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    EuropeGreece

    Meteora. Suspended in the air

    by Ewcyna 17 July 2016
    written by Ewcyna

    the view

    The French drink a lot of juice, Germans like eggs .. Today there was hardly any visitor from Germany so nearly all hard-boiled eggs are left but yesterday all were gone. There is a lot of visitors from Russia, but mainly families, that defy the stereotypes of rather tipsy from the morning party animal. Bakery pastries should be sweet not savory - no one really wants pita with spinach, but already milk pie with cinnamon disappears quick. Household members, which now I count it anyway help it to disappear LOL.. Only, to get such a sweet pastries in the bakery you have to before 7.30. Heavy, thick Greek yogurt with a spoon drawn in a large container eat all nations - is delicious. Children, of course, choose Nutella or chocolate flakes with milk, which is for me I brought up on the scrambled eggs for breakfast and cheese will never understand. Guests are generally nice - probably the quality and price of guesthouse makes the selection . Only once a visitor from Israel looked very unhappy with the content of breakfast table, but Yiannis - owner of the guesthouse gave him extra tomato or cucumber and winked at me, "They're all there such, do not worry".

    Kalambaka at the foot of Meteora
    Sunset

    I get up in the morning at dawn and my eyes hardly open. Sure I want to sleep more, but it's nice to watch a day in Kalambaka, small town at the foot of Meteora, unusual rock formations of looking like suspended on the top, almost in the air monasteries in the Greek mainland wakes up. I start work at appx 6.30 make lots of coffee, jump on a bike to buy bread and finish cleaning around. 11.30, which makes it the usual 4-5 hours a day for board and sleeping which is inscribed in the idea of ​​volunteering so popular recently. In the evenings,, when it is colder I am exploring the surrounding countryside and today I'm off , so finally I could sleep and write something. I'm here for a week now and how much more will stay I do not know. Probably not for long, because the domestication gene of mine is kindda damaged. I am fine here, some luxuries areound but I need my tent.

    In June, I returned to Athens. Stay in Poland was interesting, much longer than planned and full of twists and turns, which incidentally did not end – I was longing though fr my bike which I left here, longing for living on the road. .

    Widok na Akropol

    Akropol

    While planning, therefore, my life I thought, that, however, I will not take a ferry to Turkey because it is a tad too expensive and I just go around by land. And that really always wanted to see the monasteries in Meteora and it might just be an opportunity, to come here. On workaway.info site I did not looked in for half a year now and somehow I googled it now. Supposedly hard at this time of year to find a place to volunteer, but this time Yiannis, the owner of bed-and-breakfast guesthouse in Meteora replied immediately. Come, take a look, You see if you like it he wrrote. So, I have been here for a week now and became responsible for breakfasts from A to Z – call me breakfast MASTER CHEF-I.

    I chose sunday as a day of departure from Athens , because it is always a few cars on the road less. The first kilometers on the bike a little bit of catching balance, but it turnes out, that such things you do not forget. No problem on flat roads, less smoothly uphill of course. Outweighs the latter because Greece is a mountainous country. There is admittedly the coastline, but although willing I would jut plunge into water (Oh yes!) when I think about making my way through the lines of hotels, rumbling of music and filled with people and villages with search of safe and quiet corner for the night that I already have enough. In the mountains the is always a place for me and my tent and people are authentic.

    the view

    At the supermarket in the town of Lamia a man started to talk to me, his name was Manfred. tiny, sunburnt, slim blond guy. Manfred is German, in his sixties and from 20 years he's been living on the road. Here and there, he is traveling with different means of transport - recently it is .. quad. Barely visible under the vehicle and lay panting hard (nomen-omen) Eva - his black dog, best friend and defender at the same time. "Come Eva, we are going to the park!"Says, When I accepted his offer to show me the place, where peace can wait out the worst hours of the day or 13-17.00. The temperature rises 40 degrees in the shade, air stands and burns and all living creatures are hiding in the shadows hardening motionless. As a living being doing the same thing. Every day I stop even 4 hours per day, life in the body and mind somehow enters the 18.00. Life has created me an unexpected scenario, who brought me to Greece in the middle of a hot summer, to cope with,.

    Fortunately Hellas as long and wide in every town or somewhere along the way there are springs of water. The water is cold and good, and by the way can be to effect fast laundry. he splashes himself, I am kidding fresh bottle, sometimes even I cook something or do salad, because the food in taverns is too expensive, I relax and go further.

    the view

    After 16tej Manfred rises from the bench. "Sun smaller, time to work "states. What kind of job I already know. The last six months he spent in Athens in the area of ​​Omonia Square (generally not very interesting spot) in a Pakistani store. 20 Per day for 10 work hours. Here it is different - Manfred sits at the supermarket, placed next to reluctantly leaving from the bench Eva and between them lies the cap on money. "Yesterday was a good day, at the time I saved 15 euro. today poorly, only a few "says. "I do not have much output, in this age already I do not want to work. Germany? Where there! I tried to go back in the past year, but I endured some two months. Constant visits to offices, still something they want, interrogated, bid to appear.. it's not for me. I left and I live like before – laughs. I'm here for three days, I already know I plan to move somewhere. I do not like people recognize me, I do not like to zadomawiać. I do not know where I will go, because everywhere I. I sleep here bench, Eva and so disarmed, but most often I go somewhere in the mountains, and I have the world at his feet. I do not have a tent and other things because I stole a few hours left on parked car in Athens. But I deal with it. Eva has all the vaccinations and dog papers needed to travel, accompanied me from Azerbaijan – I would not find a better friend from her.

    We say goodbye after a few hours, I set off with plans to acquire the kind of a small, but still the mountain range, which I want to wtachać evening. I set off with the aim, despite that, Manfred philosophy that is very close to me, But I would not ever have to sit in front of a hat shop.

    The air is thick, T-shirt sticks to your body and something that feels through the skin, that can be a storm. I check - and yes, rains are announced for the next day, So I hope, with I already at the bottom. Dark grabs me, but just before the summit, and I do not want to descend in the dark, holding up their tent I suppose preventive measures – considering, to the tent did not stand in the open air is on average possible CO9, I put the bike at some distance from the tent and I cover with foil. Hak knows where and what the lightning may shoot?

    I fall asleep with hope, that the storm will miss this place, or in general it will not be. Vain are hopes, however.. At about 1 They wake me up at night loud murmurs. No, I do not want to hear, it seems to me.. and these flashes are sure of going through cars, a lot of truck rides at night, after all.. Mrrrrrrr ... wrrrr ... now it's my sky growls over his head. What should I do? There's not think of, I sit in the tent and enough. I assume earplugs, to shut out those grunts and I cover my eyes shirt, not to see lightning. I can do. I am adding to this a couple of Hail Marys no, but so heart pounding like crazy.

    Storm does not want to leave, but the friendly spots and good walking along until the morning. The next day, the sky is blue as if nothing had happened, and only more crisp air tudzież surrounding puddles testify, that something happened here.

    the view

    I roll tired until about 11tej, two kilometers to the pass and then a dozen km descent.. yeah! When I pass a parked truck driver waving to me with a smile. Odmachuję. After some time at the gas station I see the same car. Kierowca zagaduje, when he finds out where I go to the Russian. Vitaly is a Bulgarian and runs from 20 years. I saw you there at the top, I have. Coffee can do? such cold, in Greek – asks.

    In total, why not. I throw eyes truck, and I think, that as the cab from both sides are open and people close to the station it is probably safe? Vitaly entertainment me coffee and then make a second breakfast. We talk a bit about the hard life at the present time .. it's nice, but thank you, because I have to go, remove some more kilometers before it gets too hot - I gather and raise. But we in the same direction, so what you go, I'll take you! The offer does not interest me, especially, when repeated it is somehow 10 times. Vitaly may not be dangerous, but importunate and the end does not give up. Surely you do not want? But why? I feel like temples pulsate me and wonder, if he really thinks, that would I desire to have sex with unwashed old man? Is the hell have duplicate, these trucks stereotypes and spoil nice meeting two people, which often they are on the way? The fuck hedgehog.

    Meteora is Greek suspended in the air. Every day of the week lift up my head and I can not get a good look at this extraordinary work of nature in which man a superhuman effort put in their two cents. Byzantine monasteries (and there are still six active here) They seem to barely keep the giant, vertical, looking like a cleaver cut in half kilometer high rock. This is one of the most beautiful places on earth have seen.

    This is another nail in the coffin of tourism, They will again be canceled reservations because people are afraid to travel” He said on bad news from France Yiannis, and already the news from Turkey to podłamał. Eh, once it was tourism, Germany came.. Now we have somewhere, but there is still a lot of French. Further it is difficult to predict what will happen, wish to talk.

    the view

    It is difficult to him, another hard, I am also not easy - say, that the issue of predictability attained the zero state. That proved to be, that in September I have to be back for a while in Poland.. One of the reasons is that, that my tenants filed a denunciation of renting an apartment is now actually my only source of income (Someone might need to rent a nice studio apartment after renovation in Lower Mokotów in Warsaw? Free of October.. ). In addition, the doctor will also gladly watch me again, ordered to appear for 3 months. For a long time I feel like I bounced off the walls and shaking her over and over again. Until then suspended as the monasteries of Meteora, I look forward to the time, when a glimpse of the acceptance of all the judgments of fate.

    Linked:

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    17 July 2016 3 comments
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  • EuropeGreece

    My little Greek holiday

    by Ewcyna 12 August 2016
    by Ewcyna 12 August 2016

    Well it was great to work with you, but you were here such a short time, Only two tygodnie..phiii said Yiannis wincing, when he pronounced the last number. I was leving the place Meteoras with regret, for there is room by all means…

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    Alimos

    by Ewcyna 31 January 2016
    by Ewcyna 31 January 2016

    I collect a long time, Before execute the daily movement. I pass through the frame leg and try to push as, that for the first time to sit on the saddle and not fall back on their feet. No…

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    Greece. Goddesses live here

    by Ewcyna 9 January 2016
    by Ewcyna 9 January 2016

    – Excuse me, Madam, I can no longer look after your bike. I have to go. My eyes grew round as saucers and I felt my jaw dropping down over a shoe, which I did hold in my hand. There was a tip…

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Dear! In the coming weeks I will again have the opportunity to share stories from my journey along the Silk Road from China to Turkey. Several shows are planned in Silesia, in Gdynia and Warsaw.  Some are paid, others are free admission.
I cordially invite everyone, not only bicycle twisted.

7.09 (Thursday) godz. 16.30  Skoczow (province. Silesian), Electric Theatre, ul. Mickiewicz 3 
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11.09 (Monday) godz. 19.00 Katowice, NAMASTE Travelers Club,  ul. Jan Sobieski 27
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Brittany is a little different France. No vineyard Brittany is a little different France. No vineyards here, but loads of castles, grazing cows and sheep, mostly rocky coast and wind. Pray so it blows at your back! 
I have planned for years and finally got there this summer. Lots to explore left there still though! 
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The Lavaux vineyard area stretches between Lausann The Lavaux vineyard area stretches between Lausanne and Vevey on a terraced, steep northern slope of Lake Geneva overlooking the peaks of the Alps.  A beautiful lake and even rows of lush green vines always create a beautiful sight, but I was wondering why is it a UNESCO site?
 "Oh, just millionaires started buying up the land and building houses there, that was the only way to protect the place," explained Anna, a solo cyclist friend who lives nearby and whom I finally met after years of Facebook virtual acquaintance.
I left Geneva looking at the sky with justified concern, because the last days here there was a storm after storm.  Fortunately, during the ride along the lake, it cleared up and we could soak up the beautiful views.  Just like on Lake Garda, the views here are luxurious.  I passed the spas of Thonon les Bains and Evian - the latter is known for its bottled water brand.  Here I could drink it at the source for free, apparently it does well. It was also time for the last bath.  It is difficult to provide any comment to the curr, in the evening I found myself on the Riviera, because that's what they call the shore between Montreaux, Vevey and Lausanne.  The density of people and buildings plus the most crowded week of the year and the long Swiss weekend did not bode well for accommodation, and that's exactly what happened.  There was one big disco on the coast and at the campsites, apart from the disco, were packed.  Like it or not, with no chance of wild camping - scared of being fined too - I went back 12 km to one of the earlier campsites. It was packed, but I didn't care as I put my tent up at midnight.
The decision to skip cycling through southern Switzerland and the higher mountains was not easy, oh no.  I returned to it several times, but the weather madness was the reason.  So if you are looking for a flatter Switzerland, I recommend the trail along the lakes and rivers, i.e. the northern part of the country. 
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Neglectig Instagram continued.. this photo is a fe Neglectig Instagram continued.. this photo is a few weeks old, but well.. do many wonderful places visited the last months mostly due to #housesitting that it's hard to remember. After Lago di Garda I enjoyed Piemonte and Val d'Aosta and having a few weeks before another assignment I decided to go to north of France. Started with a nice bicycle path along La Seine river. Idyllic landscape, multiple castles with the impressive medieval fortress of Château-Gaillard overlooking the meanders of the Seine, flanked by limestone cliffs.. cycling in France can get as easy and enjoyable as that .. Pushing my bicycle through the chinese Tian Shan feels like an old, unbelievable story here
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- What are you doing here, are you traveling alone - What are you doing here, are you traveling alone?  asked Marco in front of Lidl seeing me packing my groceries. It's still the cheapest market in Italy and sometimes I buy there, although the amount of packaging plastic they use makes me sick. And it was in this market in Peschiera del Garda that I heard the biggest mix of languages for weeks, which made me even more surprised that anyone paid attention to me at all.
 - Do you want to sleep wild?  There are places by the lake, but not here. You can stay at my place if you like, but it's 15 km away - he added. 
Not this time, I was going the other way. 
When at the end of my stay in Tuscany I received a housesitting offer by Lake Garda, I thought to myself - why not?  I was here only once by bike. I've also decided to cancel housesitting gigs in Spain for other reasons.
The lake area is kind of luxurious, a nice change.
This is the largest lake in Italy, an extremely picturesque place.  As befits its post-glacial origin, it is long, the circumference is 160 km and in the northern section it bites into high mountains. Turquoise water, green trimmed lawns and high mountains on the horizon.Very touristy, but it's enough to cycle 5 km from the coast you embrace rolling hills, vineyards, crops and it's very normal and still beautiful.
But nature is not doing so well. Water level in Lake Garda is at its lowest in decades. In the face of the worst flooding in the Po Valley in over years, it's like a paradox. The lakes aren't just views but large bodies of water used in agriculture and power plants. The German press warned their readers,thousands of whom come here on holiday: "Lake Garda is so low that diving is dangerous."
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I don't like numbers and don't count on them in th I don't like numbers and don't count on them in the summary of my trip around Sardinia.  I don't know how much I pedaled, what is the sum of elevation gains and stuff.  But wait, I know something! - I spent 16 days there and saw only part of the island. 
This place immediately won my heart, although I would rather avoid it during the season.  The beaches are insane, but it was too cold to swim. And too windy, although if you're lucky the wind blows in your favour. And maybe the prices, it's more expensive than on land.  Hills and mountains nearly everywhere.
Adventages? Nature, vast space, people, traces of indigenous people who once inhabited the island.  Mysterious Nuraghi Towers.  The enormity of traditions that are cultivated for the Sardinians, not for tourists. 
But let's finish describing my tour. I reached the town of Bosa, probably the most charming Sardinian town, where colorful houses are located on the mountainside and there is a castle on top of it. I haven't discovered whether it's a custom or whether painting houses is for tourists, but the fact is that in many Sardinian cities houses have facades in vivid colors and so is Bosa. I walked around the streets of Bosa a bit, ate ice cream and started rolling a few hundred meters up. Instead of the main road, I chose a smaller, more winding and with a greater dose of climbing, which usually provides more attractions and scenic impressions.  You wander through small villages where people say hello and ask where you are from.  Thanks to this, I came across two local celebrations on Sunday, which are related to religion, and on Monday the third one.  Phew!  The most interesting were tractors in floral styling, which later took part in the procession.
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The winds will blow as they want my mother used to The winds will blow as they want my mother used to say - and in Sardinia the winds usually blow counter-clockwise.  When I reached Olbia on the east coast of Sardinia, I should have started cycling west. However, I was too keen to see the feast of Saint Efisio in Cagliari in the south of the island, so I decided to go there by train and disturbed this windy order. I got off the station before the city to find a quiet corner behind a bush for the night.  From there I went to Cagliari.
I saw the amazing fiesta and crawled out of town slowly.  Islands are islands, you can always count on wind blowing there.  And it blew right in my face.  I did 20km that afternoon and didn't enjoy it at all.
 I had an ambitious plan to conquer the interior and the east of the island, which is famous for its beauty, and it was.  Huge spaces, greenery, grazing cattle... we like it that way.  Extremely steep climbs and my bike loaded after the winter did their job - two days of struggling with them reduced my urges to push east, which is considered the most beautiful part of the island.  Willingly or not, after seeing the UNESCO site which are the ruins of the Bronze Age village in Barumini, the people of Sardinia called the Nuraghias, I climbed even higher and then went back to the sea to Oristano and packed the train back to Olbia.  Just to go with the wind along the coast. I wanted to see some of this emerald sea.  So I did, cycling the Costa Smeralda. The sun was shining beautifully, I didn't feel like taking a bath or staying in the sun. It's still too cold.  But the views alone are enough for me.
Nature are Number One in Sardinia.  The architecture was unobtrusive, not to say ugly.  Surprise. After seeing the gems of Tuscany and Puglia, this was a bit of a disappointment.  But, there are beautiful murals everywhere!
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On my last, or penultimate, weekend in Tuscany thi On my last, or penultimate, weekend in Tuscany this spring, I was to wind my way through the roads of the Chianti hills. Yes, that's where the ones famous of wine-making (in the store ask for "kianti", not "cianti") and the place of the beginning of the l'Eroica bike race. I was there 10 years ago, and all in all, the hills around me are plentiful, but just to refresh my memory, stretch my calves and catch the first sun? I don't live too close, the cats had company over the weekend so I thought - well, how about a two-day trip? 
I didn't want to pack all the lodging equipment for one night, but two accommodation search engines had bad news, however - in an area of 150 km x 100 km for the night from Saturday to Sunday there was not a single vacant accommodation! Mount Amiata. On the second one the cheapest offers for more than 200 EUR.  The long Italian weekend has begun (April 25, Italy celebrates "Festa della Librazione" - Liberation Day). On top of that, the region is mega-touristy, and there is no camping apart from Siena. Let’s pack uwellell. 
Set off slowly like a tortoise ... past Asciano I entered, in the sense of pushed, on the famous white gravel roads, along which the route of the Eroica race leads and then even more slowlier!  I was occasionally passed by cyclists travelling light and on E-bikes, because that's the only way they cycle here. Envious. Eroica roads are for eagles or I need to revise my physical capabilities. I don't know what killed me more, the steepness of the roads or the number of motorcyclists on their roaring machines, but by the evening I decided that I've had and seen enough, I'm going back. And those dozen kilometers of return home in the dark - because nearly no vehicles anymore, listening to the sounds of the night, were perhaps as beautiful as the Tuscan and Sienese landscapes in spring.
And in a few days, a new cycling stage.
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"Christmas with yours, Easter with whoever you want", "Christm "Christmas with yours, Easter with whoever you want", "Christmas with the family, Easter with whoever you want" - according to this saying, Easter in Italy is often spent away from home, with family or friends.  The beginning of the picnic season, one might say, the welcome of spring.  Children are given chocolate eggs.  Accommodation places are booked long before Christmas.  Although you can't generalize - in many homes everything from A to Z is cooked.
The Easter traditions hold strong in the south of the country, in Sicily and even in Puglia, but although I was hoping to participate, unfortunately I was not able to be there at that time again.  The processions that take place on Good Friday, are very solemn and gather hundreds of participants.  I really like to peek at local customs, but in Tuscany there is not much to see 🙃, unless watching hundreds of visitors would count as such.  It's interesting that when I searched (in three languages) for "Easter in Tuscany", I mainly see offers of accommodation and trips.  When I searched for "Easter in Puglia", the search engine shows mainly religious rites and local traditions.

This year spring is late, the trees are blooming, but the leaves are still on hold. Three days ago we had frost at night, it's supposed to rain during Easter. In fact, it's just about to start.  Yes, I've seen what's going on with the weather in Poland, I'm not complaining! 

So I jumped on my bike before this rain for a pre-Easter bike ride to Trequanda. I haven't been there yet this year.  This is another insanely picturesque road with a view of Monte Amiata and Crete Senesi.
 I enclose a handful of photos to whet your appetite for Tuscany and wish you a good Easter time.  Rest and live it as you like.
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