Friday 08.04.2011 – We packed up and headed out of Athens bright and early to avoid the peak hour traffic. We set Tom for Corinth; about 80km away just to get us out of the city. Destination – unknown but somewhere into the Greek Peloponnese. We thought we were doing fine for the first 3 km before we hit the motorway as the traffic was light and travelling at a steady speed. Then chaos!! The motorway traffic was not only horrendous but downright suici...

Staying in the centre of Athens was against all we had previously planned for because Greg was adamant that he did not want to ride the hellish Athens traffic, especially since we would be arriving during late afternoon peak hour. But (yes but), Kerrie prevailed and persuaded Greg that we could negotiate our way safely and without drama through peak hour traffic and into our digs for the next two nights because we had, after all, ridden through both Rome & Pa...

Tue 05.04.2011 – We all met out the front of the hotel on our bikes packed up ready to roll. A local journo turned up, took our picture and promised we would be in the local rag in the next day. Wonder if we were? We decided that we would follow Darren and Phil out of town and take the coast road instead of the motorway. Not long out of town Darren & Phil (both on Blackbirds) forgot that we were two up and they literally took off, leaving us out of sigh...

Sunday 03.04.2011 – All of the gang that arrived at the Crowded House Hotel at Eceabat the day before we did set of this morning. Dave MILLIGAN and his group headed north to the Bulgarian border. The rest including Dangerous Darren, Fabulous Phil (both on Blackbirds), Eric (BMW GS1200) & his wife Lou (Aprilia Shiver 750), Pete & his wife Andy (BMW GS1150), headed off to the Greek border. As an aside, Kerrie & Lou discovered they went to the same...