World motorcycle travels by David Crampton

Yesterday I headed to Igoumenitsa to catch the overnight ferry from Greece to Italy. Checkout time at Hotel Kastoria was 12 noon, I delayed my departure until the very last minute. Sitting around at the Port of Igoumenitsa waiting for the 8.15pm ferry to Ancona in temperatures that would be in the high thirties was […]

Dave Frankish asked for a map of the days route, this prompted me to take a screen shot from my Satnav, I have also amended yesterdays post with a map. Today I headed to Kastoria. The last time I travelled this way was on a trip to Eastern Turkey in 2012, back then Greece was […]

Yesterday I left Bulgaria and arrived in Greece. I was greeted with a smile at both the Bulgarian and the Greek border posts which always makes the day seem better. I was heading to the town Serres and planned to arrive at lunch time so I could have a relaxing afternoon in the sun. Once […]

We left Motocamp, Bulgaria yesterday and headed in the direction of Greece . This took us back over the Troyan pass in the opposite direction that we had travelled along it on the previous day, the photo’s are of the monument erected at the top of the pass that is dedicated to the memory of […]

We decided to stay at MotoCamp for another night, it seems to be the norm around here, people arrive intending to stay one night and then fail to escape its charm and stay on for several days. Having decided to stay we went to out for a ride to discover some of the local sight. […]

It was a short ride from our hotel to the Bulgarian border, we were delayed for a short while in the no mans land between Romania and Bulgaria while an army unit passed through, interestingly the army unit looked to be American. The Bulgarian border guard had a cursory look at my passport before I […]

We left Bran, Romania in cool weather with cloud cover. The mountain roads to the South of Bran rise to over 1250 metres and provide the twists and turns to be enjoyed on a motorbike. Some sections had heavy traffic, particularly HGV’s belching out black smoke and crawling up the steep sections. Later on in […]

It’s less than 100miles from Sibiu to Bran, Romania, this allowed us to arrive earlier this afternoon find some excellent accommodation and visit the castle. The castle is well kept and is linked with the Irish writer Bram Stoker and his Dracular novel. The name Dracula comes from the surnames of Vlad the Impaler’s father, […]

Set off this morning to ride the Transfagarasan highway. Some of you will remember Top Gear taking super cars along this road. I particularly remember the helicopter pilot who seemed to fly incredibly low over the road. The last time I rode this road was in 2008, on this occasion I followed a snow plough […]