Johannes Chudoba

I chose “Centraleurasian” as my online identity because it is, as precisely as any single word can be, the right tag. My DNA carries Central and Eastern European threads — among them Ashkenazi. I spent seven formative years in Istanbul before we moved back to Graz in 1982. In 1989 I cycled from Graz via…

Paul wanted to be on the bike by 6am, we ended up getting underway by 7am. Progress was slow for the first three hours – speed limits rarely above 70km/h, long villages stretching for many kilometres. While Craiova was very charming indeed, we didn’t give the rest of Romania much of a chance to get…

Finally out of customs and ready to ride in the EU. As not many individual travellers come through here, the insurance companies don’t maintain kiosks in Varna Ferry Port. While the border officials were kind and helpful, they insisted they could only release our motorcycles once we provided proof of insurance. It took a little…

One more small ferry crossing before we walked to our hotel (as the motorcycles needed to stay in customs).

Just who’ll stop the rain? We are scheduled to reach Varna around noon on 22 April: https://www.ukrferry.com/en/ship/vessel-vilnius-seaways#schedule May not have internet for most of the crossing.