Cycling London To Bangkok #6 | Cycling Down The Balkan Coast

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In this episode we ferry it back onto Mainland Croatia and cycle down the Balkan coast. We bike tour through Croatia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. We eventually reach the Albanian border.

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Music:

Here it Comes – TrackTribe

SPRINGS OF DECEPTION – Destiny & Time

Time Slips By – Go By Ocean / Ryan McCaffery

Western Spaghetti – Chris Haugen

Bicycle – Reunited – Kevin MacLeod

Flying – Track Tribe

Alive and Sleeping – Jeremy Korpas

The Doors – Touch Me

Angeline the Baker – Nat Keefe with The Bow Ties

Folk Tap Heart – Unicorn Heads

In Memory of Jean Talon – The Mini Vandals

Sleepy West – JHS Pedals

Song For Michael – Magic In The Other

Slowly Until We Get There – Joey Pecoraro

We’re cycling from London to Bangkok we have cycled through England France Belgium the Netherlands Germany Switzerland Italy Slovenia and you join us in Croatia we’re raising money for three Charities on this trip Islington Food Bank Chesterfield FC Community Trust and calm campaign against living miserably

Yeah if you want to donate to our chosen Charities they’re three Charities that we that are close to us and we feel like can do with some extra support so if you want to donate to these Charities um there will be a link somewhere we want

To raise £10,000 by the end of the trip um so yeah if you can donate that would be great Cheers Cheers thank you enjoy the video I hope I’m really holy crap oh my you feel it I think I’m okay my wait till you try and stand up oh my

God this is our view and this is the location this is where we slept last night this is our Airbnb all to ourselves we live here now and these are the stairs that lead up to the bedrooms it’s one of our best sleep so far it’s actually one of our best locations

Because it’s still it’s 9:00 a.m. and it’s cool we usually sweating sweating cobs right now but we’re we’re we’re fine anyway watch these watch these Swifts it’s our final Fair before we get back to the mainland we have just left left silver a really really wonderful Island we’re back on Mainland cor now is the road we were cycling on yesterday about midnight um we pulled over for a second and as we pulled over we came in here um and there’s a sign which literally says no camping and we pulled up and there’s just like a million people

Camping Camper vans cars you name it um so we thought let’s just sleep right here Dan’s still asleep um it’s about half 8 in the morning I’m like oh he’s getting up now he getting up he’s running where I am life on the road is is definitely getting tougher and tougher there the

Gaps between supermarkets are getting longer we’re also going about a week between a bed um we we there’s no more cycle coost no more warm showers anymore we are paying for a combination every Saturday it’s it’s getting tougher but we’re we’re Surviving Just cycling our way into siic siic now there goes our L not far to our place now bit of a bit of a chill out in Subic and then tomorrow we hit the road again looks like a beautiful place though how you feeling I’m I’m um finally a bit more refreshed and recovered

Yeah after our stay in cck cck cck yeah we uh our one paid accommodation for the week the one time we have a bed the one time wash the clothes wash the clothes have a shower first shower in about a week yeah official shower well yeah shower I mean we’ve cleaned ourselves in

The sea in the ocean yeah but doesn’t really count sometimes 100 km to split now couple days take it easy and then what Bosnia by the end of the week yeah come on Bosnia for a night Come on B I reckon there’s been some sort of forest fire Wildfire because see all the trees on this hill in front of me they’re all super super brown and all the trunks seem really dark and there’s no there’s no green on the hill back there there must be thousands of Acres

Of burnt land Burnt Tree look on the right it’s really tragic and there’s something really in my nature I think in human nature to look at that and just be sad all these trees to dead pretty sad to see it’s not a pretty sight at all these things affect real people and

Real communities look at this sign you can’t even read it this is beautiful what ride we cycled up a hill and slept under a 5G Tower I think ants were on me last night here is the sleeping spot and here is the Location there’s an island over there tiny Island kind of mad very mad we are making our way to split today in 30° conditions but there’s a bit of a breeze so it’s not too bad and to be fair we’ve cycled in 35 and upwards of that so drawing the European

Heat wave in our in our time in Italy so it’s it’s actually quite cool in comparison to what we’ve had smooth riding plain sailing to be fair enjoy in it some of these cars overtakes are a bit a bit crazy I can’t lie any more sunscreen we don’t take any

Chances out here I’ve got a bit of bad burn on the back the other day so no no more no more burning we ain’t burning today not me I’m French he already burnt in the first week and being extra careful so his neck was was peeling his

Arm his like arms were red he was going oh my arms my hands are red and all that lies it’s all just lies it’s all lies split today split today Montenegro by Saturday or Montenegro no oh weekend Montenegro bosal by Thursday yeah it’s a big week yeah very big week let’s do

It let’s do It How’s the cycle going amazing amazing views come around this Coast hot sweaty perfect it’s perfect it’s a tough one today really hot the current going two split with an airport Straight Ahead some beautiful mountains up top look at this we’ both got new glasses we’re looking fresh 2€ two each

We’re just cycling into split now the only way in is this very busy road so we’re taking it look at these mountains come on finally made it to split FP after cycling down one of the fastest highways I’ve ever seen the limit was 70 km an

Hour but these people are going a bit faster than That Good morning we have camped just on the coast beautiful views beautiful sunset as you’ve seen and we are just now having a early morning cycle into split which so far seems beautiful wow holiday mode activated chill chill mode On [Applause] To thoughts on split split’s really really beautiful amazing architecture these guys are funny back in the day these Gladiators protecting the city walls were probably the toughest men in the whole split today they’re just a bunch of clowns asking people asking people for money for photos it’s funny how Society

Changes so we’ve left split our next Target is Bosnia which we’re going to get in a few days not bad C is not bad another climb let’s go come On those CL on it’s fine it’s just making M sweat bur up my shoulders it’s so hot so sweaty it’s working hard for that heat I’ve never swea so much in my life honestly oh my I swear it’s worth ever drop a sweat it’s wonderful man it is absolutely wonderful riding tough one but a beautiful one we’re taking a little break we just did a bit of a mega climb look at look

Got to the top of this climb Now The Descent find a cafe fill up the water Camp you know the deal yeah let’s enjoy the downhill guess what I just felt a spot of rain no way a bit of rain just on my arm oh my um also just met these two French

Lads who are Psych couple years younger than us they s from Paris they’re also going to Turkey as well so good luck to them you feel the ring yeah let’s get down this hill let’s get down this hill so they were nice um good luck getting

To Istanbul and or turkey and the rest of turkey wherever you’re going yeah right let’s do it Camp here last night yeah beautiful beautiful forest all around and the mountains behind the Sun yeah it’s good one slept well apart from we had well we had a thunderstorm in the middle of the night rained a little bit then there was lightning but what 10

Minutes and it was over oh wow oh God good morning 10 minutes and it was over so it was all right now we’re doing 70k day for the next three days yeah to have a little stop out in Montenegro moneg three countries in 3 days coming up Croatia Bosnia Montenegro and back into

Croatia as well I’m back into Croatia let’s go three countries three border crossings three days [Applause] dad lost his shoe so maybe we’ll find his shoe somewhere his Trail lost my shoe cycling up here where to where we camped last night realized it had gone missing this

Morning I’ve just found it back retraced the steps and here we are is it wet still is it wet from the rain damp yes it’s clean now really he this square is insane it’s stunning it’s stunning man you got the the Swifts flying over like like Mad Men

They’re hustling away look at these look at their little nests look under the chimney look and they flying look got little babies up there under every roof tile there’s nests and there’s thousands of them unbelievable and another climb that’s the story of Croatia so this road is the d8 in Croatia takes us to de brnik in fact this road doesn’t end I’m pretty sure it takes us all the way South definitely to Albania this is incredible this is incredible look at this view beautiful view that’s the Adriatic Sea oh

My the best cycle of the trip so far oh it’s got some good inclines and some good declines it’s just beautiful it’s perfect it is amazing cycling this is amazing amazing man come on it’s so good the landscape has totally changed again everything changed Marsh lands more mountains mountains are in the distance

Now Big River wow beautiful Sunset so we slept right here last night look at this place it’s lit amazing we just brew a coffee Aston it’s astonishing the a Columbia with a touch of Guatemala tou of spicy Guatemala beans lovely also got some fried rice cooking up as well yeah man this is this is

Something the coffee was on much needed nectar after spending the night drinking at the kite surface Bar What I’m just living the Bulan life sat on my Bulan chair in the Vulcans well yesterday and this morning have been my favorite 24 hours of the trip so far a beautiful cycle followed by an amazing amazing place to Camp great evening as well in this bar it was really

Fun but a new country today we passing through [Applause] Bosnia we left this morning we we’ve left we’ve got no water because we thought the sign said drinking water but it didn’t it said no drinking water so unfortunately we’ve got nothing left and we we we used all

Our water on chicken soup and coffee so we’re full up but need some Water Working hard again yet another Clim the border to Bosnia is just in front of us about 1 km away so time for a new country nice we weren’t allowed to take a photo at the border so let’s get a picture Bosnia and heroina I like Croatia I reckon we’ll be back soon yeah an hour yeah less maybe

How long we stop in meow y the town is actually called Y and uh even other people have called it Y and we going through Bosnia so it’s kind of fitting that it’s called yam cuz we’re just yaming through it really absolutely beautiful views look at that boso don’t let us down wow Wow Yeah I am sweating so much it’s probably the most I’ve ever sweated in my Life we’re just leaving now now so we will be entering Croatia again and and then the plan is tonight just to stay around 20 km before de brnik C icle through the brnik tomorrow and then enter Montenegro the day after Tomorrow to brnik it’s our last day in Croatia there’s headwinds today which is very strange but Montenegro in 70 km the bridge into the brck underneath the Sunrise it’s about4 7 in the morning we wandered around the streets of De brnik and found out that one of the most

Popular TV shows of all time was filmed here doing half who would have thought game frone here and you know what else was filmed here cycling London to Bangkok yeah exactly um after this moment of the video all our cameras died and we legged it to Montenegro but using

This moment just to let you know that we have a patreon so if you want to support us further and see some extra content behind the scenes or whatever you can support us on there and we’d really appreciate it if you do yeah thank you

Uh back to the video you join us after a few days rest in Montenegro we are in Montenegro we had a few night to stay we needed a bit of a rest to be honest uh but now we’re going to hit the road Alia in a couple of days

And yeah we’re going to continue down the monegan coast a very small Ferry this morning well this afternoon now uh across just this little channel of water to a different part in Montenegro [Applause] we are on our first hill climb in Montenegro on the hottest day with had so far 37° apparently in some places in the country not exactly sure on the temperature here but it feels like it could be up there how’s the climb unbelievable I had too many chocolate

Biscuits so I started feeling a bit rough on the way up we’re about 320 M elevation standard for us really standard great view great view good view decent view there’s G is going up it’s cheating if you ask Me Woo love be dead end over that mountain Top’s falling or they’re doing something we just climbed was an hour and a half up here for this for a dead end man well our plan was to go through here just over this mountain and rejoin the main road just around

There um but this I think there’s been some sort of landslide if you look up here all the rocks have fallen so it might be it might be a massive backtrack all the way around we probably spent the last an hour and a half two hours getting to this point

Coming all the way way uphill so that’s life sometimes just look at this Landslide all the rocks from up there have come tumbling down there is absolutely no way through with us on the bikes really looks pretty uh pretty mean look all the Rocks down here wow that’s one serious

Landslide there’s no way through with the bikes look at these rocks in the way wow wow wow back we go we think there is a fork in the road on the maps there’s a fork in the road just back where we were not too far back so we might be all right

Right haven’t haven’t done the last two hours for absolutely no reason we are in the montenegrian mountains in the middle of absolutely nowhere um we’ve done a crazy climb up up the other side of the valley that we on earlier and now it should be a straight line down to the coast there

Are a few up hills along the way but in general we’re going downhill obviously to the [Laughter] Coast what a view is creeping into my eyeline on the horizon oh my gosh wow that’s Incredible Second full day cycling in Montenegro it’s 34° today well right now it’s going to be 36 Google says it feels like 3839 Google’s right goog is right yeah is right we got a big climb today then the game is the game monegro fellow 16 million Stoke City front page front

Page yeah Stoke are massive we’re going to the bike shop unfortunately probably Wheels got an issue got an issue ano’s done it again needs a it needs a little rests he’s some TC it’s working hard wow it’s about 40° this water oh man oh that b supposed to keep it

C yeah supposed to but it Doesn’t This guy’s mad this guy’s mad keep going keep going keep Going woo one of you this is what it’s about working hard great viewes come on well welcome to Bar don’t miss the sunset oh I’m not missing no sunset today we better hurry up then no we’re actually chilling for time 9k for what sunset in about 90 minutes easy easy easy easy

Easy we raced it to ensure we did didn’t miss the sunset but down on the beach there was something else you just couldn’t miss oh oh they did say naturist I thought they just meant [Applause] [Applause] nature yo I swear my camera just picked up the sunspots I’ll show you

Later look at the screen quick see those sunspots oh man yeah yeah yeah definitely just wait let me Zoom back in you see it look more yeah no I see it wow W Dam camera’s open was looking at Jupiter for a Second where should we go today Albania yeah yeah good idea that we are making our way out of bar in Montenegro it is 37° C 37 we just gone to uh Beach shower just to just to cool off um and we have about a 50 km cycle

To shocka in Albania to do today so one more border crossing it is cooking but we will we will make it as always look at this church that’s crazy Road are EMP back into the mountains we go oh oh yeah this is so much nicer than the coastal city

Honestly more peaceful here this is good I enjoy this a lot so what are your thoughts on our short time in Montenegro it’s been nice I’ve really enjoyed Montenegro yeah there’s no Flats in this country at all um it’s all up all down fairly cheaper than Croatia which is always a

Bonus and maybe used to challenge croa croa never had the Inland views like this yeah the mountains have been amazing I’ve really enjoyed looking at the mountains up here like almost Alps alpike mountains yeah it’s been good short short little cycle through Montenegro a place I would

Probably never have visited never if if I didn’t have this this bike here and my land’s bik there it’s true the bikes have given us an opportunity to cycle through countries we probably would never have Visited they’d given us views we’d never have seen sunsets we’d never have experienced towns we’d never have visited and a summer we’d never have had We had one last beer on the Balkan Coast before we headed Inland towards the Albanian Border thank you Montenegro far Chora currently cycling our way into Alania if you ask me that if you told me that 7 months ago I’d go what you talking about but here we are deep into this almost Albania that Skyline is is pretty epic come on come on goodbye goodbye time to cross the border

Into um Albania howo Albia and hello Albania welcome to Albania yes get in there another country we have no food very little water and no M and we have to spend three or four days in the mountain I think we’re officially nowhere officially in the middle of nowhere