Event
Montreal Field Naturalists' Club indoor meeting: Cycling from Istanbul to Samarkand -- by Victor Breedon
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 19:30to21:00
Leacock Building
855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, CA
Presentation by Victor Breedon about his cycling trip from Istanbul to Samarkand in聽the late summer of聽2008. Along with 40 other cyclists, Victor pedalled along the original silk road, skirted the Black Sea, and climbed into the Caucasus Mountains, passing through Tbilisi, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Baku on the Caspian Sea. About 4000 kilmetres later they arrived聽in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Free. Everyone welcome.