From Europe to Asia
Entering Turkey in Dikili
26.02.2008 - 26.02.2008
20 °C
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Route Olympia - China
on Lent's travel map.
After the night ferry from Athens to Lesvos we decided to continue right away to Turkey as ferry connections are irregular during the touristical off-season. So we entered Turkey one ahead of our time schedule and without being able to properly say good-bye to Greece, which certainly means so many different things to our European culture and heritage. Probably there is even some Greek thinking behind our Olympic Bicycle Ride, even though we don't consider ourselves as olympic fighters, let alone competitors on our road to Beijing. That is not to say that the daily mileage doesn't pose a daily physical challenge to everyone. Today, after landing in the port of Dikili at 11 am and the (for me) pleasant surprise that neither German nor Finnish citizens need to buy a Turkısh visa (everybody else had to), we covered ca. 75 km on the main road towards Edremit.
Welcome ın Dikili by the local press and police who escorted us out of the town.
GPS and more photos of the day: http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=13601
Posted by Lent 26.02.2008 12:06 PM Archived in Turkey
Hello Joachim,
you are doing well with your blog. I'm looking up this almost every day. It is interesting, also the GPS-trail. I'm a little bit unhappy, that I cannot join you and the whole group. Say hello to the entire group, especially Sigitas and Carlotta. I wish you and the group in general a safe trip.
Horst (WHV)
27.02.2008 by horad