In Greece! - the first 300km done!

Day 8:
What a great experience to buy groceries in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere...when everybody looks at you as if you where an alien!
Outside of the village we where welcomed much warmer with tea and snacks. We even could have slept there, but we preferred to hike a few more kilometers. This was a mistake because when it started raining we had to make camp near a burnt down gas station.

Day 9:
After a rainy night the sun was shining again - a perfect day to wash your dirty socks sand undies and hang them on your backpack to dry. In the evening we had our first campfire!

Day 10:
Wind from the side makes walking so much harder. At one point we had to grab the guard railing not to be blown in the oncoming traffic....After Malkara we couldn't find a suitable camping spot sao we had to push it another 6km! The nice little forest just uphill a shepard's home was a gift from heaven!

Day 11:
A day starts great when people are greeting you from there cars! After an invitation for coffee in a village pub and hot soup and tea at a gas station we could not stop praising Turkish people and their hospitality!

Day 12:
The wind tortured us again on the poor, meagre high plateau before the border. We couldn't find any suitable camp site before the border so we had to push it again. In the border area we where not allowed to cross on foot, so we hitched a ride with a turkish trucker that offered us to take us all tehe way to Albania (to safe us a piece of the way home). Weltcome to the E.U.!
On the greek side of the border we camped near an old tank emplacement with view on the border!

Day 13:
Without any map of greece we hiked towards Alexandroupolis. The traffic in greece is much faster, the emergency lane much narrower and the people a lot less friendly. - What a great start!

Day 14:
A long day along a heavily trafficked road - but we made it to Alexandroupolis! And we splurge on the luxury of a camp ground!

Day 15:
Chill, relax, do laundry, buy maps and organise our further trip.....