Escape to Athens
Apr 27, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY: Dick Underdown
Thanks to Covid, I had almost given up any hope of a foreign jaunt by bike. An initial trip along the Adriatic coast had been hastily rearranged as a shorter trip to Bavaria. But then that too was dashed when transit through The Netherlands was deemed impossible. Finally, after two years of not riding anywhere we spotted an opportunity.
I had hired a bike from Motorent in Athens previously, and we soon had a CB500X booked for a week. It was waiting for us at the shop, good to go with a pair of 22-litre cases (slimline to enable filtering) and a 40-litre top box. I attached my phone to the bars for GPS and we were off.
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