EFE Hotel Edirne
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Day 28, Aug 9 (167km) - New Country New Outlook
Yesterday was a horrible day as far as motivation. Today my mood was not much better but better and that is the main thing. I was able to start before 8:00 and get my ass on the bike and start the journey despite doubts and near complete exhaustion.
It was a bit cooler today - 34 degrees - and I had to get over two big mountains. Good thing is the biggest was first and I cleared it in the mourning before it was too hot. Right at the beginning ...
10km yeah right
Ok, so getting to the border didn't quite go to plan, it turned out that although close to the border we were 40km from the nearest crossing. This was only discovered after cycling into a back of beyond village where, leaving Helen with the bikes, I was led into a semi-derelict office building and sat on a very 1970's style sofa by an odd local lady who had a phone conversation with an unknown person and then tried ...
On to Turkey.
Sunday
We were up, packed, and had our bags outside our door by 6:30 AM. Then we went down to the breakfast room to eat. There was a large buffet spread out for all the hotel guests. The choices weren't all that we had become accustom to but I managed to find enough to fill me up. J It was well prepared and pleasantly presented.
After breakfast we identified our luggage so it could be loaded on our bus and then we took off in ...
Talkin' Turkey
... going to “booth 94”, which of course was at the far end of the booths… nowhere near booth 92.
So, we locked up the van and sauntered over to booth 94. There was a line-up of 3 or 4 truckers (on foot) ahead of us there, so we waited, and waited and waited. Each trucker took 10 to 15 minutes, and the agent would occasionally walk away from the booth for a lengthy chat with some other agents… it was well over 30 minutes by the time we got to ...
AB'ye adımımızı attık.
... böyle yaratıcı şeyler işte. İçime dert oldu, arayışlara girdim, hedefimi bulmuştum: yunan kondüktör! İşin bitince bize 3-5 bişey öğretsene dedim, olur dedi. Thanasis Krystallinos ile de böyle tanıştık. Ülkeler, kültürler üzerine yaptığımız 2 saatlik muhabbetler, Yunanca 101 kalimera, goia sou, ime apo tukia derken 00:00 sularında Selanik'e vardık. Efharisto.
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