Finally home!
We got home after 42 days (six weeks) and 9,910 kms on the odometer.
We would have exceeded 10.000 kms had we not left out Bucharest (although we did cross Romania from north to south), but a previous engagement precluded a visit there as we were already cutting it very fine time-wise.
This will be the final update with pictures (until the actual write-up) to include Budapest/Hungary, Timisoara/Romania and Sofia/Bulgaria.
I will add (later) one more image (map) to indicate the whole route (final).
Ok here goes ...
Budapest/Hungary:
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Timisoara/Romania:
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True horse-power!
Sofia/Bulgaria:
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Coming into Montana I started looking for John and John here (FJ and Freedom) but they ... just weren't to be found.
What a disappointment!
Actually, this is a big town in the north-west of Bulgaria.
The final leg/run from Sofia/Bulgaria to Athens (just over 800km) was yet another "all-nighter".
It is well after midnight and we are on the outskirts of Thessaloniki (aka Salonica) 120 kms from the Bulgarian border (300kms from Sofia) ... about to turn onto the final highway (A2-E90) to Athens (Athina).
Just another 520 kms to go!
That brings us to my last picture of the bike in "unusual places" idea.
There will be many more pictures along with the story/ies in the actual write-up.
As I said, I will be adding a map of the whole route travelled along with my closing note soon.
