The end of the trip approaches but the day starts with bad news: stomach cramps.... The wind sends Wouter downhill so he decides to cycle anyway and shortly before midday, in Novo Selo, that makes for a visit to perhaps the most charming - or doltiest - theme park ever. Fortunately, the mayor's warmth makes up for a lot. Wouter's stomach, meanwhile, is still not doing well, so he decides to shorten the stage and spend the night in Plovdiv. He takes a rest day there during which he explores the city and gets talking to two Mormon missionaries. The next day his physical condition is better and Wouter drives across the Thracian plain to Shipka where it turns out a huge storm recently passed. He helps Tatjana clean up her garden and she advises him to drive past the Buzludzha monument. The last stage of the trip goes from Kesarevo to Shumen, where Wouter looks back on a fantastic bike ride.

Early rise and breakfast at/under a waterfall. Wouter has learned his lesson and is trying to get ahead of the heat. But when the wind blows him across the Bulgarian border, reality has caught up with him. A real forest fire is proof of how hot it is. In Rupite, Wouter is sent to the temple of a psychic and in Melnik he ends up at a wedding party that lasts until the early hours. With a heavy head, he has to go to Bansko the next day and that means through the Kresna gorge, which is life-threatening for cyclists. In the ski village of Bansko, Wouter meets Stefan, who is there for the Digital Nomad festival. The next day, the wind blows from the west-southwest: past the Belitsa bear reserve where Wouter meets Bulgaria's former ‘dancing’ bears. The episode ends at the idyllic Lake Batak.

The wind blows Wouter to the southwest. It becomes a day of confusing contradictions as he talks successively to the mafia, a painter of mosques and Orthodox monks. Wouter gets to spend the night at the Bigorski monastery after which he crosses the border into Albania. There he witnesses the meteoric development of the ‘Thailand of Europe’. On the pyramid of Tirana, Wouter is serenaded by a real opera singer and a hospitable family invites him for Easter dinner in Elbasan. He finishes in Berat, the city of a thousand windows.

Wouter says goodbye to his family and leaves by train for Hungary. He finds the end point of his previous journey and there the wind sends him to Mohács where he ends up at a bizarre festival. Through Slavonia, he drives to Vinkovci in Croatia where he ends up in an English pub via a red phone box. There, Wouter experiences a legendary evening with war hero Steve, his wife Dragica and sergeant Mille. The next destination is Srbac in Bosnia, but in Slavonski Brod Wouter bumps into his ultimate football hero, Josip Weber.