Used to protect farms, property and most usually goats no story about cycling in Greece would be complete without mentioning them. Having developed tactics for countering their menace I have become far more confident over the years so they have become just annoying rather than scary. However one incident did cause some alarm. Cycling along the only busy road we have been on, 4 large dogs emerged snarling from farm buildings ahead and ran behind a long fence towards us barking furiously. Why make all that noise I thought when you can't get at us. My feelings changed as they emerged through a hole right by us and charged towards me. Into attack mode I swung the bike across the road and straight at the lead dog while roaring furiously which made 3 of them turn back through the hole and the biggest to turn its attention towards Wendy who soon saw it off. What was particularly scary was that it occurred on a section of road on which large trucks were doing 50mph. Luckily it was clear but if one of those had been around...
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