Every man dies, not every man really lives... Wild Child
24-10-2007
turn your steering wheel corner after corner and get delirious .....
Haai my dear friends,
time is running and as i speak we have already made it till Bulgaria, Plovdiv better. Since the last story we went to busy Split and caught a ferry to Brac, an island in front of Croatia. It was marvellous and exiting. Sunshine and plenty of places to camp wild, right next to the shore. It was hot and a good time to get aclimatised for the heat we are going to meet on our trip.
We spent a good 4 days of island-adventure and it was time to get pajero( my jeep) seaborne again.
We made it as far as Mostar and here we got silenced by the many destroyed buildings from the past war , really completely ruined buildings like librairies and schools more then 200 years old. The bridge of mostar is hope for these people and it must stay like that!!! How to describe the sense of this town???? We could sleep next to a house in the fields and the next city was Sarajevo......We entered along snipers alley...... boehoooo
Again the leftovers from many nice buildings , but this town is recovering very fast and it feels like walking around in brussels,relax but with a certain mood. When I came back to the car, somebody had tried to break into it , but we were lucky, some other cars had smashed windows.... But this event gave us some time to think about a better safe parking and hiding everything in the back when entering cities. We ended up for a picknick at a house outside town, and there i could repair my lock. We were friendly invited and quickly food and beer were served. What a hospitality. Even when we went for a walk, we got invited by people along the road and soon our heads filled up with booze and food. What a hospitality.....
The road goes on and we made our way through 10000 bends and bumps in the road to Durmitor national park. But these people know shit about waste handling and just throw everything into rivers and forests. No good hey!!! The weather was less good and we ended up in a countyhouse with friendly people, again serving this some kind of 'rhum', hot stuff... But the next morning was even better. First strong coffee, mixed with this rhum, then a few 2 liter bottles of beer served with smoked beef and porc, finishing with a self-made movie of the nat. Park. we had to say goodbye or .... you know...
A short visit to the park and then we went into the mountains with the jeep and after a few hours we passed 2 meter thick snow and a vieuw like endless. Again invited at a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, and here we tasted fresh made goatcheese and of course the rhum.. .. ... ..
So, you see, come and taste it..
On the road again, I made a big mistake, probabely because of the booze the last days, and we got to the border with Albania by mistake. Should i do this country???? Why not, we'll be carefull.Hup and into Albania, bad dusty roads and very poor people. The cities remind me off Marocco and the landscape was wunderfull. We had a good 150 km ahead of bad, bumpy roads and in the middle we stopped at a house for sleeping in the garden and later on the evening champagne was served, can you imagine that???? So no more worries...
Albania was over and in front lies Kosovo. We had to buy a seperate insurance of 50 euro's for the car and we made a big deal of it at the border, but nothing to do about it, it's the fool on top of this country to blaim.... moneyman
Into kosovo and lookes like montenegro again, full of industry and wellness.But on the road many army soldiers , tanks and military bases. But a safe feeling.
On to Macedonia, a cheap country for fresh fruit and vegetables, incredible. ex. 1/2 kil fresh strawberries from the field: 0,5 euro.....mhhhhh.....
Driving Through it is hard, roadworks, bad roads and 1001 bends..... pffff but we have made it again to the border with Bulgarije.
We visited Rila Monastery in the mountains, really worth to see and the next day we tried to climb Maljovitza 2729m high and I made it to the top. A good 1500 m rise and with my feet in the snow on top. Today we explore Plovdiv city and the next story will be from sunny Turkey.
The taste of the road is on my mind and we've already had a great experience .. ... The journey started in the ardennes in Belgium and quick we wanted to head for Germany.
There i met an old friend i met in La Palma years ago and the spirit was great. He had a story about sailing around timeless seas and far away countries. The mood for travelling became even more great. We spent a nice night in a old castle on a hill and were turning time a few hundred years back .
Back on the road and past Munchen on to Austria. Once the mountains came closer, a undesireable feeling to climb some came and a day later we started turning the heads to a mountain-top i had been focussing on. We made it till 1945 m but because off thick snow I had to return and leave this enormous top behind. Sometimes its better to be precautious and dont risk too much.
We drove through incredible landscapes and clean rivers. South is the main direction and for the fun we passed one hour in Italie and drove to Slovenie.
This is stepping back 50 years into time and the hills are so green and full of life. Small towns full of farmers and pretty narrow roads for my way to big Pajero, funny sight...
We met some very nice older people were we could spend the night on there peace of land .
Almost immediately they served very nice coffee and the local brewed alcohol, weeeew hot stuff, but a warm feeling when you wake up and 5 min later served . So, slovenian people know hospitality very well.
We are very happy to experience all this and the next country was Croatie. Here we spent our second night on a camping, yeah, we try to go wild camping or at farms as much as possible,saves great money... But the biggest surprise was that it was a naturist campsite, hehe, old naked people running around and staring at us, little dressed people... no comment.....
Yesterday evening, after looking for a peace of ground we ended up at a farm where we got pancakes, yeah, delicious pancakes.......nice people really..... Before we went to Plittvice waterfalls and waaaaaawwww, this is a must see for anybody who comes to Croatie.
But on the way to these, we drove through some forests full of mines, from the war, some years ago and it gave us a sudden feeling of freedom being destroyed for all these people. And when we looked better around you can still see many houses full of holes,because of being shot at, destoyed and abandoned afterwards..... something to think about..... Even when we got coffee from on old lady you could still see tears in her eyes because of loosing much family in this stupid war.
Today is one of our first days of rain and till now we have had sun every day and sometimes even hot....something is wrong with nature, beleave me........but till now it was in our favor..
So, the spirit is good and the road ahead is nice. Next days we go to Split by the sea and take a ferry to one of the islands in front of the coast. Pajero on the boat, hehe.. He has been on a train also, somewhere in Austria by the way, funny way of transport over there.
>Then on to Mostar and its nice bridge and sarajevo for a visit.
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