London to Auckland

We had planned to leave Port Tomis at 6am to avoid the wind and after a minor mechanical, got going at 630am but the wind was up already. The wind was howling from the north west and the sea was getting rougher all the time so we curved in towards the Bulgarian coast to avoid [...]

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There are some who say that the Black Sea is always rough. I for one can not argue this point. We had a late start out of Tulcea due to the fuel pump opening time and the need to change dollars to kashushniks at the local money changer to pay for the fuel. By the [...]

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Fuel is turning out to be our biggest nightmare. It is so difficult to find it and it’s very expensive. We can use 750L in a day. Here in Turkey it is 2 Euros per liter. That’s 4 NZ dollars. You do the math. Even if we did have the money to pay for it, [...]

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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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