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Neda is back to cross-stitching Now that we're taking a break from our travels, Neda is bump-starting her cross-stitching once again. While we were busy frantically riding all over Europe, her hobby had to sit on the back-burner (which is not a good place to put cloth on) neglected. Did I...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/377.html Thailand! We meet once again.... Having spent the whole of last winter in this country, the familiarity of everything around us is like slipping on a pair of old well-worn shoes. All the smiling Sawadee-Kah ladies are still here! On the...

Thanks for following along with us! It's been quite a ride!

We took an early morning bus from Pula to Zagreb, to get to the international airport. On the ride over the mountains.... SNOW!!! What a strange sight! We've spent so many seasons chasing the endless summer back and forth across the equator that it feels like we're seeing the white stuff for...

And also sharing some ice cream! So good to see her again! The last couple of years in Europe have been so social because we have so many friends and family on this continent. It's been a delight doing a bit of touring, then resting and hanging out with people we know, then going back to...

Later on in the week, we take a road trip to Como, about an hour outside of Milan Como is the halfway point between Milan and Lugano, where Bettina is riding down from to meet us! We haven't seen her since the BMW Enduro Course in Germany. That was over a year ago! She told us that she...

Tea is sharing her pictures of the day with her very proud Aunt Neda Although we've spent the last couple of years traveling all over this continent, we're never too far away that we can't ride back to Milan to visit the family every 3-4 months. Even in that short a time-frame, we've seen Tea...

Water is still as glass! North, South, East and West. The rooster knows where we've been... Sestras!

Still water in Val di Mello Reflecting on the beautiful scenery around them Neda bonding with her niece

Val di Mello is in the Italian Alps, a couple of hours north of Milan, near the Swiss border The area is world-famous for rock climbing, the sheer granite walls climbing high above the valley But it's also great for hiking. Not that I would know... I'm just captioning Neda's great photos.

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/376.html We've been on the road for a very long time. And for all that time, we really haven't covered a lot of ground when we look at where we've been on the atlas. As mentioned in the last blog post, part of the reason behind our slow travel is that...

All these boats are for tourists. The only real fishing village out of the five towns is/was Monterosso The entire village rests on these rocks, you can walk around the base underneath Well, that's two villages down. Three more to go! We head back to our campsite and the skies darken...

The classic Cinque Terre shot Riomaggiore is the perfect example of the Cinque Terre cascading buildings perched on the cliff, crowding each other to the very edge of the water like lemmings driving each other over the edge. Rowmaggiore The rocks in the small harbour in Riomaggiore are a...

Back to HQ It looks like we're only managing to see one town a day. At this rate, we'll be here all week. Not sure I can handle that... The next day, we visit the second of five towns: Riomaggiore The single pedestrian road through town leads to a dead end at the waterfront

Monterosso al Mare's sandy beach. It must be packed in the summertime! Looking over the colorful beach blankets the vendors have laid out on the sand It's so pretty and scenic here. Not too many people and the weather is warm and sunny. But still... it seems like we're just not enjoying it...

The medieval buildings here remind me of when we visited the mock-Italian villa of Portmeirion in Wales Now *this* is what the real Italian Riviera looks like! We continue strolling west past the town's centre to the beach on the other side. Of the five villages of Cinque Terre, Monterosso...

We make it to our first Cinque Terre town: Monterosso al Mare Wonderful pastel-colored buildings line the pedestrian streets. It's definitely off-season, but there are still a lot of tourists enjoying the Riviera's warm, late-fall weather. I found out that the buildings were only painted...

Heavy rains in the spring of this year led to extensive landslides which closed down several hiking trails and roads. Several months later, the roads still haven't reopened. This means that we have to take the main highway all the way east to La Spezia and then double back to visit the villages...

Neda had a thought. Since we're going to be passing through Cinque Terre on the way to Pula, why not drop in and see the famous Italian Riviera? It's on the way... Sure. Why not? Beautiful southern shores of Italy As the name Cinque Terre suggests, this part of the Italian Riviera is...

Updated from http://www.RideDOT.com/rtw/375.html We're too tired to even ride back up through the mountains on the east coasts of Sardinia and Corsica. Now that we've decided to leave Europe, we find ourselves in a great rush to get the heck outta here. Since we've both agreed not to venture...