Turkey - the last part of our 5 month cycling trip across Mediterranean Europe from Portugal to Turkey. It was more of a relaxation time staying in Ankara for almost 2 weeks with a bunch of great Turkish students and then on an almost entirely empty (at that time of the year) Kinali island just off Istanbul. Here, on a tiny island, in total silence it was time to look back at the entire trip and realize how amazing Europe us and despite the small size how different one end (Portugal) is from the other end (Turkey) and how it gradually changes from one end to the other. The music is by Aynur Dogan (Ehmedo) and Orient Expressions (Istanbul 1:26 A.M.) from "Crossing the Bridge" CD.

The slideshow with some movie clips to the music of Goran Bregovic (Mavro Xioni) sung by Alkistis Protopsalti covers the route from the Albanian border in Ioannina province going downhill through Ioannina city all the way to the Gulf of Corinth and across to Peloponnese and then east towards Athens from where we caught a ferry to Turkey.

This is a part of our cycling trip across Mediterranean Europe from Portugal to Turkey in 2005. It's a slideshow with some movie clips and it covers the road from Vlore through the mountains to Tepelene then to Gjirokaster and to the Greek border.