England to Turkey by bike in 1999

Cycle Touring in Eastern Europe at the turn of the century: England to Turkey in 1999.

Join our travellers Paul and Tom in 1999 as they travel through Eastern Europe on a bike at the turn of the century over a swift hour-long film taking in 15 countries and many turns of the pedal.
This film documents the cycle touring trip from Norway to Turkey undertaken by Paul and Tom at the turn of the century, 1999. Entitled “We are of the Time and the Time is of Us” after a Vasil Levski quote on a monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, this film tells the story of a four month cycle tour trip across Scandinavia and down through Eastern Europe.
Leaving England in May 1999, the cycle tour route headed to Bergen, Norway and took in the following cities: Oslo, Norway; Copenhagen, Denmark, Berlin, Germany; Wroclaw, Poland; Prague and Brno, Czech Republic; Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna, Austria; Ljubljana, Slovenia; Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska); Budapest, Hungary; Oradea, Turda and Bucharest of Romania; Sofia, Bulgaria and Istanbul, Turkey.
Cycling touring on low cost bikes, our travellers carried a tent between them on their cycles and camp at campsites throughout Eastern Europe for the majority of nights. Taking a small Sony DV video camera and shooting PAL resolution, moving ‘cycle cam’ shots were taken by hand and our travellers became comfortable with shooting ‘pieces to camera’ to tell us about the story of their journey.
The cycle touring journey included ferry journeys; England (South Sheilds) to Norway (Bergen) across the North Sea) and from Denmark (Gedser) to Germany (Rostock); an eclipse of the sun on the line of totality (Mürzzuschlag, Austria), TV towers (Berlin, Germany) and Ferris Wheels (Vienna, Austrlia); and an unfortunate incident of riding on a motorway and getting a fine for the traffic offence (Bulgaria)

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