Day 13 - Paralia, Greece to Ignoumenitsa, Greece. It's a race to the west coast today to get to the ferry port for our ship back to Italy. It doesnt sail until 1am so we've got plenty of time assuming we have the stamina for a long ride in terms of miles and in terms of hours. Its about 220 miles or so today but it will be on very twisty roads so not easy to rack up the miles. We head off towards Mount Olympus in search of the gods. The first section of country...

Day 12 - Alexandroupolis, Greece to Paralia, Greece. It's been a funny old day really! Nobody seemed particularly in a hurry to set off so we made the most of breakfast. We're now in a strange part of the journey where we know we have to be at the ferry port on Tuesday evening and it's a hard deadline. We start off straight onto the motorways which are really quite good. It gives us the opportunity to stick on the cruise control and relax into it. The roads are v...