The last 40km of Turkish road way leading to the Greek border was the worst road surface we have experienced in Turkey, I don't know if there is any significance to that observation or not but there you are. The border crossing was surprisingly simple particularly given what we had read and heard about Greece being the front line of Europe's efforts to control illegal immigration.

At both the Turkish exit post and Greek entry post we bypassed the long lines of TIR trucks and headed for the "car" lane. This seemed to cause no concerns with officials. The Turkish customs guys wanted a look inside the truck mostly to confirm my claim that the vehicle was a caravan, but other than a little curiosity; no problems. The Greek entry was even simpler. Apart from the stamping of passports the only other thing required was to view our green card insurance document. Boy were we glad we had gone to the trouble of getting that. The obtaining of the green card is another story that I will tell elsewhere in our blog, but for the moment it is enough to know that it was issued in the US, couriered to Germany and delivered to us in Istanbul by our son last week.

Once on the road in Greece we followd the A2/E90 all day. This is a very good 4 lane highway with toll sections. During the course of the day we paid tolls of 6 Euros twice, which apparently is cheaper than the rest of Europe. We noted regular road side rest areas with flush toilets and even saw a roadside sign telling caravaners (that's us) that the next gas station had a santiary dump. Boy we are back in civilization.

The scenery was a mix of rolling country hills and steep Mediterreanian coast.In warmer weather I could see the attraction of cruising along this coast soaking up the sun and sea. But right now we are on a bit of a timetable to get to Belgium (via Athens, Venice and Gaggenau - you might need to look that one up).


We camped in a large rest stop (without toilets) and pretty much had the place to ourselves for the night.