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Golden Summit. Mount Emei, China

Grand Buddha. Leshan, China

Camping 3630metres altitude 105kms from Songpan, China

G30. 1040kms west of Lanzhou, China

Camping in a traffic island 250kms from Urumqi, China

Camping in the Pamirs, 1km from the Tajik/Kyrgyz border

Camping at 4070 metres 10kms from the Tajik/ Kyrgyz border

Camping at 4291 metres. The Pamirs

Camping at Bulunkul settlement, on the Pamir Plateau, Tajikistan

Lunch spot just after the Koi-Tezek Pass on the Pamir Highway

Filling water bottles from a stream. 4133 metres altitude. The Pamir Highway

Camping 3820 metres near first pass from Khorog. Very cold at 6.36am

A couple of days before Khorog, Tajikistan

Camping in the mountains between Dushanbe and Khorog, Tajikistan

Local flora at Toktogul lake Kyrgyzstan

Camping Nowhere, in no-mans land in between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Park Parvaz, Tehran. Flying Park. Mary, Reza & Pete

Gawkoshak, village South of Shiraz. Ali’s Uncle’s pool

Kabir Jameh Mosque, Yazd. Iran

Gawkoshak, village South of Shiraz. Ali’s family house

Very, very windy campsite half way down a mountain on the way to the Black Sea Coast of Turkey.

Marshland camping, Turkey

Paşabağ, Cappadocia. Turkey

Çavuşin, Cappadocia. Turkey

Göreme, Cappadocia. Turkey

Camping near Bilecek, Turkey.
Slept well, but it took ages to get all the mud off our wheels the next day!

Lunch stop, leaving Polatlı, Turkey

Inside the Greek Orthodox Church. Buyukada, Istanbul

Galatta Bridge, Istanbul

Inside the Blue Mosque, Istanbul

Blue Mosque, Istanbul

Grand Bazaar, Istanbul

Kebabs, people and cars. Taksim, Istanbul

Acropolis, Athens

Sunrise campsite at the beach. Neoi Poroi, Greece

Palaios Panteleimonas

Skala Peak, Mount Olympus. 2866m

Hiking up Mount Olympus

Refuge A, Mount Olympus. Greece

Camping on the beach near Litohoro, Greece

View of Thessaloniki. Stelios, Mary and me

Escaping the rain (and the giant black triangle) leaving Macedonia towards Greece

Szimpla Bar, Budapest

Boat from Ancona, Italy to Split, Croatia

Podere il Fornacino, Italy

Piazza San Marco, Venice
So hot. So crowded.

Sauling Mountain, Austrian Alps.

Crowded campsite near Lindau, Germany
Check out the one legged girl staring at the camera.

Cathédrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg

780 metre up hill leaving Raon-sur-Plaine
This was our first taste of serious hill-climbing. Not sure if we can quite use the word mountain yet.

Wild camping

Pate, beer and bread. Grez sur Loing

Chateaux du Fontainebleau

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