This page is intended as a thank you to those people who have helped us along the way. Elaine & David (Canterbury) , Noel & Else (Ollay sur Viroin), Maria (Korinthos) we haven't your photos, but thank you!
Roman in Bratislava - for excellent directions and we hope you are back on your bike soon
The ambulance driver in Dujanska Streda who didn't give us his name but gave us the cycle map of Slovakia's Danube River
Gabor and Zsolt, in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Hope the chicken-adorned Harley bicycle keeps on cycling
Enrico the Italian cyclist who disapproved of Croatian pizza "bastard pizza" or was he saying enough pizza? We weren't sure
Manoli & Toula at Akrata Camping, Peloponnese - sorry, Toula, that we didn't get your photo
Girls, Pat and Sandy who we meet at Akrata Camping
Chris & Nadine, our Swiss friends who we travelled with in Greece for a week and learnt to appreciate 'more stones' www.underwegs.ch
Mustapha, cyclist and tour guide of Bodrum, and Aysa who has brought Australian musician, Xavier Rudd and his didgeridoo to her Turkish bar playlist.
Sema and Noel, our wonderful Bodrum hosts. Sema, we send you our throughts through the stars as promised
Bahattin who looked after us with endless cups of cay, good conversation, a shower and a room for the night.
Yusuf, one of Turkey's finest chefs
Maria, our Georgian teacher
Mehmet and Ibrahim Ekici, our Yalvac hosts
Felix, our fellow traveller and German pilgrim. May your feet carry you to where you want to be.
Çagri and Melin, two students in Konya who guided us to the free campsite and were polite about our Turkish tea effort
Ali and the Gorkhan family in Saratli
David the Swiss cyclist on route to India www.velotrip.ch
Marco, Swiss cyclist and man of great heart, who impressed us with his recumbent bicycle and five year plan, and assured us that there are people left in Switzerland, not all out cycling! www.acrosscontinents.ch
Hajji and Ali at Ava Petrol, Diyarbakir-Bingol highway intersection
Ali and his family, near Diyarbakir
James and the Giant Beard. James the cyclist extraordinaire and Caucaus expert, now on his second world trip www.tbilisi-telaviv.blogspot.com
Fatih, Gorkhan and their grandfather in Catak
Graydon, cyclist extraordinaire www.silkroadride.blogspot.com
Urdin & Izaro, may our paths cross in Iran! www.1000milla.com
Hayk, our host in Yerevan
Stuart, thanks for the laughs and much needed conversation with someone other than ourselves!
Richard and Arsun, may the beers remain cold and Anna's cooking tiptop
Bob & Pooyan, a fortunate roadside meeting!
Ahmad & Mahtun, we wish our visa limitations hadn't thwarted our time together!
Ali and our Isfahan family
And more people to meet!