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Hi all bikefans!
This time we are planing to bike with our Mountainbikes from Sofia (BG) to Athens (GR).
After our Bike-Roadtrip more than 4 yeas ago from Sofia to Istanbul we finaly managed to commit on this new challenge!
Hope we will find some possibilties to once a while update this blog during our trip!
Wish us luck and steadiness!!!
Alex and Peter

30 June 2010

Day 3: Kovachevitsa -> Serres

Starting in rain - what else.. - almost getting used to it we had a nice asphalt downhill through the deep south gipsy area of bulgaria. Rain stopped after 1,5 hours during our first stop for a tea. Heading south towards the bg/gr boarder we choosed to take a shortcut to a small valley avoiding the main road to the boarder. Well took us 45 minutes, 10 rivercrossings (without bridges of course) getting wet again - this time from the bottom up :-) but it was getting warmer because sun was shining. The 3rd beck crossing cost me my sunglasses while I was dropping into the water..
Boardercrossing with a bike is fun - we had no problems this time.
After crossing a big valley of fields we went up to 1000, back to 800 up to 1000m again enjoying another amazing view. I will post a video later to make you jealous :-). And the downhill was more than cool again - topspeed 73km/h from 1000 to 80m from chilly 15degrees to humid 26 in Serres. Serres is a very noisy city - we both had a bad night too hot and way to loud - I bought some oropax for both of us the next morning.

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