Day 342km
Trip 3328km
Bike 8353km
Today we had a rather late start at 10:00, but we recconed it would be a short drive with 300 odd km. But of course we were proven wrong 😉
The day was hot and the road turned out to be veeery narrow and winding through millions of hills. The landscape is very lush, green and hills, cliffs and of course the blue sea. Extremely void of tourists and very laid back, somehow still set in the 1960s.
Driving was good fun but also tyring, quite a physical experience. At some point I dropped the bike in a 330′ uphill hairpin bend- was going too slow and right in the the engine said ‘klonc’ and stopped. Well nothing much happened, well padded, but enginebars and panier box scratched/torn.
At some point when we decided to stop for some water again, we met a nice german/argentinian couple, leo and nathalie- enroute to india on their Africa Twin. Leo had worked as a tourguide in russia for some australian bike company and therefore was able to provide us with some helpfull advice. For this trip, Leo has now gotten rid of all possesions- except for his bike and his girlfriend 😉
For the first time we met quite a few german turks. All very friendly and eager to share in some talk about merkel and the rest of the world …
Finally we arrived in Sinop after travelling for close to 7h and booked into the first (nice) hotel.
And here we are, sharing the honeymoon suite/bed overlooking the city 😉
All places we have been to so far a totally dead before sunset- rammadan of course. Once the sun disappears into the oacean though, every person able to walk is flogging to the city’s square. Interstingly enough the shoot up a really loud rocket to inform everyone about the fact that the sun has set. Today that rocket went off about 50m in front of our 6th floor window- as I was looking out. Cost me at least 5 years of my life 😉
And finally a small video about driving along this cosstal road- a bit washed out since I had to stick my iphone to my windscreen using ductape 😉
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