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/
Hvar Island
October 22, 2008 • 0 Comments Croatia
A complete day in Hvar Island, very relaxing.
We really need a shower, unfortunately we can't find any water… We have a great idea, we borrow the garden hose of vacated house, we bring it over their wall, and have a cold shower…
It is so nice to feel clean.
We spend the whole day on a...
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Hvar Island to Dubrovnik
October 22, 2008 • 0 Comments Croatia
We wake early as always to catch the morning ferry. Martin takes some artistic pictures to make the ferry's journey go faster.
Arriving in Dubrovnik, we are assaulted by an army of Croatians offering a bedroom in their house for 15 euros per person… As we cycle accross the city at every...
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From Dubrovnik to Kotor
October 22, 2008 • 0 Comments Montenegro
We wake with all our cats…
And head off to Kotor, happy to discover another country.
Leaving Dubrovnik on the E65 is scary, buses pass so close to us, the road is very narrow, and we can see the deep on our right hand side.. If we stay in the middle, they horn at us, if we are on the...
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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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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.
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