So Albania; if you have been following our Facebook and Instagram you would have heard or read how we raved about this country and how we spent 2 weeks in somewhere that normally takes most people only 3 days to cycle through. It was so worth it.

As with BiH, many people warned us against going to Albania because the people are not friendly, the Albanian gang is notorious as one of Europe’s most dangerous and the infrastructure...

A mini history lesson of what Yugoslavia was. It came into existence after world war 1, and it was a communist regime built up of what we know as Croatia, Bosnia i Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. Many of the people living in the communist time believed that it was a great way to live, and that communism functioned very well under their leader Tito. However, leading up to and after his death, ethnic ten...

Germany, Austria, Italy and Slovenia went pretty quickly. We did spend quite a bit of time in Germany, but not an awful lot of that actually cycling… 

In Bonn we had a very exciting time, we were there for a total of 4 days, and in that time, a lot of interesting things happened! Here are links to the Newsroom articles about our time there, it was very enjoyable and they wrote about it very well! There were 3 articles written,...

So what have we been up to? We have gone awol on our blog since around Bonn, Germany, which should be about 2 months now? Oops? …

Since then we have been quite busy just being on holiday and relaxing, very hard work ;)
To give more detail we have travelled from Bonn to Munich via the Rhein, Main, Tauber and Altmühl rivers, and crossed the Danube. We stayed in Unterschleißheim for 2 weeks with Fabian’s family and then another we...

From Paris to Bonn on four wheels

So we have been offline on our blog for a while, some due to being busy and the other due to a non-functioning article writing machine a.k.a. laptop. However, we are back on borrowed time, and a borrowed Laptop.
 

The past month and a half has, as with the rest of this trip, been incredible! We keep thinking it’s gotten the best it could, and then something even better happens. Picking up from w...

Barcelona.

A few weeks ago we were in Barcelona for the Innovate4climate conference. This conference was three days long andabout a lot of interesting things. Most importantly to do with climate finance. Innovate4climate had been on our mind even before we left as it was planned for us to be there. We left Madrid with a destination and deadline. Barcelona on the 22nd May. We left north and planned a route that would give us eno...

Inka and Fabian met Niclas Svenningsen, the Strategy and Relationship Manager at the UNFCCC Secretariat. Climate Neutral Now is the program that brings these three together. As Ambassadors for Climate Neutral Now, Inka and Fabian are setting a great example while they meet people, share their story and talk about actively making choices to go climate neutral as they bike Europe.

Inka and Fabian were featured guests of the World Banks Connect4Climate program( https://www.connect4climate.org/ ) at the Innovate4Climate Conference in Barcelona 22-24 May 2017. The conference addressed financing the changes needed to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Every aspect of human life will be transformed by the USD 23 trillion economic investments that will be required to meet our shared climate objective...

We like Spain; we really do. The good thing is that Spain gets better and better the longer we travel across the country. We crossed the Portugeuse-Spanish border at the Douro river in a small town called Barca D'alva. We then cycled to Salamanca were we stayed for a few days with Tiene, our Couchsurfing host. We then carried on to Avila, Cercedilla and the capital Madrid.

Madrid was on our minds for a while before arriving. Wh...

As mentioned in previous posts, we have visited 2 schools and a number of organisations/businesses so far talking about our trip and spreading our message, all in Madrid. We have a blog post about us from one of the high schools, Sacred Heart High School, as the school has a blog run by the students, and one of the students interviewed us – as soon as we have access to this blog post we will link it to our post.

Since Madrid we...