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Where are you going in 2013?
Around the Caspian sea
Hi there, My next trip is going to be around the Caspian sea. I will do a full circle, starting in Russia, Volgograd, going east and around. Includes Kasakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Aserbajan, Georgia and across Caucasus back to Volgograd. All in all I plan three weeks, starting in the the beginning of july. 
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14-01-13, 10:45
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Sounds an amazing trip. I'm planning to do Nordkapp and returning via Finland and St Pete, but it won't be this year. Probably France with the daughter is the best I will do.
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14-01-13, 11:13
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Wow. Well I was planning a trip to Spain in April, but sounds rather sad compared to yours...
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14-01-13, 12:00
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Around the Caspian sounds great. We're planning to go to Ulaan Baatar, MON. But due to logistical reasons that will have to wait until 2015.
So for this year we have already planned: - trail riding weekend in Wales end of March - 5 days of Schwarzwald on tarmac in July - trail riding weekend in Wiltshire in August - trail riding weekend in Brabant, Belgium in October - probably some long weekends in the Eifel and Mosel regions in between. And then there's an opportunity to put the bikes on a truck and pick them up at Burgas airport in Bulgaria for next to nothing. So we'll probably do that. Just not sure yet where to go from there. We have 8 days before the bikes need to go back on the truck. So might ride down into Turkey. |
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14-01-13, 14:40
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I'm currently sorting the bike in order to enjoy a couple of months in Morocco getting lost on Pistes. Due to work commitments being extended from February to Easter, I have ruled out heading further south into Africa due to the temps warming up, especially on the return leg.
Given this later departure date, I probably won't go further south than Western Sahara and am aiming to return to the Continent early June to head north to avoid the heat. This leaves me with 6 weeks left of my Sabbatical to wander the earth like an unwashed gypsy. Not entirely sure where that time will be spent, but I am currently reviewing Turkey or a lap of the Black Sea. A lap of the Caspian sounds grand, but doing it in 3 weeks is too fast for me 
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14-01-13, 20:09
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This, and then some....
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I'm off 2morrow for the 2013 DB1K..
meet up with 50 other ADV riders for what has be come pro-log ride to Fairlie for the DB1k.. Then saturday & sunday the DB1k... 1000kms 500 per day of central Otago's valley's & mountain trails... Its been raining for the last day or so.. It's going to be fun with 15 plus river crossing... And 10 to 15 hours rideing per day... 150 riders have entered for the DB1k even a couple of yanks & a Aussie come over for it.... The XTR is going to look quite used by the end of the week end... some vids & picks of last years DB1K http://youtu.be/QwpJDWY6jFM http://www.db1k.com/
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17-01-13, 08:43
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Good on ya Pete................thats looks tough !!!! but i'd love a go at it, pity it's at the other side of the world
Phil
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17-01-13, 09:33
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Got a few plans well in the pipeline so far...
XT660 Lakes Bash in May, Western Isles of Scotland in June, 2 weeks in the French Alps in July, spending a few days in the Vercors Massif area near Grenoble, (awesome limestone gorge area with narrow cliff roads, tunnels etc.), then basing myself in Briancon for some high trails and a day over to Bardoneccia in Italy for the Stella Alpina off-road event. 4 x XT660s going (3 Tens and an R). I still have an August week to decide on :-)
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17-01-13, 11:50
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2 weeks in the French Alps in July, spending a few days in the Vercors Massif area near Grenoble, (awesome limestone gorge area with narrow cliff roads, tunnels etc.), then basing myself in Briancon for some high trails and a day over to Bardoneccia in Italy for the Stella Alpina off-road event. 4 x XT660s going (3 Tens and an R).
Irish guy I think that you mean Bardonecchia in Italy near Turin????? Sounds good xxx
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