Beste allemaal,

While we are all waiting from an update from Duncan and Yuri, Ruben an Rianne have released the next compilation clip. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/user/FietsenNaarNepal#p/a/u/0/iHhxvbuJteY

Beste allemaal,

Ik heb zojuist te horen gekregen dat mijn visum voor Iran is afgewezen. Ze zijn zo vriendelijk geweest er geen verklaring voor te geven. De kans is groot dat we de rest van de reis in Turkije zullen vervolgen. Gezien de onrust in het Midden-Oosten lijkt het ons niet prettig om zuidwaarts te gaan. Een alternatief zou zijn: Kaukasus => Kaspische Zee => Kazachstan, maar we weten nog te weinig over deze mogelijkheid om er blind op te fietsen. We houden jullie op de hoogte!

Yuri

(tip: click for English)

Voici mon dernier message de ce 'voyage au Nepal'. Ce n'est pas vraiment un voyage, parce que maintenant je ne voyage pas beaucoup, et ce n'est pas vraiment au Nepal, parce que je n'ai pas réussi d'aller plus loin que la frontière de France et Italie). Parce que j'ai passé beaucoup du temps dans mon pays favorit, j'essaye d'écrire un petit message en français pour tout les amis français qui j'ai rencontrés sur la route.

Beste allemaal,

Because Yuri and Duncan were busy arranginging their visa's I went ahead an posted the two new video's. Check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdhGQcwD2T4&feature=related

This is video number three uploaded 30th of March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARp8XMY1JFs

Yesterday Yuri and I decided - it's time for us to leave this city. By 15:30 today we'll take the ferry to a city south of Istanbul, Yalova, from where on we decide whether we will leave the visa be and continue our tour till we've seen all of Turkey, or whether we will return to Istanbul later on to pick up our one way ticket to Persia. If there will be a ticket available for us of course. Without getting in to details - if you're planning to get a visa for Iran, prepare for a bit of patience.

Because Yuri and I are stuck in Istanbul waiting for our Iranian visas to come through, I have had some time to update just about all of the pictures up till now. You'll find them on my picasa, located here.

As some may know from the new pictures I uploaded, I went hiking a week ago. Unlike my earlier hiking experiences in France this year, this did not at all turn out to be good for my knees. The inflammation in the tendons of my knees is not over yet, nor is the inflammation in my Achilles tendons that I developed in March.