Balkan - Fall 2016 45 Days - 2110km
Part 6 - Macedonia, Bulgaria & Greece
Now we are in Macedonia
Hello from Skopje
We just looked around in the city
Now we are in a hostel
Found a cheap one
10€ per night for both uf us In one bed
Exactly, one bed and this it is
We'll sort our stuff now
And then we go out in the city again
We are in Skpoje
And we are fascinated
Unbelievable amount auf statues, sculptures...
...magnificently things
Art and music...
Unbelievable nice and diverse
Get here if you have the chance!
We just went back to the hostel
We met some cyclists on...
Well on a big square
And we asked what's going on
And there is a Critical mass now!
So thats a group of cyclists
In this case about 50 people
Who make a cycling tour through the city
To rise awareness
That cylists are part of the traffic
This happens in many cities, worldwide!
Also in Germany. In Hamburg we did join them too!
And now by coincidence
We'll join them in Skopje
We pack some stuff and grab our bikes now
And then we join the Critical mass in Skopje
!@#$%^&*
That"s !@#$%^&*(
Good morning from Kumanovo
We just left our Warmshowers host
We had a great evening
Now we go to Kriva... Kriva Polanka!
Almost at the border to Bulgaria
We have to scratch the ice off
Morning
Today was the first night in the tent for a longer time
It was quite cold
About -3 or -4 °C
Some things freezed
We prepared a bag with things that shouldn't freeze
Medicine
What else? The waterfilter
And yeah, medicine and the waterfilter
But also other things freezed
The wet wipes, the sponge
And the water a bit, but it's okay
Now we pack our stuff
It's the last day in macedonia
It was very nice
Even though it was a short stay
4 days? Yes
4 days
We had a great time in Skopje
The capital city - Very interesting city!
Yesterday in Kumanovo
We had a great evening with our warmshowers hosts
And their daughter
So now we move on to the border of Bulgaria
In the next city we'll do some grocery shopping
Spend the last money we have
Then to the border and to Bulgaria!
We are in Bulgaria!
So in Macedonia
The last km were uphill
The border is on a mountain on about 1100m
Now we have a nice downhill ride to the next city
What's the name again?
Kjustendil
There we have a couchsurfing host
There we go now, it's about 20km
Good morning
We are at our couchsurfing host
Vladimir
We got here because another couchsurfer took us here
Because at his place was no space for us
Because he is renovating. So this is a friend of him
We had a great evening with him. We had some shots...!
We are still drunk
But we also had a great talk!
He also did a worldbicycletour!
For 5 years and in 64 countries!
More or less exactly what we've planned!
That was awesome!
He told us great stories
Of his adventures and showed us his pictures
Super cool!
Now we'll have breakfast
Pack our stuff
And move on
So we woke up
With an amazing view
I wanna show you
This...
Is the highest Mountain in Bulgaria
2900m
Thats our view!
Back on the road
Pretty chilly!
Just behind Dubniza. Here we'll camp!
Beautiful
With a mountain view
Over there...
Here! That must be the Musala
Highest Mountain in Bulgaria with 2900m
The bikes look good
Where do you put the bikes?
Just choose where you want
Good! Yes, thanks!
Good evening!
We are in the summerhouse of Vladislav! Vladislav?
Yes, something like that
This is our second invitation for an overnight stay
Super cool
Olga wanted some water from him
And then he invited us!
He is just building this house!
A nice wooden house
He couldn't believe that we are travelling by bike
So he came out to see us and the bikes
Now we had a quick talk on russian
He speaks some russian
He offered us vodka, cola and cigarettes
And here is a shower
An oven
A fridge with beer and food
Tomatoes, Potatoes
He is outdoors now, meeting some friends
And he will be back later
Then i assume we'll chat and have some vodka!
Very friendly, very cool!
We're happy we don't have to sleep outdoors in the cold Exactly
Morning, we're back on our way
We had a great evening with Stanislav
We got invited to have dinner with him and his friends
It was St. Nicholas' Day
There they traditionally have fish
We said we don't eat fish and they said come with us and have potatoes!
That's what we did!
It was great, a funny evening!
Today he prepared us a lovely breakfast
Very nice. A very friendly person
He gave me working gloves
Which i can put over my normal gloves
Because it's so cold now and he was worried about us
I have my own creation!
Socks and a plastic bag over my gloves
Works very good
Now we had a flat tire at Olgas backwheel
But we could fix it quite fast
Meanwhile we know how to do it
Now 10km more, and there should be a hot spring
We wanna take a bath there!
Is it good?
That was awesome!
Now we move on
Good evening, we are in Plovdiv now
We just were at our couchsurfing host
And went with him and a friend in the city
They showed us around
Now we walk through the oldtown
Beautiful, we'll look around
At 7 P.M we'll meet again
Thats in 2 hours
Go back to his home
And have dinner together
Morning, back on the road
We are at the Billa
Did some grocery shopping
Now we move on and leave the city
To the east, to Greece!
Hi
Made 54km today
We found a great campingspot
Near the entrance
To this big field
Somewhere here
We'll pitch up the tent
We have a nice view
In the remoteness
Awesome weather today
Around 20°C
So, I'm in shorts!
Only a thin pullover
Olga also only a pullover
Cool day!
Tomorrow and the day after should be the same!
Morning!
Morning!
Our last day in Bulgaria starts
I think it's about 30, or?
28 28km to the border!
Bulgaria was great, i think we were 6 days here, or?
6 days it was amazing
Weather was also good. Some chilly days
But we had good equipment
The people were very friendly
We got invited by Stanislav to sleep in his house
That was a cool evening
Two times couchsurfing was also nice
Wolodia
Who also cycled around the world
And at Krum in Plovdiv
Very cool
It was a great time in Bulgaria We enjoyed it
Now to Greece!
See you!
We are in Greece!
We can try
Good evening from Greece!
Done for today, it was quite a funny day
First we met a funny group of cyclists from Turkey
Then we cycled through the river
We almost got wet
And itˋs incredible
How fast the landscapes change
Here is now so much cotton
And it's everywhere, looks nice!
Now we have here a great campingspot
Sun is already set
We are in the wilderness
Looks good, here we'll pitch up the tent
Morning
We just had breakfast and packed some stuff
But we chill a bit now
Because it's raining
So we said...
We make an easy day
Because we plan to stay a bit longer...
...in Greece. Two more days.
And it's only 70km to the border
So we can relax and hope that the rain will stop
Next town is in 10km and we want to go there
Good evening
We found our todays campingspot
Somewhere here
Olga just asked at a house for water
And then we got invited for a coffee
She was from Armenia and he was a greek
And they both spoke russian
That was nice and Olga could chat with them
Very nice, coffee and fruits
We hoped a bit that they will invite us for the night
It's our last night in Greece
Tomorrow we are in Turkey
Also a short stay here
But it was great and we meet nice people
Yesterday we got invited in a café
Had a nice talk
Today again invited for coffee
Very nice!
But it's pretty chilly here
In summertime it's maybe even better here
Just as cold as the winter 1991
Righ thats what the guy just said. It's a very cold winter!
Also Turkey should be cold!
We'll see! We pitch up our tent now
Go to sleep and cuddlle us together
Tomorrow it's about 10km to the border
Then we go to Turkey!
It's completly frozen!
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