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Old 17 Mar 2016
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Border Info updates

Hi Mates ,Its very difficult to find updated info in the "country's travel & tourism depts websites". We will be riding in a couple weeks into Greece,Turkey,Iran,Armenia,Georgia,and going back to Spain crossing the Balkans and was almopst impossible to find any info out of the tv news!!!
So if any one are updated with that please help
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Two weeks!
If you keep up with the news you will soon see that the situation changes by the hour so wanting to crystal ball something that may be three weeks into the future is going to be pretty much a waste of time.
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Hi Mates ,Its very difficult to find updated info in the "country's travel & tourism depts websites". We will be riding in a couple weeks into Greece,Turkey,Iran,Armenia,Georgia,and going back to Spain crossing the Balkans and was almopst impossible to find any info out of the tv news!!!
So if any one are updated with that please help
Pedro
The only Greek border crossing that is troubled right now is Idomeni (map) because there is a big refugee concentration now.

Greece-Turkey, Greece-Bulgaria, and Greece-Albania are trouble free for the time being.
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Since yesterday, refugees/migrants started with road blocs near the border on Idomeni and on the official border crossing point. Road has been blocked for about an hour. Today, they are again on the road.
Some humanitarian organizations moved away from the camp because of rised tensions.
For anyone looking to enter into Greece from Macedonia, maybe is better to use two others border crossings: Dojran/Doirani and Medzitlija/Niki.
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I just came back from a trip around Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey.


Except for Turkey being empty with tourists, there is nothing special. The only border crossing that was busy, was busy with locals rushing to the sea. I'm talking about the Makaza crossing from Bulgaria to Greece. All the rest was normal.
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Interesting - I came through the Makaza border from Greece to Bulgaria two days ago and all the traffic was queueing northbound. About 2 miles queue, though of course I just rode straight round it all.

There were quite a few people on foot at the border itself.

Was the first border I’ve been stopped and had my passport checked at for a long time, except when entering my own stupid country (UK) of course!

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Hi Rachel_Norfolk,

Are you still riding around Europe at the moment? I'm about to leave the Middle East aiming for Greece then through Europe to the UK. Do you have an update on security? I'm assuming that with a bit of common sense its all okay (apart form Calais after dark).
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