Koptik to Tirane by Bike: Cycling to Albania with a French Ultra Distance Runner Named Alan
Koptik to Tirane by Bike: Stage four of my Eurasian bicycle expedition. In which I revist my favourite Balkan city.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon when Alan and I crossed the border at Koptik to pass from Montenegro to Albania. We had just cycled what I believe to be the finest road since departing the UK. After a relaxed lunch on the beach at Petrovac we began a two and a half hour ascent from the coast into the clouds of the searing hot mountainside.