Baghdad: Closer Than My Breaking Point (IRAQ)
Cycling the world – Asia: episode 20
I wake up in Mosul after a night at the Travellers Cafe and try to leave the city following the Tigris valley. Police say no and send me back onto the desert highway towards Baghdad. Frustration kicks in early. I cross the desert and end up camping on the roof of a petrol station locked in for the night. In the morning I wait for the staff to wake up before I can escape. Near Tikrit I try again to follow the river and get hosted by a local family but checkpoints turn intense and even the military stops me. A phone call from my host saves the day. After a long night with a kind family I push on towards Baghdad. It turns into the hardest day I have had in Iraq with constant misunderstandings cultural friction and police trying to take my action cam. Drained I finally reach Baghdad and stop for a day sharing a hotel room with Kyle an American backpacker I met earlier in Kurdistan.
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😂 ma porca troia 😂 non basta pedalare con temperature allucinanti, posti di blocco continui, devi trovare anche chi ti vuole dormire vicino o chi rompe per far piazzare una maledetta tenda 😂😂 quanto è dura…ma anche comica! 💪 Grande Davide
Your monologue with that guy at the end really made me laugh, but also I could completely understand your frustration, it is easy to lose your mind.
The patience of a Saint.
I'd say more people have climbed Everest than probably cycled to Baghdad. Congratulations Davide.
Thank you for showing the great hospitality of the people of Iraq and the world, greetings from France!
sei semplicemente un eroe! 🤩
Rant was the best part! 🙂
Operatori "vestiti" da SWAT non esprimono necessariamente capacita´ tecniche e tattiche tipiche di una unita´ SWAT… altrimenti non saterebbero in strada annoiati come i vigli urbani. 😏
Haha quality episode Davide, to watch anyway. Funny rant😂
you should be more respectful when addressing their hospitality on youtube ,one of those guys must be watching your videos and it wouldn't sound nice to hear that rant after all the good things they did for you
Congratulations on getting to Baghad, Davide. You have balls of steel! Just even going there and dealing with the police takes cojones
Oh my!! What a conundrum! Yes you can, no you can't, yes you can, no you can't… That was quite an ordeal and an exercice in patience, enough I might add to lose it. And those checkpoints! Safe travels Davide and smoother crossings. 🙂
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Comparing the roads In Iraq and the smooth asphalt without potholes it seems that it is in Italy that we had a war!😮
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