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Ready to start
Pedals added and bikes checked
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Morning coffee stop
In the middle of nowhere, coffee, tea and cherries
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Vinnie loading the back up van
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Vinnie setting the bikes up
Every morning Vinnie set the bikes up, placing them in aparticular manner
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Gathering before the descent
We were transferred from Gjiroaster to the top of a hill with the added bonus of avoiding a busy road
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Mike and Dawn leave the accomodation
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A lone church on the hillside on the road from Sarande
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Ready to leave the Rhondos Hotel
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Non Electric group ready to leave the Rhondos Hotel
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The owner talks about his house
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No photos
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Inside Room
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Climbing up the valley
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Mike and Dawn start down the valley
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Farm Sotira
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Ancient burial site
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Partisan monument
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Cyclepath by lake
There was a long cyclepath next to the lake
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Boats by the lake
These yellow and blue boats were quite numerous
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Climbing past mosque
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Inside museum at Ancient burial site
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Exercising tree at Sotira
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Into Permet
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Top of the climb
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Laurinda and Richard start the descent
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Bruce in his Kings seat
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Top of the first climb for cyclists on the Giro d'Italia
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Vuno
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Strembuli House
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Richard Hill descending
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Piper statue in Permet
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Farmed fields
A patchwork of small fields often with different crops from cereals to fruit
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Cormorants on the lake
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Grafiti on concrete factory
An old abandonned factory had been attractively decorated
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Grave marker by the road
Quite a few as this photo show shows
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Simons cooling shower in Permet
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Jill Hudson descending
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Dhermi and the zig zag climb ahead
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Laurinda and Bob pass the honey farm
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Walking up to Zekate House
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Descending
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Douglas at the bottom of the descent
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Michael along the valley
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Dawn Read leaves Ancient burial site
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Along Pogradec boardwalk
Pedestrians/footballs/take care
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Julie descends past sheep flock
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DEscending to patchwork farmland
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Along Pogradec boardwalk
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View from the highpoint
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Jill along the valley
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Wendy at the bottom of the descent
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Bruce descending
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Partisan monument in Permet
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Inside Room
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Decorated Shelter
One of 14.000 built
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Michelle at the start of the long climb
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Inside Room
Orriginal stained glass
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Albanian emblem near Permet
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Bruce descending
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Michelle at the bottom of the descent
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Donkey and mountains
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Bob contemplates the view from the highpoint
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Out of Pogradec
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Julie cycles past graveyard
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Bob greets shepherd
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Lunch at Millenium Hotel
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Partisan monument
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Jill descends and mountains
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Julie at the bottom of the descent
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Descending
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Memorial near Permet
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Fireplace
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Building a new town
From up high you can see just how extensive this is
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Looking back from the middle of the climb
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Gjirokaster from Zilate House
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Descending
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Marcus at the bottom the the descent
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Through the fields
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Towards North Macedonia
After lunch we took a side trip to another country
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Marcus heads towards North Macedonia
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Matteo approaches Korche
Our guide
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Joanne descends and mountains
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Mike and Dawn at the bottom the the descent
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Michael descends
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Fruit and vegetables available
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Mike and Dawn down the valley
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Michael descends
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Joanna at the bottom the the descent
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Towards Erkeske
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Laurinda approaches Korce
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Through customs and into North Macedonia
Two custom points and no mans land
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Memorial at the top of the climb
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Giro d'Italia sign at the summit
Had we been here a few weeks earlier, it's just possible that ithers would be faster
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Into North Macedonia
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Jill and Bob approaches Korce
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Starting out from coffee stop
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Permet
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Robert and Michael at the bottom the the descent
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Julie descending
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Down the valley
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Dawn descending
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Spot Julie
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Douglas approaches Korce
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St Naum monastary
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Would anyone like to buy Richard's Mercedes?
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Turbine in tunnels Museum
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Douglas descending towards Vlore
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Wall paintings in St Naum monastary
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Michael approaches Korce
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Dawn and Wendy descends from Permet
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Inside church at Mollas
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Spring flowers
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Inside church
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Churchyard
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Joanna descending
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Leaving Mollas
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Marcus descends from Permet
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Julie approaches Korce
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Wall paintings in St Naum monastary
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Sheep and beehives
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Michael on presidents phone
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It was him taking the pictures
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Julie descends
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Small church
Another small church on the road into North Macadonia
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Shepherd tending sheep
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Horse and delapidated building
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Douglas descending
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Cooling down after a coffee stop
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Heading to Butrint
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Approaching the bridge
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Spring flowers and wheat
Spring flowers littered the rodsides in this area
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Marcus and Dawn descends from Permet
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Micheal Read shuts me in
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Douglas et al descends from Permet
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Spring flowers and wheat
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French graveyard Korce
On the town outskirts, an unexpected sight
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Built up with resorts along the coast
The coast is getting cluttered with lines of umbrellas
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Grasshopper
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Towards Butrint
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Lunch
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Leaving after lunch
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Marcus descends
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Bob checks out Mr 12th
A line of staues lined the boulevard into Korce
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Joanna heads for Butrint
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Spring Flowers
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Bike at the beach close to Port Palermo Castle
On the W/E a grand place to spend a few hours
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Inside Gjirokaster castle
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Triple door security
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Gjirokaster from castle
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Port Palermo Castle
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War Memorial from WW2
Recently construction
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Statue at Korce
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Dawn and Wendy along the river valley
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Partisan monument at Erseke
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Memorial at cemetary in Borove
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Joanna crosses the suspension bridge
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Evning Korce tour
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Names on the war memorial
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Mike descends into Himare
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Gjirokaster castle
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Gjirokaster castle
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Dawn heads down to Butrint
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Korce beers
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Jill along the valley
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Memorial at cemetary in Borove
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Evening meal in Korce
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View before descent
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Lunch Stop
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On the short ferry to Butrint
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Guns in Gjirokaster castle
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Exitting the ferry to Butrint
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Domino playing
A common site and game to play in these isolated bars
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View before descent at Barmash
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Marcus and Michelle head through the mountains
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Viewpoint
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Lunch at Butrint
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Street in Gjirokaster
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Into the Roman part of Butrint
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Marcus and Michelle head through the mountains
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Marcus, Michelle and Neil fill water bottles
A fresh water spring
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Checking out the terrapins
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Not far to Farma Sotira
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Group at Viewpoint with Neil
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Roman Baths
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Michael descends
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Bruce descends
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Roadside shrine
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Explaining the church
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Neil by the seaside gate
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Roman ampitheatre in Butrint
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Roadside statues
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Herded goats amidst the tourism
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A lot of new apartment on the edge of Sarande
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Into Sarande
So that where all the fairground Teddy Bears go