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An empty highway with extra wide shoulder, a border town filled with cafes and 
restaurants and a road through a river with people camping on either side. This visit to Greece was a quick hop through to avoid a busier road from Bulgaria to Edirne, Turkey. We learnt no Greek and saw no sights, but our time here was as sweet as the coffees we tasted before exiting the country.
Here are some facts and figures from our short time in Greece:
- 42 km cycled (39 km from the Bulgaria border and 3 km to the Turkish border)
- 1 night free camping by the river in a old festival camping space
- 2 pork giros consumed (Greek kebabs mmmm)
- 2 early morning Greek coffees drunk
- 1 sandy river swim (plus Emma walked across the river road)
- 0 mechanical failures or breakages of any description (alright!)
- 0 words of Greek learnt
Justin will remember: Returning to a petrol station for a map of Turkey within 24 hours of having left Greece – 38km round trip.
Emma’s we’re in Greece moment: Finding a snack shop open which sells Giros. We had been thinking about this Greek speciality for the last 30 kilometres and my only authentically Greek sample didn’t disappoint!
related posts to “Greece By Numbers”
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Moment Of Food – Greece
Being in Greece for less than 24 hours as we transited from Bulgaria to Turkey we only had time to document one meal along the way. We ate lunch in the town of Kastanies which was largely deserted on a hot Sunday afternoon before we headed down the road for a cool swim in an empty music festival site next to the Ardas river. – Posted by Justin
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Bulgaria By Numbers
The north of Bulgaria was wide empty countryside and quiet back roads. As we followed the Danube east the fields became filled with endless rows of drooping sunflowers past their prime. The friendliness of the local people amazed us as every day someone gave us food and drink and we were even welcomed into homes. Bulgaria will always be special as we now have an always waiting home for us in the tiny village of Malak Izvor with Sabrina and Sabatine. – Posted by Justin
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Serbia By Numbers
We cycled into Serbia through a national park, spending our first night as guests in a tiny farmhouse just outside Mokra Gora. The hospitality of our first night was repeated many times throughout Serbia whether by people buying us coffee, campsites offering free pitches and breakfast snacks, or an international canoeing group welcoming us to their campsite. In Belgrade we learnt a lot from our great hosts Aleksander and Milica. We left Serbia after a loop around the Danube which, despite bugs and breakages we’d started to grow quite attached to. – Posted by Justin
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Italy By Numbers
We’ve always loved Italian food, and while we had some substandard focaccia and gelato in Italy, overall the cuisine lived up to our expectations (oh and the scenery was spectacular as well). We left food heaven with more insect bites than we arrived with, possibly more weight (see gelato figures below) plus fantastic memories of the roads we travelled and the people who stopped to talk to us in every small town we passed. Here are some facts and figures from our time in Italy. – Posted by Emma
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Croatia By Numbers
Arriving in Croatia to a new language, currency and climate (read very very hot) we weren’t sure what to expect. Like the rest of Europe we enjoyed some holiday time in Croatia finding small family run campgrounds, quiet beaches for swimming and many shady spots to sit out the heat of the day. – Posted by Emma
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