Biking in Greece

Posted by The Madbiker on Fri, Oct 23, 2020

The speed limits in Greece are 50 km/h (50 mph) in built up areas, 90 km/h (56 mph) outside built up areas, and 130 km/h (86 mph) on motorways.

In Greece the motorways are just numbered, the non motorway main roads are just numbered and the smaller roads just have the names of the town that they lead to on the signs.

The Greek motorways and the non motorway main roads that I rode on are of a good standard, however service stations were few and far between. The condition of the smaller roads are generally good but there is always the odd exception.

The motorways signs have a Green background with White numbers, the non motorway main road signs have a Blue background with White numbers, and signs for the smaller roads have a White background with Black names.

Petrol at the time of writing it was about 1.70 Euros per litre.

I never saw any signs for speed cameras and I never saw any patrolling police vehicles.

Greece has lots of great biking roads but my favourites are in the Peleponnese peninsula which is to the South West of Athens.

To buy a SIM card for a mobile phone you need to go to a mobile phone service provider shop and you are required to produce your passport to buy the SIM card. When I did this the cost was around 20 Euros for one month of internet.