A Fast Bike to Byzantium
The Petrolhead Travelogues, Book 1
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Andy C Wareing
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Andy C Wareing
About this listen
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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- emma swift
- 19-08-24
all of it
my first ever audio book and genuinely loved it, I actually felt like I was along for the ride lots of history about times that will never exist again throughly enjoyed it and have just down loaded the next book 😀
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-06-24
enjoyable account
I've read other reviews that describe this book as mundane, but it's far from that. it's a tale of a journey that could only have happened at a particular time and a particular circumstance, yes it's witnessing the every day events of what that was like, but that is the very charm of the story. I'm a couple of years younger than the narrator and I feel the time he describes. it's a world that has changed and an everyday adventure that perhaps isn't possible now and all the more entertaining to listen to
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- Frank Williams
- 07-08-24
fast paced travel like you are there in his helmet
I really enjoyed this book, and I finished it in record time as I just could not stop listening to it! the descriptions, particularly of Budapest and instanbul made me want to eat the food, see the sights and feel the heat... as a rider and traveller, Andy gets the descriptions just right.. what's it's like to ride and be tired, cold and miserable, and he perfectly describes how majestic it is to ride a bike to somewhere new on a hot new day. loved it and fully recommend to any traveler, biker or not.
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- Mick Brown
- 27-08-24
friendship
very poignant, bittersweet, resonated greatly with me a lifelong biker and dreamer...being of similar age it all makes perfect sense!
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- Marshall
- 04-10-24
A great listen
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 👍
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- Nick
- 02-10-24
A chilled listen, well read
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.
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- Richie
- 01-09-24
lost me within an hour
Too pretentious. Too many similies by far. I hope we would hear mo about riding.
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- Anonymous User
- 15-06-24
don't bother
it's vacuous. Description of events that are mundane, things that happened with no importance attached to them. But at the same time trying to make them part of the story.
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- David Boyd
- 18-10-24
Painful narration
Worst narration I have heard, terrible delivery was excruciating. Every. Sentence is. Broken into. Multiple non-sentences that. Are endlessly halting. And. Jolting. Complete absence of reading fluency: I won’t listen to more. Generally I like books to be read by the author. It’s a bad, spoiling mistake in this case.
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