Date | Km | Country | Latitude (N) | Longitude (E) | Alt | Comments |
15/03/06 | 0 | UK | 51deg30'28''09 | 0deg07'39''29 | 40 | London. Trafalgar Square |
05/04/06 | 0 | France | 48deg51'37''34 | 2deg20'19''05 | 118 | Paris. Zango Bar |
09/04/06 | 0 | Germany | 48deg08'24.98'' | 11deg35'47.49'' | 560 | Munich. Prinz RegentenStr. |
09/04/06 | 85 | Germany | 48deg32'31.53'' | 12deg09'37.64'' | 455 | Landshut. Isarweg |
10/04/06 | 160 | Germany | 48deg46'34.66" | 12deg52'26.84" | 449 | Plattling. Isarmünd |
11/04/06 | 190 | Germany | 48deg45'31.85" | 13deg01'06.54" | 358 | Fisrt sight of the Danube ! |
11/04/06 | 233 | Germany | 48deg34'16.49" | 13deg27'59.46" | 357 | Passau. 2-day stop |
13/04/06 | 305 | Austria | 48deg22´08.94" | 14deg01´37.66" | 291 | Aschach an der Donau |
14/04/06 | 398 | Austria | 48deg13´36.04" | 14deg51´20.75" | 292 | Grein an der Donau |
1504/06 | 465 | Austria | 48deg13´38.83" | 15deg19´44.74" | 253 | Impressive Stift von Melk |
16/04/06 | 513 | Austria | 48deg22´29.86" | 15deg44´28.15" | 256 | After Krems. 1st night outdoor |
17/04/06 | 598 | Austria | 48deg10´44.21" | 16deg20´28.78" | 252 | Imperial Vienna ! |
19/04/06 | 605 | Austria | 48deg09´53.52" | 16deg30´43.34" | 138 | Meandres out of Vienna |
19/04/05 | 658 | Austria | 48deg07´43.96" | 16deg44´52.69" | 196 | Eckartsau. 1st night in hammoc |
20/04/06 | 710 | Slovaquia | 48deg01´38.46" | 17deg14´31.39" | 187 | Water everywhere |
20/04/06 | 730 | Slovaquia | 47deg59´17.50" | 17deg20´34.29" | 198 | Observed a beaver |
21/04/06 | 770 | Slovaquia | 47deg47´44.75" | 17deg39´13.01" | 179 | Entering Hungary |
21/04/06 | 810 | Hungary | 47deg38´23.41" | 17deg59´00.46" | 176 | Balbona, on my way to Tata |
21/04/06 | 840 | Hungary | 47deg38´48.81" | 18deg19´38.92" | 175 | Tata and its superb lake |
22/04/06 | 855 | Hungary | 47deg38´57.44" | 18deg26´00.54" | 495 | It becomes hilly... and hot |
22/04/06 | 930 | Hungary | 47deg31´38.14" | 18deg57´04.26" | 430 | Mount Buda, last effort |
22/04/06 | 950 | Hungary | 47deg30´52.76" | 19deg04´42.75" | 136 | Heroes' Square. Budapest. |
29/04/06 | 1000 | Hungary | 47deg14´04.84" | 19deg05´03.90" | 189 | 1000 km from Munich and no beer to celebrate it ! |
29/04/06 | 1005 | Hungary | 47deg12´43.78" | 19deg06´34.37" | 207 | Can you see the small house where I slept ? |
30/04/06 | 1043 | Hungary | 47deg00´18.71" | 19deg23´10.75" | 187 | 1st puncture in a labyrinth of sand and trees |
30/04/06 | 1085 | Hungary | 46deg54´24.97" | 19deg41´02.24" | 189 | Kecskemét, after a long day |
01/05/06 | 1136 | Hungary | 46deg35´01.71" | 19deg43´06.03" | 173 | Bugac Nat. Park, under the rain |
01/05/06 | 1198 | Hungary | 46deg15´06.79" | 20deg08´52.83" | 355 | Klauzal Ter, Szeged. |
03/05/06 | 1228 | Hungary | 46deg10'30.49" | 20deg21'29.83" | 53 | Oil wells and a small refinery |
03/05/06 | 1241 | Romania | 46deg09'08.37" | 20deg28'23.06" | 120 | Border point Hungary-Romania |
03/05/06 | 1330 | Romania | 45deg45'07.83" | 21deg13'29.58" | 128 | Timisoara, Cathedral Square. |
04/05/06 | 1372 | Romania | 45deg29'00.43" | 21deg30'35.66" | 204 | A sneaky snake, right in my wheel |
04/05/06 | 1419 | Romania | 45deg21'20.57" | 21deg49'16.39" | 232 | The Great Plains are now behind me ! |
04/05/06 | 1440 | Romania | 45deg16'14.72" | 21deg58'14.44" | 523 | Marian's house. He welcomed me when night was falling... |
05/05/06 | 1484 | Romania | 45deg06'42.11" | 21deg56'51.27" | 956 | Thousands of silver trees ! |
05/05/06 | 1521 | Romania | 45deg00'12.12" | 21deg57'35.34" | 365 | Such an elfish looking place !Elrond's Rivendale ? |
06/05/06 | 1552 | Romania | 44deg51'52.26" | 22deg05'57.20" | 402 | Under a storm, before attacking the last part of the Carpathians... Water-mills, along a river |
06/05/06 | 1571 | Romania | 44deg47'18.90" | 22deg10'21.10" | 999 | 6 sheppherds accepted to share their meal and common room with me... Bless them ! |
07/05/06 | 1655 | Romania | 44deg35'35.29" | 22deg49'00.81" | 423 | Where the Carpathians fall beautifully into the Danube |
07/05/06 | 1703 | Romania | 44deg26'47.80" | 23deg16'37.30" | 297 | Would you offer your bed to an unknown, dirty and exhauted cyclist at nightfall ? Edi did offer me his whole house... |
08/05/06 | 1730 | Romania | 44deg24'58.62" | 23deg34'21.10" | 423 | Gentle hills and a lovely countryside... |
08/05/06 | 1753 | Romania | 44deg19'04.15" | 23deg48'03.57" | 160 | University square. Craiova |
08/05/06 | 1793 | Romania | 44deg02'50.90" | 23deg57'04.83" | 135 | Rojýste. Nýght outdoors |
09/05/06 | 1848 | Romania | 43deg52'34.85" | 24deg25'27.91" | 91 | Výsýna. A sceondary school where I gave a conference for the day of Europe. |
09/05/06 | 1910 | Romania | 43deg45'24.17" | 25deg03'29.55" | 91 | Seaca. Where the police found me a place to sleep and where I got drunk wýth frýendly tsigans |
11/05/06 | 2022 | Romania | 43deg53'21.52" | 26deg00'25.57" | 132 | Border point between Romania and Bulgaria. Last crossing over the Danube ! |
11/05/06 | 2067 | Bulgaria | 43deg36'15.40" | 26deg03'14.06" | 277 | Facing wind, hills and rain... |
11/05/06 | 2129 | Bulgaria | 43deg14'16.02" | 26deg18'10.16" | 292 | Konak, in the mountains. Sleeping outdoors under the stars and the full moon. |
12/05/06 | 2183 | Bulgaria | 42deg38'47.99" | 26deg40'07.84" | 181 | A 5-road roundabout...after the hard slopes, the rain and the poor visibility... and the truck-driver who offered me a lift for 50 km. |
12/05/06 | 2222 | Bulgaria | 42deg23'26.23" | 26deg53'08.43" | 213 | 2 222 222 m from Munich ! |
13/05/06 | 2239 | Bulgaria | 42deg21'49.36" | 27deg01'02.65" | 142 | Draka. Despite i arrived wet, exhausted and late, Jurdan and hýs wýfe took me in their arms and behaved as if wýth their own son |
13/05/06 | 2287 | Bulgaria | 42deg11'26.07" | 27deg20'22.41" | 406 | Right in a magnificient forest of oak trees... I arrived to the roundabout N-NW and turned W. |
13/05/06 | 2312 | Bulgaria | 42deg05'49.44" | 27deg27'34.41" | 368 | Svezdec. One more night outdoors. I only installed the mosquito net and the nýght was beautýful. |
14/05/06 | 2345 | Turkey | 41deg58'11.55" | 27deg27'46.03" | 688 | Border point between Bulgaria and Turkey... My bike makes many people laugh... Others seem admýratýve... |
14/05/06 | 2400 | Turkey | 41deg44'54.28" | 27deg36'04.32" | 464 | Peaceful nýght at the lake of Evcilfer... Frogs, dogs, cows... You are never alone travellýng... |
15/05/06 | 2484 | Turkey | 41deg23'07.81" | 28deg11'41.95" | 261 | Binkilic. I slept outdorrs there, having a fantastic výew on the village to the North. |
16/05/06 | 2539 | Turkey | 41deg10'57.77" | 28deg33'19.14" | 50 | Nakkas, Before my final run to Istanbul. |
16/05/06 | 2575 | Turkey | 41deg00'24.76" | 28deg58'41.18" | 15 | Between Ayasofia and the Blue Mosque. Istanbul. |
19/05/06 | N/A | Turkey | 38deg38'42.07" | 34deg49'47.27" | 1156 | Goreme in Cappadoccia. My bike stayed in istanbul. Check out the fantastic geological landscape. |
22/05/06 | N/A | Turkey | 38deg15'12.22" | 34deg18'28.46" | 1275 | ihlara Valley in Cappadoccia. A cut in the Earth. A green and fresh paradise with lots of byzantines ruins. |
24/05/06 | N/A | Turkey | 41deg00'24.76" | 28deg58'41.18" | 15 | Holidays are over. Math is now back in France. I shall leave istanbul promptly and sail across the Bosphorus to Asia. |
26/05/06 | 2578 | Turkey | 41deg10'44.29" | 29deg05'42.43" | 180 | Apparently, the narrowest part of the straight ... That´s where I landed and returned to my bike |
27/05/06 | 2578 | Turkey | 41deg13'27.67" | 29deg13'02.02" | 31 | Riva. 1st night on the Black Sea... After a heavy storm, the sky was clear and the vessels were sailing continuously out of the Bosphorus. |
28/05/06 | 2675 | Turkey | 41deg08'56.10" | 29deg42'37.16" | 143 | Those hills are exhausting me. |
29/05/06 | 2682 | Turkey | 41deg09'15.62" | 29deg43'52.51" | 77 | A 24h-rest was most necessary. i slept 2 nights in the sands a few yards away from the breaking waves. |
31/05/06 | 2746 | Turkey | 41deg03'19.92" | 30deg10'53.57" | 87 | Kandira, which speciality is... yogurt ! mmmh !... |
31/05/06 | 2746 | Turkey | 41deg04'26.02" | 30deg53'19.41" | 53 | Kadikoy. i slept on the balcony of a charming cottage facing the Black Sea... The owners were absent and there was almost no mosquito at all. |
01/06/06 | 2880 | Turkey | 41deg10'49.44" | 31deg25'20.06" | 192 | Off the main (and busy) roads along the Black Sea again. My way meets more hills - even mountains - but it is safer and absolutely magnificient... There are green fields, forests and flowers everywhere! |
01/06/06 | 2900 | Turkey | 41deg10'30.81" | 31deg34'54.59" | 400 | Last night, i turned into a squirrel... i slept amazingly well in the a field of nut-trees at the top of a 'baby' mountain... |
02/06/06 | 2920 | Turkey | 41deg13'44.81" | 31deg41'13.84" | 200 | Gunesli. it is noon and 40 degrees outside : A good moment to have a tea with a few people, after a cold lunch along the road and update my blog. |
04/06/06 | 3000 | Turkey | 41deg11'58.58" | 32deg19'50.29" | 143 | Yenice. A puncture and a storm made me eventually accept the Mayor's invitation to stay in his city to celebrate my 3000th km ! It was a wise decision when i remember how hard the way forward was. |
05/06/06 | 3044 | Turkey | 41deg14'44.59" | 32deg41'25.40" | 445 | Safranbolu. A fantastic place to rest at ! This is a beautiful village places on the junction of 2 narrow but deep canions. The GPS point was taken from the Castle. |
06/06/06 | 3131 | Turkey | 41deg17'33.28" | 33deg30'56.95" | 1104 | in a field on my way to Kastamonu... Since a few days, evenings have brought strong wind and heavy clouds, which turn often into storm... |
07/06/06 | 3164 | Turkey | 41deg22'39.27" | 33deg46'29.03" | 838 | Kastamonu. A beautiful city dominated by a powerful castle. the GPS point was taken from the Great Mosque square, the castle is straight W of it. |
08/06/06 | 3216 | Turkey | 41deg07'35.64" | 34deg04'20.91" | 1650 | Tosay Pass. My first ride above 1500m ! And also my first fall off the bike because of a truck rushing upwards... No hurt, just fear. |
09/06/06 | 3270 | Turkey | 40deg56'26.97" | 34deg13'40.03" | 1625 | Turbe Pass : 15km of a rather steep slope and a good meal at the top well protected from the icy gales... Not for long, since some heavy black clouds appearing in the sky made me rush downwards to escape from the rain and the lightenings. |
10/06/06 | 3313 | Turkey | 40deg44'09.05" | 34deg28'28.51" | 845 | Iskilip where i stayed 2 nights, Again a castle. The village is beautifully located in the mountains. |
11/06/06 | 3351 | Turkey | 40deg34'05.33" | 34deg42'12.06" | 982 | Arpalic. A sheppherd invited me in his house where i slept and where i had supper with him and his family (incl. women) . it has been the 1st time after 20 nights in Turkey. |
12/06/06 | 3389 | Turkey | 40deg34'50.80" | 34deg59'42.58" | 968 | Corum. The artificial lake where i spent the night, close to the city. |
14/06/06 | 3500 | Turkey | 40deg25'00.52" | 35deg48'36.05" | 1210 | A marble mine at the top of a 3h-ascent, on my way to Zile |
16/06/06 | 3595 | Turkey | 40deg18'52.52" | 36deg33'02.38" | 680 | Tokat, where i stayed two nights and where i received 2 new tires ans some spare tubes sent from France. i also had a great dinner with two of the city post officers who were so helpful and so nice to me ! |
