Albània - Grècia - Turquia - Iran (Abbar - Nashtarud)

Motorbike trip from Catalonia to Iran passing through Italy, Albania, Greece, Turkey and Iran.

04-10-2022 - When I have finished breakfast and start to dismantle, the owner of the land arrives and shows me a thermos with tea, he offers it to me and I accept it.
After 20 minutes he comes back with four giant pomegranates and gives them to me, I make him understand that I can't fit them, he forces me to take at least one, it's worth a yes. We say which way I have to leave and later on the way I find pickup trucks and their car and a dozen men picking olives, I stop to have a chat and photos of course.
The road is fine but now I'm going to look for the secondary schools and before that I fill up with petrol because there aren't too many gas stations and today I have to do a lot of mountain routes and there aren't many big towns.
All petrol dispensers have a place to put a card, I don't quite understand how it works but the petrol station man always puts it in (sometimes it's outside and hanging by a thread), clicks some numbers on the keyboard and then puts the petrol, the price is the same everywhere: 3,000 take a litre.
The route first passes through the already known landscapes adding olive groves, everywhere you see people gathering olives and in the villages also olive markets.
The road is getting steeper and worse, there is a lot of track with some asphalt remains and in some places they are making it new and there are unmarked detours and I waste a lot of time looking for where I have the track. About 40 km before reaching the Caspian Sea you start to see lush forests of trees and the temperature is more pleasant.
I arrive at the Caspian, in Kala Chay, from now on everything is urbanized and with much more traffic.
I'm tired and stop at the first place I see that serves food, I'd rather eat fish but it seems they only have meat skewers. Today they are not chicken, they must be lamb.
A little further I see a hotel at the foot of the road where I stop, they ask me 6,000,000 I asked him for breakfast and he says there is none, I offered him 5,000,000 he accepted.
I'm so tired that I don't feel like leaving the hotel, I have the road on one side and the sea on the other.
I wash a change of clothes and spread them around the room. Sopo in the room with a salad, bread, cheese, apple and water.
Today the internet is not cut and works perfectly.