I was first greeted by a strictly religious dentist, who suggested me a good spot to hitchhike after giving me an unopened bible followed big a wet kiss on my cheek. Let’s say that I preferred the cold beer that I got offered the day before. 

After a refreshing swim and my third ride for the day I made it to Kavala just before sunset, this felt like a small victory because I didn’t have an accommodation yet.

The departure day from Thessaloniki started really badly, when I got off the citybus a stop too late and ended up in the middle of nowhere on the highway in the boiling weather.

The adventures in Macedonia started with a really lucky coincidence where I met four travellers from my previous hostels! This show how little hostels there actually are on the Balkans, everyone seems to visits the same places!

The journey now continues towards the Macedonian border earlier than planned, but that doesn’t matter since I’m running out of leks anyway!

For some reason everyone has decided to start the same kind of fancy seafood restaurant in an old looking fishing shed... Absolutely nothing original or local here. 

By the end of the week we wanted to somehow give back to the people of Berat, because we had been photographing like crazy there confusing pretty much the whole town. 

Our first destination was Thethi, which is a valley surrounded by huge mountains. This national park is still inaccessible by normal car, which made it a perfect mountain hideout after an three hour hike. 

I spent on of the best adventures so far in Krahesi, which is a tiny village north from Berat. I didn’t know anything about the town when I decided to leave the bus on a totally random stop.

Phuket is invaded by almost identical tourist shops behind every corner. We managed to find some local culture on our last days when we took the smallest trails we could find.