Today we have had a very relaxed day starting with Colin having the most sumptuous breakfast ever! Each of the courses were served beautifully and tasted even better, I enjoyed my melon and hot water much to the dismay of the owner/manager who tried desperately to get me to eat something else, his final word to Colin were "I need a wife like this one"! As we walked down to the castle, the hotel manager passed us and told us to visit an old merchants house down t...

An early start this morning for a number of reasons the first being if we couldn't get through the Albanian border we would have time to re route, if we did get through then we knew the route we were taking was a long ride and given the road conditions that we have experienced already this trip we knew that it would take far longer than the predicted 6 hours and we were right. Also we didn't want to ride in the hottest part of the day. The roads were as expecte...