Author: Johan Fleischer (Page 1 of 37)

About the tour

In October 2013 Fleisch, ( the writer of this blog,)  was going to turn 50, and he thought  that  it would be a good idea to celebrate this momentous occasion with an equally momentous motorbike ride from London to Cape Town South Africa.

He challenged a few of his friends to join him for what was planned as a short 4-week ride.

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Leg 7 – September 2014 – Finland, Russia

We returned to Helsinki and collected the bikes and immediately headed for the border between Finland and Russia expecting a few problems, but the crossing went relatively smooth and after only 2 hours we were in Russia.

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Our first shock was 30km before St. Petersburg when we were faced with a traffic-jam second to none, all 5 lanes simply stood still.… Read More

Leg 6 – Mei 2014 – Denmark, Norway, Lapland, Finland Sweden

We took Hennie with us to drive Brutes on this trip, but as he is an accountant he also managed our Kitty (pool of money for paying the day-to-day expenses,) and he balanced our books to the last cent with great difficulty I might add.

Norway Big Camera 301

On this trip we had to pay-into the Kitty using 4 different currencies as we travelled through the countries and he had to keep book of who owed what, but also in which currency the debt was due and then convert it to the currency of the country we were in when the debt was finally paid back to Kitty.… Read More

Mongolian Throat Singing and Dancing

When we were in Ulan Bator we went to a show where we saw the Traditional Dancing, Singing, Traditional Dress and Instruments. I wrote in the one Blog about the aThroat Singing. It is a vibrating sound they make low down in the voice-box and is something I have never heard before.

In the 1st video it starts very low on the singers range and the video ends on the higher side.… Read More

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