Podgorica

We had a meeting with NGO Green Home to plan an action together in the city to promote the use of bicycles...
After the meeting some went to visit the city and others stayed in a park for a Rhythms of Resistance Samba Workshop with recycled instruments, 2 kids and 2 tourists joined us :D

filming my bicycle for television

In the evening we joined with local activists in the main square to talk with the press and then cycled around the center in circles in a kind of Critical Mass (and it was even the last friday of the month :D)

"Clean air for all"

Barkan, from israel joined the biketour before the action...
In the night we had a fast dinner in a park and then went to a local caffee to drink rakjia with some locals and even got a man playing and singing to us :D...nice night...

taking a shower with the fire brigade truck before going to bed :D

Vranjina -> Podgorica

We swam in the lake in the morning and then cycled to Podgorica, capital of montenegro, to join the rest of the group...

reparing my tire in the train station, where the conductor offered me a coffee :)

in the way had a big tire problem with my recently bought tire (in Shkoder i instaled a new back tire) 7 holes in my inner tube at once and a hole in the tire!!! i think i made less than 200 km with this "VeeRubber" tire....

night meeting circle in the city kings monument

After visiting the city, we meet with the group and found a place to mount the camp in the top of a hill, where is one of the city parks, after talking with some members of the fire department they allow us to mount our tents and guard them also :D

Krnjice -> Vranjina

My knee was better and yo was felling well, but the group decided to take a mountain road and to not abuse we took a different route, much shorter, by the main road, next to the lake...
We had still breakfast together in Virpazar and then we crossed the bridge over the lake and found a place to mount a camp in the morning next to the lake...
We passed all day taking and swimming, relaxing :D

Ostros -> Krnjice

siesta next to the road

In the morning still some people were feeling sick and i had a problem with my left knee... so i cycled really calm and stopping a lot for small siestas in the way :D

rakija and homemade cheese

We stopped to eat next to a really nice family house where they offered us rakjia and we bought them some homemade cheese, potatoes and tomatoes to make lunch because in this region there aren't many shops...

Andrea giving nuts and raisins to everyone who passes :D

After lunch, we cycled to the lake, we could finally go down the mountain to a small beach and swim in cristal waters :D

Shkoder -> Ostros (Montenegro)

unmounting camp

In the morning Ondreij left us and cycled alone to catch a train back to prague and we cycle to the border with Montenegro...then we crossed a great hill and cycled along the Shkoder lake (but in a high altitude, in the top of the surrounding mountains)...

Crossing the border

All the big cycling up was made under sun and some people in the night were not feeling well (still unknown if was a water problem or too much sun)...

stopping to pick berries all way up

big going up way in Montenegroview over Shkoder Lake

We found a nice field to camp and have lunch and dinner (with some kids visiting us to see what we were doing :D)...

Shkoder

cleaning bike :)

While some went to visit the city others stayed next to the camp, cleaning bicycles and doing biketour patches...

lunch time, next to the river

We had a long talk about food (what is each one habits, hot versus cold food, schedules, etc...) to try to get a more equilibrated way of eating for everyone...

Ondreij gave a really unexpected new, he will leave us because will be a father ;) and Andrea (italy), Barcha and Ivana (Czech Republic) joined us this afternoon...

Ondreij workshop and last night in biketour

In the night we had 4 guests to dinner with us and a nice and informative workshop about United Nations Climate change policies by Ondreij...

Rinas Lake -> Shkoder

yolanda swimming under the sunriseIn the morning we swam in the hot lake water :D... and then start cycling north to meet the group...

We stop in Lezhe for lunch (onion byreks :D)...and after siesta continued cycling...

meeting the group

When we had a stop to pick some berries the group just appeared in our back!!.. (we always thought they would be ahead of us...) and we magically were all together again :D
We then cycle all together to Shkoder, the albanian bicycle city :D, where we camped in a field next to the river

Tirana -> Rinas Lake

The group left tirana in the morning, and me and yarden stayed in Tirana waiting for Yolanda...

internet in the city park :D

we cycled around, and hate a great vegan pizza with a albanian chef we had met the last day...

then Yo arrived (from holland, 4 trains, one boat and a bus :p..) and we cycled out the city... we decided to camp next to a great lake were we cooked fire potatoes and tahini :D... great resting day and to see yo again ;)