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A Fast Bike to Byzantium

The Petrolhead Travelogues, Book 1

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A Fast Bike to Byzantium

By: Andy C Wareing
Narrated by: Andy C Wareing
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The year is 1986. The destination is Istanbul. No smartphones, no GPS, no Google maps, and not an ounce of common sense.

Dead horses, armed border guards and furious Slavs stand in the way. Join Andy on his battered old Suzuki GS1000G as we cross Europe, and ride together through the Iron Curtain to reach the very edge of Asia. Filled with adventure and humor, poignant and accidentally informative, this true-life story tells of travel in an era long gone, when we read paper maps like pirates on the high seas, and friends were made and lost along roads less traveled.

Can Andy prevail and avoid a Hungarian prison cell and a Yugoslavian beating, to finally reach the sounds and scents of the ancient heart of the Byzantium empire.

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©2023, 2024 Andy C Wareing (P)2024 Andy C Wareing Travel Writing & Commentary Witty Pirate

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I bought this based almost entirely off the strength of the picture on the cover, and was not disappointed by the book as a whole, I have since read the rest of the series too 👍

A great listen

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excellent entertaining story that will make you yern for a motorcycle trip and a ferry ticket

biker must listen

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very poignant, bittersweet, resonated greatly with me a lifelong biker and dreamer...being of similar age it all makes perfect sense!

friendship

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A decent listen - quite chilled compared to some of the ‘action packed’ reviews I’d seen. Captures the essence of Eastern Europe at the time. A weird meander into the Zeebrugge disaster at the start (which happened well after the ride and, spoiler alert, was completely unconnected with the rider or the trip) was ten minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Also, the pedant in me couldn’t quite get over the liberal but consistently incorrect use of “literally” by the author! Those foibles aside, it was an enjoyable listen to fill a short journey.

A chilled listen, well read

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Thank you for such a good read. This being an honest account of a trip across Europe and the Red Curtain.

Honest Motorcycle Touring

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