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Georgia and Armenia video

Arpi — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:00:06 +0000

We hope you’ll enjoy it!

Turkey-video

Arpi — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:00:48 +0000

So that you can all get lost in the time-space continuum – as far as our trip is concerned – here is a little musical slide show from Turkey. It is rather far back in time, and in space, but during the vodka drinking session in Irkestam I felt like putting this video together.

Garni and Geghard

Arpi — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:00:41 +0000

We devoted one day to visit two churches east of Jerevan, Garni and Geghard. We didn’t know much about them, but all the maps marked them as great tourist attractions.
We took Marschutka, which is the vehicle of local public transport.
The small bus out of the town, along the beautiful, barren mountainside as far as the town Garni.
The church itself looks like the Parthenon in the Acropolis in Athens and it’s setting is fascinating.
It is on the edge of a steep valley and if you stand beside it you have beautiful views in all directions of the valley and the surrounding mountains.
The Marschutka does not run from Garni to Geghard, so we took a taxi.
Already as we turned into the steep, rocky valley we saw that the side where the cloister stands is unique.
The main church built opposite the rock face is relatively new.
The older churches are hollowed out from the rock, and they open from the main temple.
The symbol of Geghard is the lion in the company of an eagle.
There was another temple on a higher level, we could enter it only from the outside climbing up a small flight of stairs.

As we were going up these stairs, we heard the sound of a choir singing.
If you go to Jerevan, you must visit the Geghard Cloister, because it is enchanting.

In the land of the Kurds

Arpi — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:00:49 +0000

While packing I noticed that one of the spokes in Zita’s rear wheel is broken, we even had to take the Rohloff gears apart a bit. This took quite a lot of time, it was well after 10am (with a lot of heat) by the time I finished.

We only started our breakfast after all this.

We made progress through a desolate countryside, but as soon as we got lower in the valley, we saw that it was not as desolate as we thought. First we saw some beehives, then some sheep.

As soon as we left the valley we came across a gypsy encampment. They were really nice and friendly, and gave us a bottle of cold drinking water.

I was planning to have a midday siesta in Yesilöz köyü. As soon as we got there we could see that it was a very small place, just about big enough to have a mosque, but no shop or teahouse.…

We were sitting by the mosque very tired and exhausted and we had very little food. I asked somebody about a shop, when he gestured that we should follow him. Finally we arrived not at a shop, but in a large courtyard, one corner of which there was his nicely painted house, with his wife and 5 months old baby inside.

A few minutes late 2 more children and 2 grandparents also appeared. This is how Atci (pronounciation: Atji) lives in an extended family.

Lunch was cooked aubergine with home made yoghurt, cheese, eggs, vegetables, bread and tchorba.

It was a big-big adventure to have lunch with them.

The next village was called Tepeköy, one valley further on, on top of a hill, around the height of about 1000m.

We were just about to set up camp on a patch of grass under the minaret, when somebody shouted across in perfect English: „How are you?, Where are you from?”

We found ourselves at Sahap’s family.

In Tepeköy there was a real rural, traditional kurdish wedding, where Sahap took us along.

It was brilliant, a fantastic experience!

The boys and the girls were dancing separately in two circles, to exciting and interesting music – I can’t describe it, watch the video to see it!

I invented that while we are in Turkey, I will put together a small travelling dictionary, which we will put up on the web site as well. And we will also make a list of those aspects of other cultures that we like, in order to introduce them into our life after we return home. Because there is plenty to learn from other people.

The video is from our first 2 days in Asia – we became glommed by the police

Arpi — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:00:15 +0000

This 10 minutes is about this 2 days, and produced for the visual and lazy people ! :)

Conquest of Istanbul by bike

Arpi — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:57:17 +0000

We didn’t ride to Istambul via the quickest, simpliest way (D100), cause we knew it’s a nightmare. We thought it will be a piece of cake getting into the city of 8 million people on recumbents…

Our wedding video

Arpi — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:48:02 +0000

We promised, it has arrived, so now it’s published:

We like it very much! The video was mede by László Szepesi! Thank you very much!

Our sponsor-catching video

Arpi — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:11:54 +0000

We thought we’re gonna publish this small video here as well and not just annoy potential sponsors in e-mail with it.
After all, this website’s been created 4 months before the departure so we could show everyone (including our future sponsors) that this journey could be followed on a serious website that contains plenty of information – and we hope many readers too.

The following video will introduce us, our previous journeys and their media publications, and our current plan.

Dear future sponsors! You may start flooding… :) Kidding aside we’re aware that in the current financial situation there aren’t much money left for this kind of sponsorship, therefore we don’t even expect any other support but some equipment.