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out the road, leaving channels strewn with
large rocks. At the same time the track starts
getting seriously steep, requiring first gear
in the bends and pulling on the handlebars
– my deodorant is soon being tested to the
limit! I should really turn back, or at least
warn my friends not to follow me. Then on
the road below I hear the roaring engines
of the KTMs. So onwards it is. Luck not only
follows us on the dirt road, but stays with
us as we unexpectedly arrive in a paradise
called Shën Gjergjit – St. George’s Monastery.
Shën Gjergjit is abandoned and the quadrangle
is overgrown with waist-high grass.
Outside the monastery walls, the Adriatic
stretches out like a dark velvet carpet as far
as the eye can see. Corfu looks so close