I apologise for the quality, olympos is something I will never buy again
on the border of LV-LT, I guess they were weekended there
the baltics are truly boring, when just driving through
having a lunch and shower near rszeszow, pl. the turkish trucks were parked there before I arrived and were still not going anywhere an hour and a half later, when I left. the reason for that became clear after a few minutes of driving - got a thorough inspection from the polish version of vosa, not a problem, the turks usually don’t fair well in these situations.
good old romania, at least the drawbar was flying, very unusual for a local
good progress being made up until now…
the example on load restraint shows the proximity of turkey, somewhere in bulgaria
nice clear roads though
my favourite place to spend the night around here - hotel somat, kapitan andreevo, the willy betz terminal. a couple of kms to the left is the border with turkey and the lights in the distance are greece
approaching istanbul
at least no worries about someone nicking the plate off the trailer, the customs in gebze
the customs in gebze again
waiting to unload by the akzo nobel factory in gebze
this plastic rambo came knocking on my door every 5 minutes regarding my place of parking, which was not disturbing anyone and was the only proper space available. the police was supposed to arrive in 5 minutes according to him and they would fine me heavily but after two hours of waiting it was only him, looking as if he was going to cry.
about 15 of these were sitting across the street from the customs, probably heading for the oilfields in the south
what a nice bloody decal to display on your truck
well the plates are bulgarian
the turks sure care about emissions of all sorts. somewhere between istanbul and ankara
and this is where the fun part of turkey ends, my exit from the motorway
getting some fuel and a shower in samsun
nice scenery but very slow progress
the backbone of the turkish transport industry - the otosan transit
garbage? not a problem! throw it in the nearest available hole in the ground.
looking back at the tr-ge border at sarpi, it was quite a long day
batumi
on the motorway approaching tbilisi
the tbilisi ring road. since I did not request for somebody to meet me before the city this time, I thought I would honor the law and not drive through the center as I did last time, it was the rush hour and stupid me thought that since I had to get to the airport on the other side of tbilisi, the ring road might get me there faster. 2 hours and 70kms later I did not think that anymore.
the local builders market, not hard to see why most of the materials needed for the remodelling of the estonian embassy were brought by me from 5000kms away
the asphalt in turkey and georgia gets slippery as hell when wet and this was a very common sight
the view after pulling the curtains one morning
didn’t see too many trucks from turkmenistan
at least they take visa… merzifon-ankara
the road from ankara to izmir was almost perfect, some patches still under construction though
this did take some work, reloading at ajan cnc, izmir
almost ready to go…
the gulf of izmir
izmir customs
an australian traveller
well it’s nice to see a 200gram counterweight on the wheel of a car that has just rolled out of the factory, but I was not going to buy a dacia anyway
sleeping in the middle of the road in romania, somewhere between calimanesti and sebes
last coffee before arriving in estonia - statoil, bauska lv
it took 27 days altogether, about 11000 kms
