International trip Sofia, Bulgaria - Kavala, Greece - 11th July - 12th July 2009

The idea : trip for fun and sigh seeing.
Kavala is an ancient city founded by settlers from Thasos in about the 6Th century BC. It is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos.

The route : Sofia - Belovo - Razlog - Ilinden Eshohi ( Border Crossing ) - Drama - Kavala

The distanse - 350+ kilometres ( one way ). If someone could explain me how to use google.map, I'll apreciate it.
I noticed 4 forum members ( no one on our map ) including Stella from Greece. Perhaps they could give me an advice about the acomodation.

The participants: Will ad an infomation.

Here are some pictures of our destination.


http://www.yambolskytour.com/images/thassos-kavala-solun/kavala.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Kavala_Castle.jpg/800px-Kavala_Castle.jpg

http://www.sofiatour.net/02/images/greece/ChERKVA-V-SOLUN.jpg


And this if from a place called Meteora, with a lot a monastries build on the rocks. I think is close to Kavala.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Meteora_1_evlahos.jpg/800px-

That looks like an awesome trip. One day I would like to do some international traveling. Starting with Canada and then off to other places.

wow! beautiful

All forum members are invited, please feel free to join ! :p


I 'll be gratefully for same contact info regarding our members in Greece, in case of .... you know.
It would be nice if I can meet someone over there for the first international forum member meeting Greece 2009. :D

hello neighbour...!!:)

your idea is fantastic...Kavala is my father's origin (i born & live in Athens)and i assure you that is an amazing city.
unfortunatelly, i can't follow you because i will work until the end of July and i will be in there 12-17 of August,for vacations.:woot2:
(5days only to see my cousins etc)

I would gladly help you to find accomodation there...just ask for it.

wait your news!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Looks like fun

http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9722

Looks something like this, right?

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Sounds like a fun trip!

hello neighbour...!!:)

your idea is fantastic...Kavala is my father's origin (i born & live in Athens)and i assure you that is an amazing city.
unfortunatelly, i can't follow you because i will work until the end of July and i will be in there 12-17 of August,for vacations.:woot2:
(5days only to see my cousins etc)

I would gladly help you to find accomodation there...just ask for it.

wait your news!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

:thumbup: Efaristo, Stella ! σε ευχαριστώ :thumbup:

Wow! Looks like a cool trip! Look forward to the pics and ride report :)

5 days to go.... :D

dont forget to visit Golden sand beach (kavala):happy100::happy70::happy70:

dont forget to visit Golden sand beach (kavala):happy100::happy70::happy70:

:drunk1:

Despite the bad forecast ...rain hail and thunder...we are leaving tomorrow at 8.00 EET. :cool:

At least few of us... The rest quit. The real bikers do not. Ever. :D

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502119.jpg

:thumbup: In case of interest, will add some pictures.

I wish I were back in the Med!

:thumbup: In case of interest, will add some pictures.

There's interest! :)

To bad we are across the oceans! :)

How did it go??

Can't wait to see more pics and hear about your trip :) !!!!

Before starting the story of that trip I would like to ask you , (once again ) to excuse my English. :cool:
All distance and speed are in kilometers.
My basic idea was to check - how would I feel after riding 800 kilometers in a weekend and how would it be to ride a Ninjette among the big bikes.
It didn't let me down. My bike traveled equal to the others. Didn't slow down the group. Although we tried to keep average speed about 130 kph in Bulgaria and 120 kph in Greece, because of the speed limits... And the simple explanation - our cops are easy...they do take bribes - Greek do not.

So, let the jurney begins.
This is the litle beast ready to leave.

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502080.jpg

Gathering and waiting for the last member

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502081.jpg

The bike were :

Honda Transalp 600 cc
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499435-big.jpg
Suzuki Intruder Volusta 800 cc
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499422-big.jpg
BMW K 1200
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499427-big.jpg
Piaggio X 9 500 cc ( with a lot of engine tunning )
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499433-big.jpg

and last, but not least Ninja 250R 2008
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499449-big.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502084.jpg


At the first brake - about 130 km from Sofia

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527806-big.jpg

Since no one from the original organizers took part we've decided to change the final destination. Instead of Kavala we headed to Asprovalta , Agios Georgios ( Saint George ) municipality.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=bg&q=asprovalta+greece&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=bg&ei=t5ZbSpXmHo_K_gbLqameCQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1

At the border... I had to make an emergency break, due to a friends mistake.
I tried to stop from about 50+ to avoid a crash with the Piaggio X 9 and the bike sliped ( instead of hitting him ).... I was on the ground... the bike was was on the ground. :D God bless R & G crash protectors.... I still can't believe.
Just a minor scratch on the left turn signal, gear , the stand and the crash bobbin. Incredible. Ah, I am fine as well. :thumbup:

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502111.jpg

Never mind the low picture quality, will make new tomorrow.

I have checked the temperature at the border. It was 37 degrees Celsius. Minutes later it started to rain so the next hour was "I'm riding in the rain" :cool:

A stop to check at the map. The rain gave us a five minute break.

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527926-big.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527249-big.jpg

a view to the sea

http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499722.jpg

Here we've just arrived to Stavros, a small city, close ( 30 km )to our destination...

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527809-big.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499391-big.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527949-big.jpg
Beautyfull, isn't it ?
http://media.snimka.bg/3622/013499413-big.jpg

At the local restaurant

http://media.snimka.bg/3636/013527938-big.jpg

While we were looking for a acomodation...

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502093-big.jpg

Few local girs in Asprovalta were very hapy to see foreign bikers ...
This the way the say "HI" to us. :eek:

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502094-big.jpg

http://media.snimka.bg/3623/013502095-big.jpg

If you don't mind I will continue with the rest tomorrow.;)

Great pics - looks like a good trip :) And glad you had the R and G's!

:clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping::clapping:

Those were some great pics. The landscape is beutiful.

europe looks....so good :eyebrows: