...at the end of this month, starting from Simferopol (Crimea-UA), we will start our journey "from Yalta to Budapest through the heart of Balkans” crossing Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and, of course, Hungary.
It will be a little more than 3000 km through a territory characterized by a significant fragmentation in history, nationalities, languages, cultures and religions.
A journey, and the occasion at the same time, to see and know a part of Europe often veiled by too a general and unfounded series of prejudices.
Here below a rough track of the itinerary that we’ll follow.

link to the map

I changed the map to a link because of the possibility of an unknown source. (Rennrädle-Moderator)

Thanks in advance to anyone who will feel to participate giving suggestions on places to visit and things to do.
Corrado

It's almost time to go, from now on the trip will continue here:
BALKANS 2012

thanks in advance to anybody who will feel to participate.

Corrado
(Milano-Italy)

Interesting tour! I travelled most part of your project, last year the Krym coming from Georgia, in 2009 the Danube from Budapest to Tulcea and the Black Sea. The Danube is phantastic landscape and friendly people. I would recommend to choose the southern side of the river from Tulcea (with a visit of Galati on the northern side) and thus visit the whole Bulgarian side and the Serbian side up to Ram (Serbia). There are more hills, but its worth the effort!
Have a good trip!
Paarios (Switzerland)

you may take a look on some pictures
Danube: https://picasaweb.google.com/100936285236581376857/Donau2009#
Krim:https://picasaweb.google.com/100936285236581376857/2011SchwarzesMeer3UkraineKrim#

From Yalta to Budapest ... here the first four days

9 days, 900 km ... arrived today to the Odessa "oblast"!!

..an old dream finally turned into "reality": my bikenight in Odessa!!

After 14 days and 1300 km, Ukraine's at the back and now comes up the Balkan part of the trip.
So far, the border crossing of the "Moldova strip" ...was just a nice walk.
Some pictures and a short narrative here:
here the blog

Arrived in Constanța (Romania).






Here below some additional pictures and notes:
http://balkans2012.blogspot.it/

Hi ConRad!
I congratulate you and your friends on your journey!
Your photos are very interesting!
I wish you succes and good luck!

Getting in and out of the infernal and monumental Belgrad...and now direction Budapest!
here more pictures

Today, with the arrival to Budapest, the trip “from Yalta to Budapest through the heart of Balkans” is actually finished.
I do apologize whether in all this time my updates might have been appeared sometimes inappropriate, unnecessary or whatsoever in violation of this forum guidelines.
Tomorrow the ”packing” and after tomorrow the flight back to Milano.