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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/

Arrival in Venice

October 14, 2008 • 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, we started to assemble our machines. It took us one hour to do it, then we were ready to cross venice on bikes… Not a good idea.

Tired, we had to carry the bikes and all what we carry from one bridge to anotherto reach the San Marco Plaza where we could take take the Vaporello to go to Punta Sabioni.

We spent our first night in a camping full of Dutch 20 kilometers further. A bit worried to think that we will have to do about a 100 a day to reach Istanbul on time.

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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.