July 25th - Welcome to Greece...

We left Istanbul around 4am to avoid traffic and keep temperature down. Our 1st stop was before the Greek border at the petrol station to spend our remaining Lira (Turkish money).

600 KM today until Thessalonoki...It will be our first Greek town.

We reached the Greek border around 7.30pm. 

The passport controler at the 1st stop asked us our motorbike insurance doc. Ouups ! In China, the insurance is with the license plate but out of China, this doc does`t mean anything...So he told us to go to the custom office few meters away. 

Me : Hello Sir

Him : Hello, what do you want ?

Me : heuuuu, we want to go to Greece...

him : Then, go !

Me : Ok - thanks Sir

So basically, we did not solve our insurance problem but at least we were free to go, so we did not insist and jump on the bike and powaaaa to Greece.

On the way, we stopped by a small town along the coast for a lunch and swim. Once we entered in Greece, we started to see motorbike everywhere, especially o these city coast. Not sure if its legal or not but people are on the highway with big bikes, short, tee shirt and no helmet.

A bit shocking for us !! 

We enjoyed the beach and take a 1hour nap before hitting the road under hooooot temperature.