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Are you still going?
Hi Mickba

I wondered whether you are still planning to make this trip? If so how is the planning going, as I am contemplating riding to Bulgaria via France, Italy, Greece, in May.
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Romania won`t adopt euro curency until 2014 ... Bulgaria maybe in 2009-2010. The exchange rates for Euro->Ron you can find here : Info financiar . Alsa 1 leva is about 0.5 euro.
The major roads in Romania are decent, but they pass through every village posible with speed limit of 50 kmh ... There are many radars in towns/villages so speeding would not be a good idea Outside town there are usualy no radars.
Be carefoul to secondary roads as they are very bad ... Potholes everywhere ... But for a XTZ 750 i think would be ok I would recomand you Transalpina (links Sebes to Targu Jiu), it`s an unpaved road that goes over 2000m in altitude. Also, Transfagarasean is ok (links Curtea de Arges to Fagaras).
In Bulgaria the roads are ok, maybe a little worse than in Romania, but again, for an enduro-touring bike they are ok. The police in Bulgaria is a little less opresive from my experience , less radars ... A problem in bulgaria is also the cyrilic alphabet ... But on major roads they have signs in latin alphabet so it`s ok. With a gps won`t be any problem ...
As for clearing customs, now with the entry in european union it goes quite fast ... The only check your passport ... From my experince the crossing from Romania to Bulgaria didn`t took more than ... 30 secons ?
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Just to share my recent experience in Romania (11 days) and Bulgaria(only 2 days):
Border Crossings - no problem, only needed ID (german)
Police - no problem in Romania, have rarely seen any, was never stopped. In Bulgaria I've seen lots and was once pulled over, obviously because I'm on a bike. But when they saw I'm german they laugh and wave me on. From Romanians I've heard there's a lot less hassle with Police in Bulgaria since it's EU now.
Roads Romania - bad to very bad in the north (still lots of fun!). OK to excellent in Transylvania and somewhat inbetween in the south.
Roads Bulgaria - were all OK, but I'v been only on major roads travelling through.


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Hi Mickba

I wondered whether you are still planning to make this trip? If so how is the planning going, as I am contemplating riding to Bulgaria via France, Italy, Greece, in May.
Hi ptr10001,

When exactly are you going? I'm planning to ride via Romania/Moldova to Odessa at the very end of May/beginning of June. I'd be pleased to meet up with someone.
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We are travelling down to Romania in a few weeks time, does anyone know what the campsites are like down that way? Is it better to look for sites or is wild camping ok? Any info would be great.

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We are considering the same thing.. How long are you going for and when? And what ferry are you thinking about taking? And will you ride directly to Romania or are there stops planned? Sorry for all the questions, but we have left the planning a bit late and are trying to see if it is worth it /possible on a two week trip.
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Hi Xander, we are sailing from North Shields to Amsterdam on Sat 26 May and returning Sat 16 June, so we have 3 weeks. Originally we only had 2 weeks but were still looking at same trip but spend less time in Romania. Our plan (I use that word loosely) is to ride through Germany into Poland, have a day or 2 around Krakow then down towards Romania. We'll spend 4 or 5 days down there and then travel back up perhaps through Hungary/Austria/Germany. When are you travelling? We are planning to camp all the way.

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Hey Debz,
The exact dates are still to be confirmed.. but we have about two weeks holiday to take in a three week period (25th June i.e directly after the HU meet to 12th of July).. or we might push it to the end of july which would give us much more time..... almost 3 weeks..maybe that would be a better idea come to think of it..

We would also be camping.. but want to spend as much time as possible in Romania (big place and never been there before).
If it turn out that we are in the same place at the same time we should meet up for a !
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We are travelling down to Romania in a few weeks time, does anyone know what the campsites are like down that way? Is it better to look for sites or is wild camping ok? Any info would be great.

Debz
hi, I am going to do the same thing. Did you get any replies fro your question? If so could you pass the information on to me?

My email is martinblizard@btinterent.com Thanks Martin.
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Hi Martin

I am setting off on Sunday for a trip to Romania via Greece & Bulgaria, so if you want I can check it out as we will be mixing camping & B&B's.

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to ROMANIA.If you want to know something write here,and if i konw the answer i'll help you.RIDE SAFE !
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Hello Martin and Martyn,
I'm another Martin, and I run a small camping and caravan park in southern Bulgaria. See Sakar Hills Camping
If you are traveling through Greece to get to Bulgaria, I would recommend two campsites in Greece, one at Kavala and the other in Alexandroupoli. Both are right by the sea, and are clean. The one at Kavala is signposted from the motorway and for the one at Alexandroupoli just take the first turn off signed for Alexandroupoli, drop down onto the old coast road heading east and you will find it in some trees on the right side of the road, on the edge of Alexandroupoli town, at some traffic lights.
From there if you head north you will reach the bulgarian border in about 3 hours. To get to us turn west towards Lubimetz and from Lubimetz continue west on the E80 for about 8 km until you see our signs.
If I can be of any more practical help, e-mail me through our website, or on martinjeffes@yahoo.co.uk
Good luck with the trip.
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