Category Archives: Bicycle touring

Four days in Bangkok

Posted on June 3, 2025 by Bryan Keith

The start of another bicycle trip. We had tickets from İstanbul (IST) to Bangkok via New Delhi on indigo. This turned out to be my fourth winter in row in the tropics (after Sri Lanka, Raja Ampat, and the Philippines). … Continue reading →

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Bicycle touring the Küre Dağları: Amasra to Safranbolu

Posted on March 25, 2025 by Bryan Keith

This short trip was my only self-supported bicycle tour in Turkey in 2024. I piggy-backed it onto our rainy Bartın Bisiklet Festivali. It was raining when I walked to breakfast my last morning in Amasra, but the rain had stopped … Continue reading →

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9. Bartın Bisiklet Festivali

Posted on March 15, 2025 by Bryan Keith

The 9th Bartın Bicycle Festival. Notice that this is called “festival”, not “tour”, making it quite different from the two organized bicycle tours that I’ve done in Turkey (Kayseri and Gökova). The big difference is that we were based in … Continue reading →

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A week in Saint Petersburg

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Bryan Keith

Don’t think you can see the highlights of Saint Petersburg in a week. We barely scratched the surface, and after a week our list of things we wanted to see and do was still longer than what we actually managed … Continue reading →

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Bicycle touring Russia: Ivangorod to Petergof via Gatchina, Pavlovsk, and Pushkin

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Bryan Keith

Wow, what a week of bicycle touring! Of course, I had been to Russia before, but not by bicycle, and I was a little concerned with how we’d be treated as cyclists. We needn’t have worried. First, though, we had … Continue reading →

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