Ipsala

So every gantry over the toll roads in Turkey warns foreign drivers that they cannot leave the country until all tolls are paid. Worried therefore that my toll pre paid card may have run out I make another unscheduled detour to a PTT...the Turkish post office. Once more I arrive at 12.31 to find them closed.....I wait....then I wait some more...when they open again a nice lady says she in fact cannot check my card and has no idea how much the tolls would be to the border...she does however put TL 400 on my card. I carry on and meet 5 km queue of trucks at the border....I ride down the middle...at the border I push my bike through because it is overheating...I get shouted at because I am foreign and not paid my tolls...I hand over my toll card...it is turned upside down and back to front and then I am sent to the cash office.....They ask for TL 200...I give them my toll card....they ask for TL200...I give up...TL200 is the largest denomination bank note on this country and it will just buy a cup of coffee. Having cleared Turkey O then head into a militarized no mans' land...Tanks, razor wire and temporary bridges and then I get to Greece and another 5 km queue of lorries....Here two Greeks take great interest in my brakesLæs mere