Turkish GS'ers in Greece (2007)

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Last year we traveled around greece, it was a very nice experience and a good holiday for us.

our route

 

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at the turkish-greek border, we are so happy

on the bridge between turkey and greece, greece is just at the opposite

when stopped at a gas station we met a guy, and talked a little, we had a friend in common,everyone was so surprised, then we traveled together untill Kavala and took the same hotel and talked, he was a kind and an helpfull greek man named: theodoros.

 

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the first day ended in kavala, in the morning we are moving to thessalniki and we'll meet Isaak

small break at the lake district

here is my beemer brother Isaak and my wife Elif at a cafe in ARISTO square..very popular and nice area

 

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Isaak, Panos, Andrea and we get to a baechside place to have some meal,
it was totally great i miss all

our bikes,

on the road back to city center

 

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In the evening we'll meet the other Beemers of Hellas Thessaloniki at their point, Bara Cafe.
we liked them all,
it will be hard to leave them there the next day

 

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on our third day, we searched somewhere which is very important to Turkish people

Turkish Leader who won our liberation war; M.Kemal ATATURK's house in Thessaloniki, still being kept as a musesum.

 

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a coffee break at the castle of thessalniki with a great view,

because of the hell hot we spend the whole day with beemers and go on our route in the evening time...

after a couple hours riding we decide to stop and sleep at Volos, a nice seaside town, there are many motorcycles everwhere, we cant see that much the whole year in our town.

 

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4th day...

we change our route a little and take the ferry to Evotia island

the island is perfect for us, with a high quality road and many curves...

a small village at north of the island, Pefki; very nice sea, we were burning it was very good, and great meal again

 

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the curves of this big island made me tired but we couldn't find a place for the night, and go on riding.

at night time we arrived to Khalkis (mainland) and searched for a hotel, the town was very colourful, active

every place we arrive , we like it more, everywhere has an interesting speciality...

the most interesting thing in Khalkis, the bridge

the water is changing direction every 6 hours and cant be explained they said

 

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after having our breakfast we start the engine to Atina, we'll meet Nikos, our another Beemer friend for a cup of coffee (Frape very cool )

and go on to the highlight of our travel, soon...

 

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Nikos arrives

with his secondary bike for short distances...

we had a great meal again,with sea products, midye(muscle) kalamari rice..mixed..

 

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now on board to SAN TORINI

 

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first of all we arrange our room, a very nice,lovely and affordable place,
in fact the cheapest room we found was at the most expensive area of the country
30eu/2prs/breakfast

we are a little tired so we just go to Thira center for a few drinks and get back,
tomorrow morning we have to be dynamic for The Sunset Tour, where we will walk on the old volcano and swim at different bays...

enjoying pinacolada

look at her, very desperate, why? i really dont remember, may be my dear is so tired or what?

 

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Some view from SANTORINI,charming,attractive..ha?

 

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a man at his shops door invited us inside when he saw my tank bag, firts i couldnt understand..

he also owed a 1200gs and recognised the tank bag, he ordered us some cool drinks and we talked..

he had a nice model i could never find to buy..

now lets go on the sunset tour

this is our boat

walk on the volcano, hot and smoky

and the special moment of the day

 

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Tonight is Elif's birthday, we make a little celebration and live the enjoyable night life of the island...

 

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the next and almost our last day we leave the island, from Pireas we'll take the boat to Chios island which is the last stop for us before Turkey...

its a long and boring boat trip because we will arrive to Chios at 03.00am and have to wait fot the boat to Cesme-Izmır (TR) for about 6hours..
but nothing to do..

spending time in pireas, most of the shop are closed for siesta

 

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at chios after sleeping for a while on benches we get on our boat to Cesme (TR)

and in an hour time we see our country, some happy to arrive, some sad-trip ends

Cesme Port

 

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we have 350km left to home, and we are very excited to hug our kids in the evening...


THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AT READING,HOPE YOU LIKED IT
SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH

things i loved:
meals
roads
smoking everywhere
kindness of greek people
the respect to the riders on the highways

things i hated
the burning hot (i'll never travel in july again)
expense of the ferries (total 550euros just for the ferries)
siesta

(next: Italy report...on september)

 

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Excellent report, thanks. I think the small model of the 1200 is available from BMW dealers here in the UK