About The Adrien and Martin Joly Blog
Brothers Adrien and Martin follow in the footsteps of many travelers who crossed the Balkans from antiquity to modern times. But they do it by bicycle! Starting on October 6, they have given themselves one month to cycle the nearly 2,100-kilometre distance between Venice and Istanbul. In their blog, they reflect on and document their journey as they travel through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey.
Their blog in French is at http://balkansavelo.unblog.fr/
From Kotor to Budva… The catastrophe
October 22, 2008 • 0 Comments Montenegro
Things start badly this morning, impossible to find something to fix Martin's bike..
We spend the morning trying to understand what is broken in the complex “changing gear system”, for four hours until we give up… and use an elastic to make it work… .
Adrien is annoyed that we might not...
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Peaceful day in Zadar
October 16, 2008 • 0 Comments Croatia
After the last day of hard cycling, we spend the day relaxing in Zadar. Not really in fact, we have to update the website, charge all our electric devises and our bodies need a rest. Knees and bottom are particularly in pain.
We do a bit of shopping for us and also for “Connor and...
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From Zadar to Rogoznico
October 16, 2008 • 0 Comments Croatia
We wake up at 7am, leave our little camp and head off to split.
How hard it is to leave Zadar, and find the right road, avoiding motorways. Eventually we are on the road again. We find it very hard to cycle and after one kilometre, we wonder how we will be able to cycle 140km…
Arrival in Venice
October 14, 2008 • 0 Comments Bulgaria
We arrived in Venice on tuesday morning, with our bikes in a box… and no sleep at all.
The whole night we were annoyed by an horrible italian ticket collector who thought that we should pay him 100 euros in Cash for carrying the bikes.
At 9,00Am, on the platform of Venice train station,...
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From Jesolo to Portogruaro
October 14, 2008 • 0 Comments Bulgaria
After a long night of sleep, we wake up at 11,00Am, and already our plan to do a 100 km seems compromised.
It takes us hours to organise ourselves, to pack all our things, our bikes are new and need fixing, and adjusting.
We eventually start our journey accross the plains of Northern...
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Adrien and Martin Joly
French brothers Adrien and Martin – both passionate travellers, embark on their first journey together as they cycle across the Balkans. When not travelling, Adrien works as at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton as an interpreter, while Martin works for an NGO in Paris. Adrien considers his first important journey to have been when he travelled along the Amazon River and relied on the local people’s hospitality 10 years ago. Martin, who also practices photography as an amateur, spent a year in Central America and walked across Iceland, the Pyrenees and Peru.
