The border crossing is a money making exercise for Turkey as there is a fee for the visa. The Canadians were the hardest hit forking out 45 euro as opposed to 15 euro for most others. The quality of the roads, however, has generally been excellent with some spectacular downhills followed, of course, by some steep climbs. My body and mind said "enough" several times today and I walked a few of the uphills. Merlin hit 75km per hour on the steep straight downhill which was like a Disneyland ride including the slight nausea at the bottom...
The sun broke through around 9am and I plodded on to lunch at 62km. Watermelon!!!
Hills, more hills and damn hills... and then Vize (pronounced Visy) came into sight and I rode in behind Esther Kim and Stirling to the very fancily named "Otel Trak"... in name only.
It is a rest day tomorrow and, although Vize looks like a one street town, I was surprised to learn there might be some interesting sights to see! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vize
More on that tomorrow although I fear there will be no street art to post.
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