Saturday, August 29, 2009

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Albania

When we were in the evening in Podgorica something to treat food as a reward for the "repair", we speak two German-speaking on our mopeds .. We are just talking and we got offered an apartment for the night - for free. Since we can not say no, thank you one more time at this point.
In the morning we make ourselves then towards Albania, but after about 2 km are outside the city limits of Podgorica Hennings Moped back to the mind.
Henning moves so precisely with my scooter to a garage near where we want to try to repair it and skin for the first time NEN big nail in my rear, wonderful.
We spend most of the day before the workshop, the problem with Hennings moped can not solve, despite that, and then in the evening to make up our minds to Albania to tow, we are running out of time.
When we reach is then against the Albanian border is 23h long dark. The border crossing is done without any problems. At the border post we ask for the road conditions, we are told the first 50km would be bad, but then the roads would have approximately "German quality". In fact the first 50Km
are pretty crap, but we come in spite of road and towing vorran well. The impression of the cities of Albania is a little bizarre, we see in the first city many street dogs, and women sweep the streets with broom. At two in the clock will be noticeably cooler, and exhausted we would too, so we were on a carcass behind a gas station, right on the main road. It turns out everything that was a good decision, because the roof of the building shell protects us from the sun, and we can sleep.
dawdle on the day around us, and spend our time trying to lizards . Hunt When we want to start driving to 17h, my rear tire is flat - weird, but it was only yesterday we had changed the tube, the first was torn from the nail that is normal. So again make
the hose repair, and install the new holes in, so you can spend a few hours .. However, we have
found two diodes, and can use them in Henning in the control part, we may not have the hope that it lasts long, but we do not have to tow the time being. In the dark we reached Tirana, and when we want to withdraw cash at an ATM, gather around children directly to us and ask questions. It is unusual to be surrounded by so many people directly, However, no one is pushy or rude. In Tirana, we then eat in a restaurant and decide to take so long until we are tired.
We continue towards the coast, along the way, we also go on motorways - in Albania, no problem. At about 2am then denied the diode in the control part, fortunately directly to a gas station. So we packed our camping mats, and put us to sleep next to the highway at a gas station on the floor for.
After 3-4 hours of sleep then starts the next day, we use the last diode, and hope that holds at least as long as the first 170km!
drag 20km later we then again ..
makes us even now "Cold", at first always easy between "Yeah FINALLY continue," and "A DAMN SHIT SO WHAT DO WE DO NOW", we think we do our part to drag up and down.
In a brief stop in an Albanian village, is a slightly more rounded boy on a bicycle and stares at us enthusiastically, soon after his father comes and asks us for a coffee in his house. Unfortunately, Henning said yes to the question whether we want something to eat, so we have to eat cold, greasy noodles, mjam mjam.
make late afternoon we stop at a body shop next to the road. After resting a few hours, we want to, but .. Sure, I got a flat tire! So we deal so to patch him up it gets dark .. By a motorcyclist, we were still warned of a steep mountain that awaits us in about 5 km to our plan, he just said something like "no way".
creates the first kilometers of the mountain pass with my Simson Simson Hennings in tow, still quite good, of course, in first gear. At some point, but it is
too steep, and we have to walk beside her, that is purely first gear, throttle, and both then run beside the scooter. And shit, that's damn exhausting, with the slope. distribute as a bonus, so to speak, then come also from time to stray dogs to us, we scream, curse and honk more or less successful. Now and then there are pieces that we sit on mopeds can overcome. To 1 or 2 am we reached the summit with nassgeschwitzen clothes.
Just unpacked mattress and sleeping bag and kip just next to the mopeds cheer floor, which has already excessive survival ..
the morning we are woken by the noise of the people who spread all over the top of their cars are, how beautiful.
The departure is handled in rolls and is awesome.
We carry all day fun starting at 35-40 ° C, until my tire is flat while driving slowly. We come just to stand next serveral road construction equipment. When we then keep the tube inflated in the hands, is nowhere in air, in water can we find any holes. Strange had the hose when installed but still hissed .. During the hose lying in the sun, looks Henning Construction, the closer, behind a panel, which he replaced with a screwdriver, he finds diodes, eight diodes!
And then comes yet again from the air hose. The holes appear to be good to open only at high temperatures, very suspect. However, the hose is repaired, and we can do with the "Albanian-sites diodes and eingepacktem tow rope on his way.
The streets are following such "50Km limit" really great, some were straight roads just been completed, only falls out that the tar is very very soft, so that the stand of mopeds sink, or even fall over the mopeds.
counter 20pm then before us is the last part of Albania, about 20 km slopes.
The way is really only of loose stones and sand, but makes a lot of fun to drive.
In the dark we reached the Greek border post.
We did it, we are in Greece!


nail in the tire






sleeper


stray cat at a gas station


Best place to sleep


Smooth exit


Our new friend ..





vs. horse-drawn carts. x5


Albania


yesss


runway


checkpoint Greece

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