Italy-Greece-Athens

Where to start?

It's been a good few days since we left Italy and arrived in Greece.
We arrived in style via a 20 hour ferry journey, passing up the cabin option and taking the sleep outside on the deck option instead.

On arrival to Greece we purchased a map and spoke to some guy for directions to Athens. He was a warm and friendly chap who congratulated us on our trip across europe and pointed us in the direction of the old smaller road.

We set off riding through town and our bikes immediatly felt at home on the dusty cracked roads. It was also the first time on our trip that we had seen other Honda C90's, they were everywhere..

We rode round the coast road and found a beautiful campsite pitching our tent about 20 meters from the shore. We swam washed filthy clothes and later drank a few beers with our meal of tined mackerel. The sound of the waves and the stars over head soothed away the 2 weeks of riding, and we sat and talked nonsense. We were chillin in Greece.

The following day we carried on round the coast road to Athens stopping to chat with an old guy in a cafe about his knackered old C50 which he insisted we tried.
I declined politely but was informed by Liam and Bon that the ride was entertaining and difficult to stop.

Our one bike problem so far occured as we approached Athens.

I had a blow out on the back tire. luckily it wasn't a puncture but a burst inner tube, probably brought on by the bumps and train tracks we had been riding over.
We pulled the bike to the side of the road under the shade of a tree and Bon went about masterfully taking the wheel off and changing the inner tube.
Half an hour later and we we're back on the road.

We pushed on to Athens and arrived around 5.30 ish outside the Acropolis.
There could be no doubt, we had definatley made it to Greece now.

laters I've got to go swimming
Jamie