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The country (that’s officially not a country) where it’s near impossible to camp or pay for things. The Kurds are the largest ethnic minority without their own country – they live in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The KRG, Kurdistan-Regional-Government in Northern Iraq however, is basically a country. An Autonomous region with its own government, military and visa policy. When I cycled across this region last year, I had to pay for an eVisa, but it was recently announced that

In order to avoid Istanbul’s traffic craze, I decided to take a ferry from Greece to Turkey, from Thessaloniki to Kusadasi to be exact. I wasn’t off to a great start: The ferry was delayed a few hours and arrived late in the evening, and after going through immigration I realised I had forgotten my bicycle helmet on the ferry, and wasn’t allowed to go back to retrieve it. Disappointed, I withdrew some from the inflation suffering Turkish Lira with the hope to find a replaceme