If you cast your minds back to the point where the Sibirsky Extreme Project passed over the Brenner pass on the Austro / Italian border I met a chap called Humphrey who was cycling to China while Walter was making sure nobody had defaced the border sign with a Sibirsky Extreme sticker. We had a short chat about our respective journeys, I gave him a Sibirsky Extreme business card and that was that.

Well today Humphrey got in touch with Sibirsky Extreme HQ and had this to say:

Hi Jonathan!

I am the cyclist you met at the Italian border! I hope you are well- how did your trip go? I passed into Montenegro today and noticed a Sibirsky extreme sticker on the country’s signpost! Was that you guys?!

All the best

Humphrey Wilson

www.humphreywilson.blogspot.com

His blog makes for interesting reading as he is up to now covering a similar route to ourselves. He has also discovered the vicious dogs that I was plagued with every time I stopped to take a photo. Walter and Marcin didn’t encounter such difficulties as their bikes were lighter and faster 😉

While he has only encountered Montenegrin wild dogs mine were mostly Albanian. Officially there is no rabies in Albania, however, there are many stray dogs and they often travel in packs. Even if these animals are not initially aggressive rabies is very much something to watch for in the Balkans and care should be taken as there is no anti-rabies vaccine currently available in Albania according to the Federation of International Trade Associations.

We wish Humphrey all the best of luck and at his current pace he’ll be catching Walter up!