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Turkey

19/10/2010

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Day 111
Location: Erzurum
Miles on the clock: 6,985

After a couple of days of nightclubs, restaurants and repose in the affluent seaside town of Varna, I felt a little cumbersome as I climbed inland and up into Bulgaria’s hills.

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Poland to Bulgaria

21/9/2010

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Day 82
Location: Varna, Bulgaria
Miles on the clock: 5835

I felt ashamed after posting the dejected and pathetic rant about bad weather and Polish roads in my last blog. As if to compound this feeling, a day later the rain finally relented and I reached better roads with less murderous lorry drivers. 


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Finland and the Baltic

1/9/2010

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Day 63
Location: Lublin, Poland
Miles on the clock: 4820

During my last couple of days in Arctic Norway I noticed the leaves beginning to yellow and the temperature dropping close to freezing each night. Autumn comes early in the Arctic and I realised I would be chasing the tail of summer as it receeded south. Having befriended a generous bunch who work in the Alta cinema (and provided me with all the free popcorn, drinks and films I could have dreamt of) I was sad to leave the city.

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