Crossing boarder to Turkey

Bye Bulgaria! See you hopefully soon. After a long and hard ride up the hills (all day 107km and 1.950m height!!!!!) trough the dense Bulgarian forest with again - a lot of flies - we arrived in Malko Tarnovo.

It's a sleepy, lovely town with decreasing population next to the Turkish boarder. We eat the last Shopska salad while talking to a nice Finnish guy. He was a happy to have a small break from his Bulgarian wife's family ;) The boarder control takes only 5 minutes and we are in Turkey!

First impressions:

- No flies, no forest
- Awesome streets, broad, straight, no holes
- Car drivers greet a lot
- New max speed Wi: 78km/h
- A shepherd gives us fresh berries from Rhus Coriaria bush
- We have a coffee and a cake for less than one Euro
- Hear the first calls for prayer by the nearby mosque
- unpronounceable language: teşekür ederim = thank you

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