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    World by bicycle – a subjective guide for women

    by Ewcyna 24 July 2018
    written by Ewcyna
    Nice meeting on the way, Japan, Hokkaido

    Although in my life I met not that many, at least compared to men, cycling solo women, with many I am in touch with and I know, even thanks to WOW – Women on wheels, that in Poland and in the world we are plentiful.

    • 06/2022
    • 2021
    We arrange online talks with bicycle travelers. We connect from different places in the world – recently the Netherlands, German, Mexico, Switzerland, Spain, Great Britain and Poland. They are women with extraordinary travel heritage – they were probably on all continents.

    Update 2020

    Cycling alone is not and hasn't been for me, the act of desperation or any extraordinary courage – simply, I like to decide about myslef, I've been on my own all my life, and that's the way it is on the go, too. I am aware, however, that for many females espacially the beginnings might be difficult – and – although I have been traveling by bicycle since 12 years of age – for me in many aspects they were such as well.

    Because a lot of women, asks me what it's like to travel alone, or asks others and has doubts, does not know how to go about it, I thought, that I will write about my experiences and share the proven “tips that work” – about men, accommodation, bike repairs.

    Although rarely, sometimes I also travel in company. Laos

    Pushy men – how to cope. Don't you fet any proposals “not to be rejected (as we say in Poland)”?

    I'm sorry gentlemen, that you are going to the first fire.. life.

    Well, Of course, that I am afraid of this type of meeting and that I get such offers. I have no miracle prescription for eliminating such situations, but there are ways, to largely avoid them.

    the most important thing is do not provoke with clothes, appearance and behavior. Adapt your clothes to generally accepted rules in the country you visit (which, of course, does not mean putting on local costumes). It really helps and inspires respect. In Europe it may be less visible, but in many countries tight-fitting cycling clothing or bare shoulders and shorts can be perceived wrongly – as an encouragement, and the woman as “no impressions”. In Southeast Asia, I would feel extremely bad with bare shoulders – women cover the body fairly well – a tanned body is unpopular there.

    In Muslim countries, the rules are obviously more restrictive (even if the country is considered to be open to newcomers and their customs) arms and legs must be covered at least to the knee, najlepiej całe. W Turcji, to which many of us travel to, other rules apply to the liberal, the coast full of tourists, and others in the conservative highlands. I like wearing long pants in Oman, tak nie zdejmowałam ich niemal wcale przez cały Bliski Wschód, Kaukaz i Turcję (December – wrzesień przyszłego roku). Spodenki, pomimo upalnej pogody leżały w sakwie – tak było lepiej.

    Armenia by bike
    W Armenii upały były okropne, ale na szczęście wodopoje częste

    I do not know if that's the case, but only once, when I put the shirt “on straps”, and it was as if there was no country, where tourists are in bunches, i.e.. Thailand rode up to me on the eye barely a teenager youngster and proposed obściskiwanie in the bushes. Posłałam mu wiązankę a bluzki już więcej nie założyłam.

    W Iranie przepisy dotyczące ubioru kobiet są restrykcyjne, staram się jakoś im podporządkować, choć i tak zdecydowanie wyróżniałam się z tłumu
    • not accept invitations to drink alcohol together (somewhere along the way, men only), strongly discourage you. During more than 3,5 month-long stay in the Caucasus, I never once drank home made alcohol that is so popular there., that is “"cha-cha"”, that I was offered. Ale wino czasem sobie kupowałam i owszem 🙂
    Farmer, który mi pozwolił rozbić namiot u siebie w Azerbejdżanie wyjął taką butelkę do śniadania 🙂

    – no i choć to zabrzmi dziwnie, but … keep your distance and even dose smiles sometimes. I have talked to fellow solo travelers about it many times – yes, it is also read as an encouragement. What to do, after all, a smile is necessary everywhere, but here you have to rely on your own sense.

    What, however, if such a proposal is received?

    To imply strongly, that one is not interested. Scare the police. In addition, there is a fairly common belief in other parts of the world / outside Europe, that a woman is a woman from Europe “liberated”, who want sex any time of day or night, and no matter who does it. In Kyrgyzstan, Kyrgyzstan on horseback rode up to me and asked “how is my sex life going”. In the second sentence. In Armenia took advantage of a ride and a pleasant sort of driver, half the way he bragged about his family and grandchildren and then offered a hug “because nobody will see”. In Greece, this was how the truck driver treated me.

    Was there something wrong to me, despite the precaution? Yep, worst case is attack in Iran sexual (read the post if you want to know the details).. Twice. I ended up in Iranian court. Unfortunately Iran,  which is considered extremely friendly to foreigners, this is not a country for solo bicycle travelers. A woman on a bicycle is a different category there. My friend also had trouble there. Smaller, type of catching, smacking as well as very serious.

    Besides, I had a very unpleasant situation in my native Bieszczady, about which I write below.

    2. How to organize your accommodation, mainly “wild camping”? That is ACCOMMODATION in the wild while traveling by bike – rules

    In terms of accommodation, we have many options available.

    • standard or camping, hostel, hotel or agrotourism (depends on which part of the world we are in).

    Here, of course, I use common booking sites as booking.com, AirBnB, I often search on google maps in the area, where am I (In the last moment), sometimes on the official websites of the tourist information.

    However, I do not like to sleep at campsites in high season and choose it as a last resort. Sometimes I buy a day stay, (then I take a bath, piorę, I'm loading the equipment), albo sam prysznic i jadę “w krzaki”.

    • Someone – for example,. “per host” or through portals, e.g.. Warmshowers / Coachsurfing etc.

    You can even try to sleep “per host”, or ask for the opportunity to spread a tent on someone's yard / field / meadow. If this is someone you should ask area! In Europe, it is unlikely to be a problem, but in Asia. Tam często nie ma po prostu miejsca “under the tent”. I rarely do that. I do not like too much to ask, This first, besides, it is also not a guarantee of peace – sometime in Poland (Formula) I slept in the agritourism area and at night my host and friends came to my tent, after the party, they had fun walking around my tent and shining flashlights and I was thinking, I would die of fear. No, thank you, I'd rather hide somewhere, where no one will know about me.

    Ostatnio często stosuję “wiating”. Croatia
    South Korea, overnight with a view of the rice field
    • noclegi na dziko
    Poranek w Kirgistanie.

    This is my favorite way, but for many years it frightened me and it was an insurmountable obstacle for me. Yes, I slept in this way more than once, but always in the company of. Kilak years ago when going solo I spread a tent somewhere on the Bug, even though it was close to a farm, half the night I was shaking with fear and listening to the approaching dangers. Teraz wkładam zatyczki do uszu 🙂

    United Arab Emirates

    Before embarking on a trip to Asia, I passed through “course sleeping in the wild” with a newly met friend on the road – I just asked a cyclist I didn't know, whom I met somewhere on the road before dark, to let me crash wild with him and sell the patents. He was not at all pleased :), but we rode together for over a week and I learned a lot. I was going on a long and long journey to another continent / continents, but I didn't feel like sleeping in the wild. Now I see it as a fairy tale, but it was so.

    But most important is, to się ukryć. Winnice w Chinach.

    In sum – zgadajcie się z kimś doświadczonym w temacie i wybierzcie gdzieś razem na małe szkolenie live :).

    The main rule is – or show up (are you sleeping somewhere, bo kogoś pytasz o pozwolenie i jesteś tam oficjalnie) albo się ukryj. W praktyce najlepiej:

    – find yourself a seat yourself, for example,. entering the side road, not question him about it people
    – not to be seen (which is not always possible, of course,). Place you can select a previously, but putting up a tent as late in the day, ie how is the so-called. “dusk”. Wyłączyć lampki (yes, wzrok się przyzwyczaja i się widzi). Select a place like the least visible – choć wielokrotnie rozstawiałam się na środku pola jak nie było gdzie – wtedy rano Cię widać i trzeba się szybciej zebrać. After spreading the tent sort out a ew. necessary things in specific places and do not use a flashlight. Czytanie odkładamy do rana 🙂
    – and yet: be somewhere in sight, say 1 some holding that in miles. greater way – if you can go there (but can not be too close, dogs because they smell and they will bark…)

    It happened to me several times, that someone already came close to a chosen spots, and he saw me – w takim przypadku najczęściej w 95% zwijałam się i szukałam (unfortunately, because usually I'm tired and it's late) next. You never know what good will come to mind and whether or not he wants us to visit alone or with colleagues in the night.

    Piękny poranek w Kazachstanie. Po spakowaniu nie chciało mi się ruszać… Tam akurat krzaków brak, ale było małe wzniesienie

    It all sounds like a survival school, but it really is not so bad. Można się przyzwyczaić 🙂

    Na polach namiotowych tez nie zawsze jest najbezpieczniej. Park narodowy w Tajlandii

    I would add, że kwestia spania na dziko i bezpieczeństwa zależy od regionu. While traveling in Asia, I felt much safer than in Europe and also take it easy as never – at times, that I slept in plain sight, on playgrounds etc. in Japan or South Korea it's absolutely no problem. I liked to hide more, so that I no one “did not enter the tent”. I have a theory, that Asian (Far East)  the sense of security has to do with religion (Buddhism) and this, that there do not drink either so do not drink alcohol. Alcohol changes people a lot and this is already potentially dangerous.

    3. Logistics on the go – how to deal with alone?

    If you can't do it yourself, ask for help, although… it's hard for me, bo nie lubię prosić 🙂 Wiadomo, Coming from someone's safer and easier, However, because the person may be at the luggage while the other goes to the store, etc..

    Bicycle – in larger towns I always fasten before entering the store, in cities I also close the rear wheel lock. In the villages rather nothing of the above, there everyone knows each other. When I want to visit something, I am already looking for a place, where someone is and can take a look at (Pinned) - my bike. In other cases, related to such. with carrying luggage at the train station or from/to the train, most often I also hide the honor in my pocket and ask someone for help if someone does not offer to offer himself before. Only once have I been denied.

    4. How do you deal with bike repairs?

    washing the bike on the route
    In Georgia I spent the night somewhere in the vineyards and after the rain the ground was so clay, that on 150 meters both wheels are clogged. I had to take them off and wash everything. Well enough, there was a gas station nearby.

    Caution, note! I CAN'T DO IT. Shame to admit, I know. I know how to patch and replace the inner tube, adjust something.. I guess all. However, this is not the reason, da which would cancel the trip, I have traveled a large part of the world. You can always grab the opportunity and come to some bicycle magician (I mean I hope, that always ..).

    A friend, I was in the Philippines with a puncture. She didn't even have the right tools, to replace, ale jak się okazało, nie było to potrzebne 🙂

    Kobieca podróż solo rowerem – podsumowanie i przesłanie 🙂

    A woman traveling alone most often arouses in others concern and not the desire to harm. However, use common sense and don't underestimate the fact, that you are a woman. It really makes a difference, the further away from Europe, the more.

    If you feel, that cycling is something for you is worth a try. Go somewhere for the day, two and if you like it more. The main thing is to take the first step.

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2023 - let it be... A good one! Yet another. Wishing you all.
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"Natale con i suoi, Easter with whoever you want" - "Christ "Natale con i suoi, Pasqua con chi vuoi" - "Christmas with your family, Easter with whoever you want" says the Italian proverb, according to it, on the first day of Christmas, December 25, after 2 p.m., Italy stops. And then, the square was full of people, cafe bustle, conversations, drinks to warm up before a long afternoon at the table and then ... silence. Nobody. Christmas dinner is the main, most important point of Christmas celebrations, just like Christmas Eve in Poland. Santo Stefano day, December 26th is traditionally spent walking, sightseeing, outdoors. And now not a single car passed by me, but another cyclist did!  Fantastic weather - blue sky, sun, about 17 degrees.
Wandering around the streets, the kitchen windows are open and I can smell fried fish. Once upon a time I came to Italy for a holiday with $300 in my pocket (which I put aside all year long by giving English classes), which was supposed to last for 2 months. And it did. Sleeping under the sky as I didn't even have a tent, hitchhiking..the only food I had was bread with onions and Calve mayonnaise.  This mayonnaise was my discovery, and sweet onions too.  The main point of the day and the only luxury I allowed myself was a cup of cappuccino - before I ordered it, however, I walked around and looked at the tables of the cafes in which cups they serve them in - I wanted as big as possible.  Then I sat for an hour, tasting the remnants of milk foam with a spoon. The smell of tomato sauce coming from the open windows annoyed me because I was craving dinner so much. Today I remembered that smell from 30 years back.
 I have lunch at home, and cappuccino is also sometimes, thanks to your donations as well (I still look at the cups 🙃). And on the wall today I read the quote "Limits exist only in the soul of those who do not dream". But it was pathetic.  Let's dream, let's fulfill...
I wish you many good dinners and moments spent as you wish.  I was on a bike 😁.
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Today it's December 10th and it is a special date Today it's December 10th and it is a special date for me. On 10 Dec 2013, I locked my door, gave the key to the new tenant, packed the box with my bike into my neighbor's car and flew off on a trip with a one-way ticket. To the other side of the world, the Philippines. The decision-making process wasn't particularly long and was born after cycling Japan, but I had been preparing for this escapade for several months. Organizing my life, buying a new bike (to make it "easier" I went to Berlin twice in one week) and other equipment, buying various insurances, arranging vaccinations - each step meant a lot of time spent on choosing one option or another, finally packing life into boxes and taking it to the basement and flying to Manila with a short stay in Shanghai on the way. I chose the Philippines knowing absolutely nothing about it. There was a promotion on KLM tickets and this destination seemed to me OK. It wasn't that much OK as it turned out, but I still managed to spend there and even pedal for 7 weeks 🙂. For the first 2 weeks I was accompanied by my friend Sophia. 
Gees, it's been 9 years, and I can't stop! After the Philippines I flew to Burma, then cycled through Thailand, Laos, China.... I don't know if I'll go back to Southeast Asia, because I'm sweating at the thought of it, but going through my posts (quite clumsy, it's the beginnings of the blog) made me very happy. If you feel like it go to my my webpage #Ewcyna. What an excitement it was!
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Your life is like a fairy tale. You travel, you l Your life is like a fairy tale.  You travel, you live here and there, you visit places, you soak up the sun, something is constantly changing.  And then your plan falls apart, because somebody's plans for housesitting changed, cancelled, some moved and you end up with a huge unknown, 3-month hole in your resume, rental prices have gone up a lot, but homelessness is no stranger to you.  There is risk, there is fun, there is anxiety.  It's not bad, in two days you find a new place for a month, even better, you're supposed to be there tomorrow, maybe in a week, or maybe the day after tomorrow.  You have to travel 800 km.  Heavy rains so you sit on your ass, you will not play a hero and do cyclotourism now. What a pity, it was supposed to be a few days with the attractions of southern Italy. The plan for a long journey is in place, train tickets too, landslides and breaking the railway traction too, the railway is not running there, what to do.  You don't want to spend the night in Rome.  Maurizio, your host is away, you avoid hostels, especially on a Saturday night, and hotels are too expensive.  You love Rome and you hate it.  Too beautiful, too dirty, too loud.
Naples?  No thanks.  You don't want to spend the night in Naples.  Ever since you witnessed two robberies and that's on the streets of this city more than 20 years ago, you feel mostly dislike and fear.  Naples dangerous?  Your travel companion on the train with whom you chat a bit replies.  No… Naples is "molto bello" - very beautiful.  robberies?  You know, when they attack you in Naples, they do it somehow... gently.  And in Rome, you can still get a good hit on the head. Naples very beautiful. 
I wonder how it is in Milan, Turin or Bari.

My life is like a fairy tale. Back in #Puglia!
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It's been wonderful, mostly sunny 3 weeks #housesi It's been wonderful, mostly sunny 3 weeks #housesitting in #toscana
Autumn rain and gales have started but it's time for me to move more south.. (more rain predicticted). Still, just following the sun! 
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France. Castles and Roman architecture at its best France. Castles and Roman architecture at its best, wherever you pass there's something beautiful and surprising.
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But what Has happened already will not come back? But what Has happened already will not come back? It will! 
 I came to Paris for the first time 14 years ago.  It was my third flight with a bicycle and my first independent bicycle trip abroad (because I do not count group travel here).
 At the airport, I picked up my bicycle bag, my stuff and somehow I took it to the train or subway at the airport, which went straight to the center.  I got off at the station, through which in the evening there were hordes of people, and I reached ... the stairs to heaven.  Long, endless staircase, not an escalator at all.  I didn't like lugging it all upstairs.
 -excuse me sir, could you help me?  I asked a young man in French according to the rule to direct a question for help to a specific person.
 -my? (Moi?) He replied with great surprise looking from side to side, but that he hadn't seen anyone else there do he helped me to drag myself out.
 When we left, I saw IT in beautiful night lighting.  It is it, the famous NOTRE-DAME cathedral.  It was a magical moment, do you know those?
I put my bicycle together and cycled along Champs Elysees to Arc de Triomphe and on to the edge of the Bois de Boulogne, where the campsite was located.  At that time, I only had a paper map with me, fatigue was taking its toll, I was falling asleep on my bike and felt a bit pale, but luckily after 11 PM I got there, put up the tent and fell down to sleep. The next day I continued my sightseeing and on the third I set off on a bicycle trip to Geneva. Yes, cycling on paper maps.
I visited Paris several times since then.This time I was brought to Paris by FLIXBUS with an overnight course from Berlin.  Yes, after my vacation in France, I really wanted to come back here and found an offer of catsitting.  Here I am.
 It has already been and will be back.  Good morning France.  Bonjour!
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Ever since I saw the "Grand Traverse de Jura au Ve Ever since I saw the "Grand Traverse de Jura au Velo" trail, that is crossing the Jura, I couldn't help thinking that it would be fun to cycle it.  The trail has two options, it runs along the highest parts of the Jura range on the French side and is in many places a mountain bike trail.  I just chose to cycle the middle part of the route, climbing over 1000 meters is already a success for me.  But it's not about success and competition to me, in cycling, but about joy.  So it was a lot of joy! Especially my first rest stop with such a view!
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Is it France already? the cyclist on the bike aske Is it France already? the cyclist on the bike asked as we stood in front of some signs by the cycle path along the Rhine river. 
I guess so, France, because there are already French signs, I replied, but there was no FRANCE sign anywhere.  We didn't find it but we took a souvenir photo, and then we sat at the roadside tavern for a beer.
The idea to come to France has been growing in me for some time.  I was encouraged by the famous € 9 regional trains ticket promotion in Germany.  Somehow I didn't want to devote my time to Germany - despite the incredible ease of getting around this country by bike, I am not fond, neither speak the language nor like the architecture too much. I also decided to skip the Czech Republic to get to France as soon as possible - but it did not happen, I was very drawn to the bicycle path along the river Ochra.  It winds along the river in the shade of trees for many kilometers.  From Karlovy Vary I pedaled on 2 wheels.
The Czechs like beer.  I dare say more than in Poland.  They like to scream after drinking alcohol, that's what usually happens when one is drunk right? Anyway, tearing the snout took place there at every campsite I passed, so I bought a shower and went on, and put the tent up elsewhere. Easy. Pleasant.
 And in France, I feel great.  It's fun to understand the world around you, although still in Alsace everyone speaks German or a mixture.  It's fun to look at the shelves with the amount of products I love.  It's great to have municipal campgrounds for max 10 EUR.
I am being asked what my tour is when people see the luggage. Just for the sake of it, the random encounters and chats it pays to have it 😁😁🙃
Hope it will be more "fun". No idea yet where to go after Alsace but thinking where to hide tomorrow when the 36 Celsius heat wave comes.
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