Claim OwnershipSpoke Yokes: cycling around the world
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Mark and Ellie are cycling around the world. Join their adventure as they share weekly diary updates from the road. Bears, typhoons, camels drinking each other's wee, and lots of crisps; this podcast is much more than a cycling diary. The ups are hilly, the lows are swampy, but for every puncture there's a patch.
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5000km of cycling completed, with over 1,000km of Turkish Black Sea coast still to go, and Spoke Yokes are headed to Ankara to sort visas, but not before running the gauntlet of the willy fish.
A dose of Turkish delight as Mark and Ellie cross the Bosporus, and a major milestone as they enter Asia Minor. Wild dogs and cups tea abound.
Dodging massages in a thermal pool and a visit to an eerie abandoned theme park during their one week journey through Bulgaria sees Ellie and Mark reach the border with Turkey. The major milestone this week is reaching the Black Sea, which they find out is both salty and cold.
Bear-related big surprises in the Carpathian Mountains see Ellie and Mark hurriedly packing down their tent in the dark, and making a mad dash down a mountain road at dusk.
In this episode the joy of the bumpy highways of Hungary and the mountains of Romania is tempered by the disappointment of the Irish pub abroad.
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