…living in and dreaming of…

it was a beautiful ride until 2okm before göreme. after a turnoff heavy head and side winds kicked in and sometimes i head to get off the bike. fighting against the wind not wanting to camp that night, a passing busdriver took pity on me and got me through the worst til ürgüp. it was [...]

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it was a quite uneventful journeyuntil the sunrise when we could see the landscape and the little snow on the side of the road. in the background were snowcovered mountain tops and from inside the bus it looked lovely. as we arrived in kayseri at 8 in the morning with 6 degrees outside the view [...]

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in antalya i first tried to get my camera fixed. i received mail from panasonic with inforamtion on service points and  hoped that it was not a total loss. but both shops told me a price of 400 lira which is as much as i payed for the camera. i postponed the repair and went to [...]

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because of the stops on the way and 2 flat tires i didn’t make it to olympos that day and arrived the next morning. 2 weeks before there was a big flooding and you could still see the effects. it is a strange sight with its treehouses, the unpaved road leading through the village and the [...]

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i soon arrived in xanthos. one of the many ancient sites along the coast and stopped for a second breakfast. later that day i arrived in patara where i skipped the ruins and went straight to the beach. i had a bath in the sea, the first one in asia and the last one for [...]

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it started to rain before i found a place for the night. i was just passing a store with a roofed terrace where some guys were about to grill. i joined them and as the rain was pouring down next to us we had grilled meat (grilled cheese for me) with bread, tomatoes, cucumber, pepperoni and [...]

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soon after fethiye i met nicole and jörg, a swiss-german couple since 17 month on the road from asia. it was wonderful to listen to their stories and still makes me smile when i think about what lies ahead of me. they will spend the winter in egypt before turning to a more direct route homewards. [...]

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the crash should not be the last post… i am in olympos. the world is again a place worth living in (and dreaming of!) i’ll soon post about the way to olympos. next week i’m going to cappadocia. today i got mail: Dear Matthias Erdmann, Pleased to inform you that your visa application has been approved by [...]

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the last photo before my first crash on this tour. i just got a scratch and the digi cam got crashed cause i just put it in my jacket and not back in the front bag. gnarr… it was raining and i thought that i have to overhaul the truck in front of me before [...]

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