Day 61: Zavoj, Macedonia

Stats... 88.06km in 5hrs 46mins. We sneaked past Amanda at 6.30am as quiet as a mouse. We climbed the road for 40km to the border for Macedonia... country number 15! There were some steep climbs taking us to approx 1,100m. We saw our lives flash before our eyes as a humungous black very fierce looking and barking dog that was thankfully chained up went for us! Straight after which we found the best dog stick we could, mostly to make ourselves feel safer! At the border we were situated on the west of lake ohrid and we needed to get on the east side and could not decide whether to take the North our South route. After a flip of the coin we headed north. This turned out for the best as we began descending on a lovely sweeping road for 15km and then the terrain was flat into Ohrid town centre. We found a market and a perfect shade stop under a tree on the grass and relaxed for 3hrs! Half debating whether to stay in Ohrid we managed to get up again and continue for another 15km assisted by a great tail wind. The scenary was mountainous, covered in trees and the road snaked the side of a river. As we were losing light we set up camp on the river edge and experienced our first wild camp of the trip. We played with the bikes, had dinner with chilled beer from the river and studied the maps to ensure we were on track. As darkness fell and Al overcome the fear of bears, snakes and wild dogs, we had a great nights sleep with the clear sky, sparkling stars and fire flys dancing round the tent like christmas tree fairy lights... wow.