The Postman

My mum’s nagging me now because I’m sat on the sofa still in my dirty riding trousers and the same t-shirt I’ve had on since Saturday. She wants to wash them but I’m hanging on to them for dear life. To see myself in new clothes is going to be weird. Same with the beard. [...]

Well, we did it. Sydney to London on a moped called Dorothy. We’re now just absolutely shattered so off to bed but wanted to first thank you all for following all this way.
It’s been a real blast from beginning to end with it hard to believe it’s now all over. No more riding, no more [...]

We watched Long Way Aroudn last night, it was the first time I’d seen it. Quite honestly at the beginning I was embarrassed for them. Office space, secretaries, gun training, advisors, Russian lessons, I thought it was one big joke. I sat there thinking I left Sydney with two days notice, on a bike I’d [...]

Just having breakfast in the hotel/hostel restaurant. WOW. They’ve got cheese and salami and cereal and fruit and cake and coffee and tea and pots of honey and everything. It’s here, and walking around town last night, that makes me realise just how far we’ve travelled.
When I think what it was like in India and [...]

Yep, bugger me backwards but we’re here in Dresden eating chicken nuggets in yet another Maccas.
We were going to ride the night and be here for breakfast but at 9pm, pitch black on a motorway with dorothy being shot down by chasing lorries we called it a night and pulled into a car park.
At first [...]

Well what d’ya know, we’re in Poland. Woo woo. I know, I can’t believe it either, but yup, the day before yesterday we rocked up to the border full of nerves and trepidation that for some reason they might not let us through yet there really was no need. After a bit of a palava [...]

Well, another day, another 300 kays passed beneath Dorothy’s rear wheel. Incredible, utterly incredible. The vibration’s still there at 60 and she still don’t sound sweet but on she goes.
Yesterday when I got RTWDougs message with the Kiev contact details in I gave them a ring. This is it I thought, I’ll stop in [...]

I don’t believe it; we’re in Ukraine!!
Yeah, f@ck Kazakhstan, f@ck Russia, we’re on the doorstep of Europe and going strong. Well, sort of. Dorothy nearly died yesterday; lost all power, almost stopped, but she seems a little better today with us now only 300 kilometres west of Kiev.
But bugger me it’s been a hard ride [...]

Goose has crashed through the cockpit and the Top gun soundtrack is playing, it can mean only one thing; Dot’s in trouble.
Nothing serious; not yet. But across Kazakhstan she said ‘Nathan, I’m hit, I’m going down. And with two spokes broken and her engine clattering and clanking we approach the final stretch with nerves, trepidation [...]