i met emil & oscar from sweden (www.thebigtrip.com) who are on the way to bejing.
obzor – tsarevo (carevo)
146km
still overcast and cold winds with rain. not really what i hoped for, but the landscape and the poeple are even in this circumstances very interessting.
