London to Auckland

Today we slept in until 8am and the called the Kozlodui Police to see what was going down. Much to our amazement we were informed that the Seadoos had been found and that we should get our arses and anything attached to them across to Kozlodui by the quickest means possible. This 70km road trip [...]

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In my experience Saturday the 14th is the day you have to really watch out for because this is the day when you deal with all the stuffups from your decisions of the day before. And today was no different. We rose at six again and looked out the window at the harbor and immediately [...]

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We finally got out of Belgrade at 5pm last night and were pleased to be going again. Clearing customs into Romania at Moldova Deche was interesting. It was like going back 50 years in time with the paperwork destroying another tree. After that we zoomed down river for a bit more before finding a small [...]

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We expected to leave early this morning but are still fixing the problems with one of the seadoos.This is totally frustrating but it’s better that we go completely servicable than have other problems down the track where the facilities are not available for servicing. We still hope to leave in time to clear customs out [...]

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last night Ivan discovered a major problem with one of the drive shafts and jet pumps so we are stuck here for another day waiting for parts. That’s not such a bad things as Belgrade is a pretty pleasant town and we have great support from everyone from the Radulovic Group at the ‘White yachting [...]

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Two live TV appearances in the studio for Ivan and I, 295 emails to deal with, the blog, photos, dirty washing and maintenance on the machines. Doesn’t feel like a day off. I’m tired. I felt better when I was riding. Tomorrow it’s to Romania and eventually to the Black Sea.

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A stunning day of riding.Perfect weather, flat calm river and great scenery. Covered the 310km to Vucovar in Croatia in 4 hours and were met on the river bank there by Ivan’s family for a relaxing lunch. Then it was a max speed run to Belgrade. 170km in 1hr and 50 min. We had a [...]

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We left Melk at 6.15am in attempt to make a 9am appointment in Vienna with the Austrian Children’s Cancer org. In spite of our best efforts the locks slaughtered us again and we were half an hour late. Beautiful Vienna put on some sun for us and we had a good stop for an hour [...]

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We reached the Danube River after a couple of hours and it was in flood. It was a massive body of brown boiling water moving at about 15kph and with a noticeable slope.The whole river was full of huge logs and debris and we were forever dodging stuff. The PWCs were relishing going down hill. [...]

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More locks, more rain and really cold. Playing a game of cat and mouse with the German water police. They are nice guys and I think we are winning but they are close behind. Today they sent in one of their helicopters to beat us up at 50ft and we got sprung speeding again. Reached [...]

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