• Mark Holbrook
  • Mark Holbrook

Albania

Overland to the land of crazy drivers and back by ferry and a night in Roman tombs. Leer más
  • Durres to Bari

    19–20 jul. 2022, Albania ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    A big red light has illuminated on by bike's dash.......and of course there is nobody in Albania to look at it...Brainwave! I am just a ferry ride from Italy where the bike was born....so Durres to Bari by boatLeer más

  • Bari

    20–21 jul. 2022, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Success there is a Moto Guzzi garage in Bari....but they do not have an adapter to read the ECU...but there are 4 other garages in the area so surely one of them will have on?..No...a day whose only virtue was a fine TrulloLeer más

  • Matera

    20–22 jul. 2022, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C

    Still Big Red Light on engine but there is nothing I can do about it now. Last Christmas we watched 'No Time to Die' which starts with a motorcycle chase in a beautiful hill top town in southern Italy....some research revealed it as 'Matera'. This town used to be Italy's disgrace, it was just a big slum, but now it has been transformed. Each building has what looks like a normal façade but actually it is carved from the living rock and inside is hollowed out caves.....I found a cave to sleep in!Leer más

  • Sutri

    24–25 jul. 2022, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C

    380 BC this place was founded huge amphitheatre hewn out of the rock and a whole cliff side of Etruscan tombs...I am early for my ferry so bed roll out for a siesta in the cool tomb.

  • Rome

    25 de julio de 2022, Italia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C

    I was here ridiculously early for the ferry and I couldn't drink beer all day but Rome is a really scary place to drive around but having got round the one way system I was not going to leave!

  • Barcelona

    26 de julio de 2022, España ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    So on the ferry I discovered you arrive in the middle of a clean air zone....yes that's right, they take you into a clean air zone which either you can drive through because you have the right stickers or.....You have to wait until between 2 and 6 in the morning! No, I didn't have the sticker but I did manage to check that my bike is Euro 4 so I am allowed but only with sticker....they trap you though by ANPR so the need for stickers is beyond me and I ignored it.Leer más

  • Fin del viaje
    29 de julio de 2022