Month: November 2016

November 28, 2016 Dekker 1 comment

Just finished our buffet dinner in the Padang Lords Eco Inn in the beautiful city of Saputara (also known for its snakes…) and we were both shocked when we realized that  already 6(!) days are passed since our last post. Time flies, especially in India. Today we had a very nice track from Vyara to…

November 21, 2016 Dekker 4 comments

Before we share our thoughts and first experiences of India, we will briefly talk you through our last 48 hours in Oman. We were invited by friends of our family who live on the outskirts of Muscat. Hamdam, Gunni and their daughter Sara provided us with great hospitality and conversation. The second day we took…

November 17, 2016 Dekker 2 comments

After picking up our bikes in Abu Dhabi last Friday, we hit the road to Al Ain. This is a nice city at the border to Oman. Due to the very short night before, we decided to award ourselves with a hotel and really found one in the middle of the desert. This was the…

November 15, 2016 Dekker 4 comments

After our Westin experience, it was time to pick up our family at the airport of Abu Dhabi. The cause of this short break in the Emirates was on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Ronald’s father (Maurice’s grandfather…). As a present of his children, Theo was invited to visit the “Dekkers on trek”…

November 11, 2016 Dekker 1 comment

Since our last post a week ago, two major events came on our way kept us from posting… The first one was the kind invitation of the Westin hotel to host us for two nights and the second one will be commented on in our next post… It took us one day to Dubai again…

November 3, 2016 Dekker 8 comments

This morning we’re having a coffee and breakfast at Starbucks with proper wifi: Time to write a post again and watch the fishermen at work. As we have mentioned in our previous post we headed towards the northern part of the Emirates and cross the border to Oman. Once we escaped the 8-lane roads, packed…