Archive by year: 2021
The Motorbike journey across Turkey
Istanbul is a great city, located on two continents simultaneously. We were greeted with drizzle and rather cool weather.Read more
A motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 3. Shikotan
A motorbike trip to Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands. A small green tug with painted Japanese hieroglyphs on the board buried its nose into the side of a huge ship Igor Farkhutdinov, pushing it to the pier.Read more
A motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 2. Kunashir
The Korsakov seaport, where ships depart from for the Kurile Islands, is located 40 km from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Yandex taxi will take you there in 40 minutes and it will cost you 1100 roubles.Read more
A Motorbike journey to the Edge of the World, part 1. Khabarovsk, Sakhalin
Two years ago our trip to the Russian Far East was interrupted in the most unexpected and unpleasant way. When we were 120 km from the port of Vanino (we were in a hurry to catch a ferry to Sakhalin) an old Mazda took me off the highwayRead more
Across Altai by enduro motorbike. June, 2021
Well, finally we reached the genuine Altai. The one where you see snow on the top of the mountains, stormy rivers overflowing their banks, feel pure air, enjoy picturesque roads surrounded by the rocks on which some tall pine trees grow!Read more
A journey to Crimea, 2021
I haven't been to this fabulous peninsula, which I love very much and consider to be my second homeland, for long. That time the bridge was still under construction and the road across Kerch wasn't a pleasant experience.Read more
Around Mexico on a motorbike. Part 2
Oaxaca is a state in central Mexico and a city, its capital. Today we will make a journey into the history of ancient Mexico and get acquainted with what remains of the ancient civilisations that inhabited these territories several millennia agoRead more
Around Mexico on a motorbike. Part 1
“Now you'll feel a little uncomfortable”, – said the masked girl and quickly inserted a thin long flexible stick with a cotton swab on the end into both my nostrils alternately, and then scraped my throat with the other one. Indeed, not a very pleasant sensation, although the whole procedure took less than a minute.Read more