SUNDSVALL,SWEDEN TO HELSINKI ,FINLAND and RIGA,LATVIA

After I got my new engine ,I put it on and make few hundred kilometers test ride around Sundsvall.After that
I was ready to move on.I ride from Sundsvall to Gävle to visit my brother Ture and after that I ride
to Carolina MC ,Stockholm.Carolina MC have their traditional autumn party.At saturday me and my brother Fredde go to Harley shop (Full House Garage) to see Mighty Midget racer.Mighty Midgets
are old racing cars which has water cooled knucklehead engine.They use methanol as fuel.
Really cool machines!Saturday evening before party we have nice dinner at clubhouse and our brother Björn got his full membership to Carolina MC.Congratulations bro!
Sunday I take a ferry from Stockholm to Helsinki,Finland.I have been few days at home now.
Very nice to see my lovely wife Sanna after 3 months.I ride to Riga at  saturday and met our friends Martins and his lovely wife Agnese and their son Rudolf there.It was very nice 300 km autumn ride,about 10C warm.Late saturday evening we heat up their sauna and fresh up at cold water jaguzzi.That was nice.Best sauna outside of Finland I think!
I am leaving my bike here and Martins put it in container and ship it to Ushuaia,Argentina with theirs and Pers bike too .Martins and his friend are following us to south america.Thanks for helping.Tuesday morning I will fly to Goa ,India and try to rent Royal Endfield and make some road trips there too.
I hope Per is following me later.So thats the plan now,keep in touch,ANA

Mighty Midget

Old Knuckle at Full House Garage

Me and Mighty Midget

Old Big Flathead at Full House Garage

Pasi and new happy member of Carolina MC, congratulations Björn!

Nice dinner at Carolina MC,thanks

SUNDSVALL ,SWEDEN

I am waiting my new motor here in Sundsvall Sweden now.I am expecting it comes this week,I hope.
Meanwhile I have time to meet my club brothers and friends here .We were visiting our friend Anders Nygren from Delsbo last week.He and his son open my broken motor.It is in very bad
condition.It did make any sense to repair it this moment that`s why I buy new one .
Anders is owener of FLATHEAD POWER ,company which makes cylinders and heads for old Harley flatheads.If you have any problem with old Harley flatheads he is the MAN who help you.
We also meet our old friends Bablo and Monika there.Bablo has real cool knucklehead chopper.
Monikas speciality is shaman healing,check out www.shamonika.se

How about big flathead cylinders,made in Sweden!

More flathead cylinders

Flathead heads,also made in Sweden!

Machining flathead cylinders

FAST ADA!

Master Nygren from FLATHEAD POWER

Bablos and Monikas Chervolet Apace

Bablos cool Knuckle!

We have also been fishing with our brother Ture,who come all the up here from Gävle with his lovely wife Jane,thanks it was good to see you.Last saturday we have small club family dinner at ADAS MC
clubhouse.That was nice, lot of members and friends show up with kids.

Fishing with Ture and Per

Master chefs Per and Kasper

Family dinner at ADAS MC clubhouse

Same party

Shining happy people!

Good times

Yesterday me and brother Mackan visit Matte Palms garage,he has cool drag racing car and he is building Yamaha chopper too.
That is why I have always love Sweden,it does not matter where you are ,there is always someone
building something!

Mattes racing car

Small test ride

Our brother Fjalle has help lot of us with bikes,thanks bro!

Evas ultra cool wv trike at Fjalles garage

Fjalle and Per at work

Fjalles Triumph

Evas trike

That`s about now,keep in touch,ANA and PER

MAKEDONIA,KOSOVO,SERBIA,CROATIA AND AUSTRIA

After Greece we ride to Makedonia .Makedonian custom officer stop me and ask how much I have marijuana?I said I dont have anything,then he ask me to open saddle bags and start to check out.
Nothing found ,but officer said to me stay here.Then he walk to his office and stay there 1/2 hour.
After that he come back to me and ask why I am still here?I said that because you say so,then
he said ok,you can go now!Sometimes I just dont understand these custom officers.
In Makedonia our green cards didnt work.We needed buy insurance for our motorcycles from boderline.10 Eur 15 days.Roads are very slippery there.After boderline we just ride throu Makedonia to Pristina,Kosovo.We found small hostel Istanbul,which was very nice,just walking distance from
centrum.Double room cost 20Eur.Man who own the hotel was really nice,he make us food,let us park
our bikes behind hotel ,where was pool and bar.He tells a lot about history of Balkan countries.
We did have charcing problem at Pers motorcycle and hotel owener calls some people who are working at local motorcycle shop.They come to pick us up from hotel and we ride with them to their garage.We did have one extra complete charging kit with us.These friends help us to repair it.
After that they say that we can ride with you to hotel and we can drink something.They said
that they cant drink alcohol because they are muslims but if you like to drink beer it is ok with us.
So we go back to hotel sit down ,they drink coffee and we drink beer.We watch pictures from our
cell phones and talk about motorcycles.These men also ride motocross and make stunt tricks with their street bikes.very nice people.Thanks Ali,Zgjim,Berat and Gervalla.It was good to meet you.
In Pristina I like very much people who live there,very polite and friendly.They have 4 different religion there catholic ,muslims etc. and they can live there side by side without problems.
It is  paprika season there,every marketing place, you can see lot of paprikas and chilies.
After Pristina ,Kosovo we ride to Croatia ,take road side hotel and next morning we start very early
and ride to Wien ,Austria.40 km before Wien my motor start to make terrible noise.
We stop at shell gas station and I understand that my motor is badly broken now.We were camping outside of gas station in our tents.We put our facebook site if someone knows any transpotation from wien to Sundsvall ,Sweden.After few minutes our friend Jamppe informed that there is one man from
Finland ,Ahti Isometsä coming to Austria with his van.I moved my bike to Fischer`s Harley Davidson ,Wien.
Fischer`s Harley Davidson is big Company,they also have american restaurant.Very good food there.
All the people very nice there,we recommend,visit there if you are in Wien.We did have few extra days before Ahti come and pick me up so we decide to take hotel from centrum.
Wien is very nice town I liked very much.Good food,wiener schnizel,saussages etc.We visited also war museum and crime museum and we take turist bus and ride around the city.Also we ride with tram.This is about it now.I am writing this in Wien now.Tommorow I take my motorcycle to Sundsvall,Sweden.Take a motor away and ask if someone can repair it.When bikes are ready,then we send them to south-america.This is the way it is now,stay strong.ANA and PER

Wien is fashion town

Some girls from USA we meet at Wien,Austria

Meeting some friends at Fischer`s Harley Davidson,Wien,Austria

Paprika season Pristina,Kosovo

Marketing area Pristina,Kosovo

Camping outside gas station 40 km before Wien,Austria

Having good time with our friends from Pristina,Kosovo

Happy hostel Istanbul owener from Pristina ,Kosovo

Repairing Pers bike with our friends from Pristina,Kosovo

Pan makers in Pristina,Kosovo

Hello,you

Fischers `s Harley Davidson Wien , Austria.We recommend!

GREECE

After Turkey we take ferry from Chesme,Turkey to Chios Greece.Chios is small island just 50 minutes ferry trip from Turkey.We found very nice small hotell there and spend two nights there.
Owener let us repair motorcycles outside of hotel at street.We were there two days because it was impossible to have ferry tickets from Chios to Patras.Reason was that in Chios everyday comes migrants from Syria like 300-1000 with their small boats.Two weeks ago there was no migrants at all.It is not so nice to see.Most of these people need help.Old sick people,babys are crying because they are hungry.They carry all what they own.Not so good hygienia.There was also people from Syria living in fancy hotels and before that they have already live in Turkey like two years but
now they want to come to north Europe because of better living.The day we left Chios,police
ask us to move our bikes some where else because there was some kind of religion meeting
next hotel from ours.We see when priests start to come to their hotel,lot of police and security men was there too.In the evening our ferry leave Chios around 23.00.When we ride to ferry we see lot of these migrants from Syria.The ferry was more than full booked.We sleep at sleeping bags at deck.
We also meet one couple from Italy,Genny and Francesco.Francesco also come back from Iran and Armenia with his motorcycle.Genny fly from Italy to Turkey and Francesco pick her up from airport and they ride together back to Italy.It was good to meet you!After ferry trip we ride 400km from Patras to Agiannis,it is small village and there was nice hotel/camping area near the beach.
Hotel room for 2 people costs 25 Eur,not bad.We where only 3 nights at Greece ,not so much to tell about it.Keep in touch!ANA and PER

Thanks Genny and Francesco .Ferry from Chios to Patras Greece

Agiannis,Greece

Agiannis Greece

Flower Power at Chios Greece

Priests have meeting at Chios,Greece

Ferry from Chesme Turkey to Chios Greece

Leaving Chesme ,Turkey

Beach at Chios,Greece 

Black eye angel,Chios Greece

BACK TO TURKEY

After Iran we ride back to Turkey.We spend one night at Agri,same hotel we had last time.
Next morning we ride to Ercincan also same hotel Meva we had last time.It was very nice to stop
there people regonize us immedetly and wellcome us.Feeling little bit like coming home.
Next morning we ride to Kayser.On our way there police stops us.Little bit over speeding.
They did not give us any tickets just say that take it easy.After Kayser we ride to Mersin.
After we booked hotel and shower ,we walk little bit and find one nice restaurant.We sit there outside
and I saw one girl was drinking red winw.I ask from waitress if I can also have glass of red one?
She said that they have red wine but they dont have no more wine glasses.It was the only one at next table.I said that it does not matter you can put red wine any kind of glass and she did.After 15 minutes she come back with real wine glass and ask me if she can now put my red wine in wine glass?Ofcourse I said but where did you find it now?She said that she walk to local shop and buy
one!That is service!At same restaurant at our table there was one cat sleeping at chair.We try to
move the cat but cat was so stubborn and refuse to go anywhere so we let the cat sit with us.I understand that cat was host and we were just visitors.
After Mersin we ride the coast road to Alanya.I call to my old friend Paula and ask if she was there
but she said that she is in Finland now.Paula give me phone number to one man from Finland who is
living at Alanya with his wife.Henrik and Maria are their names.We meet these lovely couple few times.One night we were watching when our famous skijumpper Matti Nykänen was singing at Harrys bar.That was something.4 days we spend at Alanya,it is like turist place.Not so much to see but it was nice to relax there,go swim at merriterian sea etc.After Alanya we ride to Antalya because
there was Harley Davidson dealer .We buy new battery to Pers bike and oil for motorcycles.They
also make Pers front brake plates straight.At another side of the road where Harley dealer was,there was company called TT CUSTOMS.They also make custom bikes at Turkey!
After Harley shop we start to ride and we understand that Pers bike is not charching anymore.
We take one more night at Antalya.Next morning we think what to do,we have battery charger with us ,so we think to start to ride again.We try to find a ferry from Turkey to Greece.We see from internet that there is ferry going from Kasadas to Greece and it was .We ride there and there was ferry but it did not take any motorcycles or cars only passangers.We ask and they say that only ferries go from Izmir to Greece.We ride to Izmir and ask policemen if they know where the ferry is going to Greece?
They make few phone calls and exlained to us that ferry goes to greece from Chesme .So we needed
to ride 100km more and booked tickets to Chios,Greece.That was very small ferry.
After all we see quite much Turkey.Coasts at Black Sea and Merriterian sea are totally different
world than inside land of Turkey.After we were in Alanya there was also some bomb attacts one day later.It is not so nice when people are fighting against each other.But thats all now.
Take care,ANA and PER

Fake Police car

Kayser gunman

Alanya

How about bananas?

Luncbrake place before Alanya

Merriterian sea

Stubborn cat from Mersin