Summary: 565km along the coast to get back to Antalya from Adana. Twisties oooo yeahh!This entry covers the last two days and it is fairly simple. As I mentioned at the start, my riding in Thailand and Japan taught me that it's always fun to ride along the coast. This was confirmed in Turkey - there was a lot of fun to be had riding corner to corner through small seaside towns. Nothing stood out particularly except the immense greenhouses they have built. Th...

The first day took me past a couple of large beautiful lakes and had some excellent twisties through some mountains on the way to the first lake. For the most part I had the roads to myself, especially in the mountains, which made it feel like I had a 400km long race track all to myself. Well, I didn't race per se, I had an adventure touring bike after all. But it did feel like a playground. Lake Egirdir, the first lake, I passed with it to my left, or its ea...

I have had the privilege of travelling to 9 countries since starting my job in Kuwait. I'll be going to Turkey today, my last one for this first year. Following is a poem for each one, which I wrote in a bout of inspiration on the Balcony Walk, near Jebel Shams in Oman. The Turkey poem is in the pictures :-) BahrainBahrain for a visa run. A fresh faceA new placeDidn't know The contractDidn't know the particularCrossings of culturesDidn't know h...

TL;DR:Google Maps route, here are all the photos in Google+ and here are the photospheres.PreliminariesBike rentalWhilst I have recently bought a bike I haven't got the paperwork (carnet de passage etc) in order for an international trip, so I rented a bike from Trust in Antalya. The bike was the cheapest I could find but was still a 6 month old Yamaha Tenere 660, an excellent adventure touring bike for the trip I had planned. The guys were really friendly...

One fun thing to do in Kuwait is 4x4ing. Here is a video of the latest trip. There is a bit of terrain north of the city an hour or so called 'Mutla Ridge'. It is about 70m above sea level(!) but still offers some fun driving up and down the little tracks about the place. There is a lot of fun you can have at the foot of the ridge just driving in the sand and fanging up the slopes to see how far you can get before it digs in. Another thing you can do is d...