Day10 🇬🇷 part “Greece - Volos”

Today we woke up very early in Podgorica, Montenegro. We had to set off by 7:00 since we had a big journey back to Greece. Google maps said it would take about 9:30 hours to arrive to Volos, crossing through Albania and then northern Greece. The road to the boarder was fast from Podgorica and the wait to enter Albania didn’t take too long. But this is where the nightmare begins. Crossing Albania from top to bottom is about 300 kilometres. The roads would constantly change from two lanes to one, there were loads of roadworks and dirt roads (and no safety during those roadworks for the workers or the people passing by), drivers would do whatever they wanted such as take over, not indicate where they’re going, stopping if they wanted to, and generally a jungle. You would think 300klm would take a short time…but it took us 7:30 hours of continuous driving. Lampros was very patient and I kept him company with crosswords, talking, singing😜. Arriving in Greece, we went to Kastoria and stopped there for something to eat and stretch ourselves. Volos was another 3.30 hours away. We had a souvlaki and walked back to the car to continue our journey to Volos. But, the car wouldn’t turn on..something wrong with the battery from what we gathered. We called our insurance company and they sent out roadside assistance in under 20 minutes. The car was fine after they tested it and turned it on, and we continued our journey. We arrived in Volos at 20:30, parked (which is always difficult in this city), checked into our room, and by 21:30 we were meeting a couple of friends, Grigoris and Garufalia for a souvlaki. Lampros knows Grigoris from the army, so not only did I study in university in Volos but Lampros also did his army training there too! We had a lovely time with them but we were done in after all those hours of driving. We came back to our room, showered and ready to get some rest. Tomorrow we’ll be walking around our favourite city, drink in coffee in our favourite shops and I can’t wait to have some mezedakia with tsipouro!!Læs mere