Refugees & Covid Test on Bicycle World Tour | Macedonia | No. 46

We crossed the border into Macedonia and cycled straight up the mountain to the Mavrovo National Park. Afterwards we continued our journey through Bitola and Prilep. There were accompanied by two new friends who want to test our bicycles. Just before the border to Bulgaria we met Daniel from Hungary again. In Strumica we wanted to get a Covid test to be able to enter Bulgaria. But no one could help us…

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Look at this guy also cycling actually there are cycle path around here as you can see on the left side red one but unfortunately they are like going up and down all the time and it doesn’t like feel well to cycle on this cycle path

It’s you see it it’s going up and down and it’s super useless I don’t know why here it makes sense but before you’ve seen this part it doesn’t and look at this there is again it’s going up and it’s going down and there’s no reason for that here we’re cycling towards the

Border time to leave hello they can speak German nice surprise I’m [Laughter] only thank you guy please Open let’s see if they let us enter can you open yeah thank you thank You welcome to Maia so we were having a break here eating something and then some people came also cyclists I will show you we were sitting like in the shade because the reason is there is water over there and took a shower over there at this place and now trying to get some

Shade here that’s the only shade we can find sitting on a cartone having some lunch super hungry rad Tomatoes oil we will try to catch up with the other guys we just finished our lunch now we will CLE through the national park up to 1,000 and going down again that’s 1080

M yesterday we were on the other side of the lake you remember Albania side and recycle all the way around up here I really enjoy it it’s not too steep nice to cycle now but it’s okay I enjoy so it’s 1,600 now easy peasy we got ebikes no it’s not an

Ebike so we finish for today we will Camp here because there is like a thunderstorm coming maybe we just washed and clean all our vegetables and over there is water nice water from the mountains unfortunately up there there is no water that’s why we camp here for today and do the pass

Tomorrow I like this place we have chairs and a table perfect and water is also very good the Mountain Water clean and cool if you ever cycle this way around the orid lake the water is really good don’t buy it in bottles drink it right from the

Mountain we might sleep in the hammock I don’t know or on the ground let’s See Good morning good morning we slept well the temperature was quite nice in the night I dreamed about snow I don’t know why and Daniel as well this camping spot is absolutely amazing very nice but also some other guys came up this night this might be a very popular

Camping spot for the local people So the plan is cycle all the way up to the pass and cycle down on the other side we picked some mint around here for our tea very delicious you can find everything around you in the nature you just have to watch out life is good huh

M what did you dream about uh first that it’s snowing and the second one flat tire yeah now it turns out like we are losing air after all those thousands of kilometers the tire is pretty worn out until Albania I didn’t even have the flat tire not a single one all the 7,000

Km and now in Albania it started having flat tires and EOS social Farm as you remember I always check the tire for damages but but to sum it up just five flat tires all together the whole trip that’s not much last night it was 12° let’s go I am in a

Cloud picking some fruits you’re cycling above and inside the clouds it reminds me of Romania transan Just uh I love it up here I’m really happy we did it today not yesterday we thought about doing it yesterday but as there was no water up here we decided to do it today and I really like it there is sun and no thunderstorm really Enjoy somewhere over there is another Viewpoint and we can take a look on the other Lake oh there are clouds again this is the tresa lake between almania and Macedonia there are like really bad spots in between you’ve got to be careful they are directly going to hell And she’s coming around the Corner oh this is awful there are like mosquitoes some small flies they follow you if you’re too slow they follow you all the time and try to get into your eyes oh so nice we just stopped here to shop some rice and bread and exchanged some money we asked

For internet Danielle is chasing us and we will meet him soon so he’s coming again to join our trip he’s from Hungary first time we met was in montro and now we’re meeting him again and I’m so happy he’s cycling together with Roma and roma is the guy we liveed together

With him in Tiana in Albania and the flat without no running water maybe you remember that’s quite funny because all the cyclists are meeting each other again at some point we just had our lunch also found some Wi-Fi today is my father’s birthday Dad if you see the episode happy

Birthday so Daniel is coming back and romae as well he’s from France all of them want to go to Greece and romae booked a flight from there let’s see if he’s able to catch it Daniel wants to join us to cycle towards turkey let’s see how fast they will catch

Up today we will cycle towards Bola some of our followers wrote us and invited us so let’s go there and see that’s the way where we came from welcome to bah let’s do some sseeing and continue towards Prelip Really enjoy this it’s quite flat awesome cycling on the left side there’s a small mini tornado you can see it and some guy is like burning his Crops there’s a roadside fire people burning the roadside to get rid of all the stuff that’s growing there we don’t have it in [Applause] Germany wow hey guys how are you how are you hi I’m Mario my name is Daniel nice to meet you nice to meet you too how are you tired

But to very good yeah are you from this planet no actually not good it’s such a nice Road here it’s so beautiful land perfect and it’s flat yes the last days we only had mountains only up Albania yeah yes Welcome to our country thank you we can go now okay

We’re going to his place now okay we will follow you okay thank you so much foring us up thank you you’re welcome you’re welcome so we spend one day at Christian’s place and we will go to kavachi all together there is a small up part as you can see they want to join

In and from there we will continue on our own thank you guys a lot for hosting we really enjoyed today we will change the bicycle they want to try so we will try their cycles and they will go with ours let’s See now I know how it looks like from behind I never see myself from behind W looks like a truck a Thing you need how are you Doing yeah good joke yeah after three days you get used to it and after one month you don’t feel the pain yeah you feel it but it’s yeah at some point you don’t think about it yeah and and it’s changing in the beginning you just feel paining and

Afterwards you just feel the pain in your head head because you think why am I doing this they are quite determinated they want to continue even if they’re feeling pain all the time if it’s like 30° it’s like 2:00 halfast one tough guys So we going up to the water SCE yeah there’s a source of oh nice have a shower yeah let’s take some water have a shower and continue up there is a water Source Okay water we did it yeah good job guys very good job strong yeah let’s have a shower Z Time to Say Goodbye stay well bye bye see you have a nice downhill thank you you too yo down Here first time we are getting up a hill without cycling on our Own Melan is down there refilling our bottles for having roadside shower super beautiful we come from there lots of downhill 850 down to 200 I really enjoy I really enjoy Macedonia small agriculture everywhere not the huge one we are used in Germany capsicum tobacco crops we are going to this direction towards

Kadzi really enjoy cycling on the roadside Macedonia no cars good roads not that steep what is this no way Turtle oh scared she’s scared she’s just wanted to show you guys Finally dinner Time preparing some corn on the fire tastes very Good this one I try to get ready without the leaves let’s see which one is better I really enjoy this place awesome camping spot Morning last night we slept over there but sun is coming up so we moved shifted all our stuff over here there’s Shadow time for breakfast yesterday we did 90 kilomet that’s why we slept a little longer today and we found those in the damster and the fruits we picked on the

Way and we found some fresh mint just had breakfast and found some Wi-Fi in the forest I don’t know where it comes from but really useful so actually there are like five people behind us try to catch up and we don’t know where we will Meet because of all the downhill yesterday we did a lot of kilometers the other guys are quite near I guess and Daniel told me he will leave the other guys and and they will join us so I don’t know where we will meet but let’s see Daniel is not far

Away he said he’s in neoo and cycling the highway right now I think he will catch up within the next 30 45 minutes Hello oh my god oh we thought we missed each other I’m so happy hi Again together K so muscle so my body weight is 57 kg right now right now 57 yeah 57 yes because of the food I’m eating all the time yeah but yeah look at this quadriceps wow muscle power yeah this is St is yeah that’s so the first I went to

Sardana or sadna I don’t know and tried to take the ferry to CR we and they say there is no fairies at all I ask from small boats like uh uh fishing ships or something but they also say nobody go to CR it’s completely closed yeah and then

I went to cavia it’s the nearest uh land border uh which was theoretically open and I asked uh in a bus companies they said that the buses are running and the border is open uh but uh they say that I should ask the police that uh will they let me through on the

Border or not so I went to the police office nobody knows nothing lot of hustle and then I go with the bike and there was like uh 12 kilometer long uh line from the Cars Q waiting yeah and then I was really happy about that I

Didn’t buy the ticket I just passed over P the all line and I asked around the people there were somebody who spend like 36 hours there on the sun no food no water oh just waiting and at the end of the line the I reached the borders the gates were

Closed and a lot of people was waiting to open the border and it was like uh in a refuge Camp I think a lot of people under the sun they were old people I see I saw an infant that should be around 2 months old okay and he was in the arms his

Mother under the 40° sun or 42 W and the police doesn’t even put something to give border was open but they opened like in for 15 cars in every hour and then everybody uh has to do the PCR test mhm and yeah they don’t let me through

Because they said uh as I’m a European Union citizen I can enter only from Bulgaria we just bought some beer and try to find a place where we can swim and having a barbecue that’s we are sleeping under the bridge just like when we started our trip really enjoy sleeping under the bridge

There it’s like Shadow there no rain and stuff you can use quite good for camping I am preparing the fire other guys preparing the food Melanie is taking a bath we will have a barbecue with beers today Melanie is preparing some fruit salad we’re drinking the beer I prepare some nice

Sauce and Daniel is the barbecue Master preparing chab I assume it will rain today super windy like there is raining for sure oh ready for food pasta with vegetables Chachi corn fruit salad barbecue morning the night was really awful last night there were some people passing by few groups how many groups two

Groups two twice 20 people around 20 25 there were a lot on I I think I think they they thought that we are also migrants or I don’t know but but uh once one of them was um was uh because I was awake I I um sit uh

Up and one of them is come just really close look into my face like really close and St do told something in arabish for me and I said um I understand you and he seemed really surprised okay probably I think that we are migrants too I don’t

Know as he just told you last night two or three groups of people passed by seems like they’re immigrants and trying to follow the river Daniel wasn’t able to sleep anymore for me it was also hard because of all the wind I couldn’t sleep was too loud I made

It I catch the tractor and he pulled me up I was able to hold for like few hundred meters but it hurts a lot my arms hurt a lot we just reached the hospital and try to get the covid test done cuz you’re not sure if you needed to

Enter I don’t know if we need It so how was it yeah we Spen with Doctor yeah we were talking to five doctors but they didn’t want to to take a covid test so no covid test no stamp so no no no negative test I really hate it it’s awful we came here 12:00 now it’s quarter past

3 we wasted lots of time we tried to get test done with five doctors none of them really knows what to do no none of them feels responsible everyone pointing at each other they told us go to Private Hospital and so on blah blah blah after a long

Discussion we decided to go without the test and online it’s written sometimes like some states need a covid test but there is not written which state needs covid test so we don’t know if Germans need covid test or not we have 30 km ahead of us if it’s

Not working out we have to cycle all the way back 30 km again Camp here get a covid test done and go again I hope it’s working out so far all of them just pointing at each other and say go there you can get it done and they say no go

There oh if all this will not work we have to go to Serbia because in Serbia you don’t need it and from Serbia enter to Bulgaria I really enjoy the scenery Daniel is singing Hungarian music I hope we will make It Oh Mellie tell us your last Macedonian thoughts let’s see if we have to sleep here tonight or not so leaving the country will be easy but entering the next might be difficult we don’t know yet here let’s get my BL hello thanks for watching the video if you like it give it a thumbs up if you want to know about future updates subscribe and click the Bell turn on notifications you will also find us on Instagram and face Facebook every day there will be stories news and more recent

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