10 Jan 2022 - 20:04
We left the main road for a while again today to avoid some more long tunnels, it was pretty muddy and rough in places - we stopped for a chat with some ladies working on their vegetable patch (they speaking Turkish and us speaking English) - they didn't seem to rate our chances of making through the way we were headed (last time we ignored this advice, in Albania, I ended up going for a swim in the stagnant mud of a salt marsh!) but we decided to keep on going and it turned out to be a really nice ride - a change of scenery and much needed respite from the noisy traffic.