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Day 11: Berat to Ioannina, 10 October 2024
Design: K-Design
grilled sea bass and chargrilled vegetables. a worn wheel
bearing on Roy Stephenson and Peter Robinson’s venerable
landcrab needed attention. luckily, they had a spare on
board, and with andy Inskip and charlie neale on hand,
disaster was averted.
The run to the Kakavia border crossing gave us a last
taste of albanian hills before we entered Greece and made
for the night halt at the Hotel du lac congress in Ioannina
on the shores of lake Pamvotis. The car park was full of
activity, Shane Houlihan and andrew Boland were looking
to solve an issue with the master cylinder for their clutch,
while David long and Paul Bareham’s Talbot had struggled
through the day without a fully functioning trip meter.
Text & photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
the road turned towards the second Regularity from Salari.
Driving over the mighty Kurvelesh range the high winds
and altitude saw John llewellyn and Rob Dance hunkered
down with their clipboard in the lee of their van at 1157m.
This was a challenging section and an impressive way to
call time on our albanian sojourn.
Once we’d cleared the final control the pressure was off
and the rally threaded its way through the humblest of
villages and the grandest of canyons before dropping to
sea level and the Sarandë Time control.
a visit to the 16th century lëkurësi castle, with its view
over the Straits of Otranto to the island of corfu, preceded
lunch in the Restorant natyra, where we were served
David and Jo Roberts, 1968 Triumph TR250
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