A quick video summary of the trip through Mongolia. We were overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity shown to us in Mongolia, we hope to be back again some day. Living it up in Russia now! We’ve been stuffing our faces with cheese and cake,… Read More
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Mongolian food
Mongolian food is very much a meat and flour based cuisine with not much room for fruit, vegetables or spices. A typical meal at a Mongolian restaurant, noodles and meat washed down with milky, salty tea.
Mongolia-Tosontsengel to Ulgii
An inviting gate on the way into Tosontsengel. A quadrent of hanging horse sculls. Idillic campsite, we thought we were in the middle of nowhere in this wooded hillside until an old man came rolling silently on his motorbike and offered us blueberries… Read More
Japan-Hakusan
With less than a month to go I have started clearing out my apartment. Today I found some photos that I had forgotten about. This time last year we went on our first cycle tour around the Hakusan area of Ishikawa. We only had one pannier… Read More
Pre-Departure Test Run (Japan)
We spent a week cycling around the Japanese Alps for golden week. We left Kanazawa with each bike weighing about 10 kg lighter than what we plan to carry when we are in Mongolia. We still hadn’t gathered all the equipment we needed to assure us… Read More



