Tuesday, 30 June 2026

More heat, more Borders, more great roads

Leaving our fish farm digs and back onto main roads, we had some spectacular roads , good fun but you have to be careful, another border crossing into Albania and we found our roadside hotel easily. Staff were very nice and we spent the night hiding from the heat in the air conditioned bar, tough life !
Nice road
almost at our rest stop for the day.

Saturday we were lucky enough to find the amazing sh20 road, until recently it was unpaved but now its superb, plenty photo opportunities and eventually a border crossing again into Montenegro,  it was qued but the locals told us to skip the queue which we did and then just got waved through which was different from other crossings, eventually we rode into Ulcinj which is on the coast, we had seen temperatures up to 38 degs and we were wabbit when we rolled into our digs, a B&b type place with a restaurant and apartments,  the guy who met us told us to take a seat and gave us a beer on the house, it went down well!
our hotel view, not bad
sheep
a little bird told me
not too shabby
not shabby at all
coffee stop
amazing
indeed it was 
Back into Montenegro for a couple of days then back to Albania and Lake Shkodar for our final night, very very hot. Today we headed  back to Durres to catch our ferry back to Italy so I leave it there with some photos 
Nice guy at a rest stop place, talked politics, we didn't understand each other but we both agreed all politicians are arseholes .

Hot
cooling of in the lake 
Nice sunset
fiona poured a bottle of tap water over herself to keep cool
still hot
Durris was a surprise, a 5th century venetian tower
me eating ice cream,  that's about my level of interest 
all the flags but not one from the UK
a roman amphitheatre 
bod Dylan
John Lenton and Fiona singing a song 
hiding from the sun
and me 

So Italy tomorrow,  keep on keeping on 

10 comments:

  1. Looks totally idyllic, braw as weel!

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  2. Great photos , I would rather be avoiding the sun than the rain that we’re getting , safe travels , speak soon Laura xx

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  3. Looks like you have had a marvellous trip, great quiet roads, probably too high temps, but the joy of cool cool beers at the end of the day to wind down and reminisce about the days events, plus plan the next adventure. Enjoy being back in Italy…DIVERTITI .

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    1. Hard day today , 300 miles and saw 22 degrees, freezing

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  4. "we spent the night hiding from the heat in the air-conditioned bar" Hard going at times, but someone has to do it. I suppose riding in that heat for too long would make you look forward to some nice cool rain, but I'm enjoying looking at your photos of the sun-soaked countryside. Looking good; carry on enjoying making us all envious.

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  5. Splendid! But a wee bit hot for a wuss like me, 25°C and I stop functioning very well, especially if the humidity is high. You might be safer staying over there, a caravan nicked this afternoon at 15:00 from the cottages at West Cultmalundy, spotted hitched up to a car leaving the farm road end onto the Tibber road! Honda Groms and other machines, being nicked at traffic lights by gangs of balaclava clad low life. Pull the key out, knock the rider off and give them a kicking, whilst the bike is spirited away. On the brighter side of life the SCMC run on 28th appeared to have all gone off well, with a large number of bikes in attendance. Unfortunately, missed it. Hey! Ho! Good health, Bill and Kat

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  6. Great,whit a trip,dinnae think I could take the heat,be nice tae try.Yis are noo over 60 countries,some total an' yiv got Scotland tae come hame tae...no a bad wee life.Stay safe.

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    1. Cheers George, Friday will hopefully be 62, then that's it, scotland, a nice bed and braw roads

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