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Albania express......2012
Hello eveybody!
Sometimes you think that you have seen everything.....
Sometimes you think that you have "done" everything...
But you never know how a trip with a motorcycle is going to end....
So,i answer positive in my friend Christos for a weekend in Albania...
In the country of poorness,drugs,and AK-47s......
BUT is Albania like this???
Let see the weekend trip in a neighbor country that have pass a lot of political situations,and i think it still does...!
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Albania express...2012.
5 friends 5 motorcycles with a lot fun for a weekend full of new pictures for food in our minds because is hunger for kilometres(or miles ).....
Lets see who they are....
Tattoopanther
Nikos-X
TASOS GS
geokall
And Zandesiro (me)spooky face...
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Albania express...2012.
After a very good sleep (i'm talking for me,the other are in a shock because of my snoring ) we re ready for a new day!
Albanian fashion in the bed...:evil
Breakfast bread-butter-marmelade and some pork meat from me....OK!!!
Morning wash for the cow!
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Albania express...2012.
2nd day Pogradec-Gezavesh-(?????)-Vlore
We found a castle near by the city of Tirana (the capital of Albania).
-Do you think worth a visit??
-Yes,lets go!!
-Whats the road contition??
-We 'll take a secondary asphalt road with a lot of curves and no traffic(as the main road).
-Awesome,lets go...!!
Have some gas....
You can wash your bike in the road side we seen those hoses allday long!
Everything was good so far.
Somewere it starts our day-adventure without programming it.....We thought that they make new asphalt road and in a few kilometres (miles) the gravel road stops.....
I DONT THINK SO...!
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Where are we going???
We make stop to regroup...
Thanks god i was in TKC!
Somewere here the road disapears!!!
And suddenly road construction machines starts to appear on our way:huh....
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And we found a very hard road that make the 3 of 5 to fall off the bikes with 0 kms speed....See the pics...:evil
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Because of the contition of the road and the heavy motorcycles we start to tired a lot....Don't forget that we start for an asphalt ride and NOT for gravel-construction-roads.....
Where the H...LL is tarmacccccccccc....?????
NOWHERE!!!!
When we arrive in the top of a mountain we ask a bulldozer operator....
-For tarmac how much kilometers and where????
-The most close is in Fushe-Bulqize.
-Kilometers?
-30 or 40 i think….
-I was disappointed deep.....We have already 4 hours for 40-50 kilometers done,in this road contition we need 3 more hours to the tarmac....
Full disappointment…..
Deep breath …
-"OK lets go, who knows maybe we think this in the future and we laugh"!!!.
So we start downhill...
For good luck those 30 kilometers was nice gravelroad and our speed goes to 50km/h
The tarmac appears soon (after 80 kms) and i want to stop to KISS the surface but in our team we have 2 bmw r1200gs that is aircooled so i start to get the superb speed of 80-90 km/h...
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We regrouping in a cafe....
An Albanian friend knew Greek language and he don't let us pay nothing.....
The gravel route that we have done there isn't on a map or google map,it was a new road..
The route was from point A to point B 5-6 hours for 85km all measured not exactly....
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The time has gone the visit in the castle that we start in the morning wasn't anymore in our program....
Think when we arrive to the castle to see 5 muddy guys in fron of you....There was no chance to get in the castle like this mess..
So we start to south for the city of Vlore for the night staying...
Tarmac!!! In a few hours we will be there...!
BUT don"t be hurry in your mind zandesiro-boy...!!!!
The tarmac was in the worst contitions that i 've ever seen in me life...!
Holes...
Tarmac breakdowns...
Huje bumps,fix the tarmac after a hole(i don't remember the word forgive me).
Dangerous driving o the albanian cars and trucks....
Max speed 80-90 km/h...:huh
Another thing that makes me very sad i s that they let their forests burn they don't have organized fire department they wait fire fighting planes from Greece or Italy to come!
Such a same....
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Albania express...2012.
Others aircontitioning their legs...
Other take a beauty sleep....
Other make yoga to keep the balance...!
Arrival late in Vlore and searching for hotel...
One more night full of pizzas and albanian s....
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Albania express...2012.
Third day....
Breakfast in our,35 euros the 3bed room, hotel.
Not the best we ever have.....2 half toothpics in my and Geokalls plate!
The seaside road from Vlore-Sarande…
Beautiful scenery...!
A beauty that only you can find in balkans.
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Albania express...2012.
From the Albanian borders-check.... to the Greek borders "you are Greek"??Yes! GO!!! (no check at all thank you guys!!)
Mad for riding...
Greece...
We take a route througth Konitsa to Nestorio in a place that every year is a river party with thousands of people came in....
There we will meet some friends and have a barbeque...
Swim in the river....
The chef on duty...
Lets eat!!
Until the night comes...
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