The video Lindsey and I made about our bike trip in Eastern Europe in 2012 just passed 15,000 views.
The video, “10 Tips for Biking Eastern Europe,” has nothing to do with climate change, but it has a lot to do with the joy of bike touring. Watch it below:
Drawing on about two hours of footage from our bike trip in Eastern Europe, we made this six minute video offering “Ten Tips” for biking in Eastern Europe. We made it to submit to the Filmed by Bike film festival.
This is the first bike trip where I took video footage throughout with the intent of making such a movie. Once I accumulated all the footage, I wasn’t sure what type of movie to put together. It wasn’t very easy to talk about climate with the videos we had, so I decided to do a non-climate movie. I tried an earlier version of the film where I shared more about the history of Bosnia, which Lindsey and I spent a long time trying to understand. Ultimately, though, we just decided to just go with a more general film about bike touring in the region.
A special thanks to Peter Mulvey and Sean Staples for letting us use their music!
Here are our photos from biking Montenegro and Croatia. A description of the route is in the previous post.
Montenegro:
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Croatia (actually, our second album of Croatia):
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We spent a full week in Bosnia and Herzegovena. We were lucky to find local cyclists who showed us good, car-free routes across the small nation. This riding was amazing, though difficult. With due respect to the other six countries we biked in, Bosnia was our favorite of this trip.
The photos below show these mountain roads, as well as some of the destroyed villages from the war, images from Sarajevo, and many of the Bosnians who helped us on our journey (Thank you!). Cick “next” to see the rest:
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We spent 1.5 hours and 13 kilometers in Serbia. Here are our copious photos from this stretch.
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We then spent one night and about one full day crossing the northeast corner of Croatia. Below are our photos. Route and ride description are in the previous post.
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Below are photos from three and a half days in Poland. In another post, I’ll add impressions from visiting Aushchwitz, walking around Krakow, and talking to our hosts about history and climate change. It is a lot to process.
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