Tag: June
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Four Days to Istanbul
Four days from Alessandropolis to Istanbul. 390 km. Four days of rice fields, sunflower fields, wheat fields, some old houses, beautiful forest cemeteries, empty children’s playgrounds, old men drinking chai, heavy wind, and even more fields. Over time, the rice fields became fewer, wheat predominated, and the sunflowers did not yet smile towards the sun…
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Break Days in Greece
When we cycle (particularly during the early days when I wasn’t so fit yet), I sometimes feel like a machine, or an engine really. Fuel in—energy out. No fuel in—no energy out. We sleep, we eat, we cycle. Then, there are also break days: We sleep, we eat, we don’t cycle. Break days are some…
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Across the Balkans
In my naive (non-)expectation, I was somewhat surprised by how much and how immediately we noticed differences when crossing a border from one Balkan country to another. I probably shouldn’t have been surprised, as I can also notice changes immediately when crossing Switzerland’s borders. However, I always assumed this was because at least one of…
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Croatian Coast
On the second or third day of our journey, back in Switzerland, Thomas said that it might never get better than here. I remember that this statement confused me at the time. Sure, the cycling path was excellent, and the forest was beautiful. There was a train track next to us, and Thomas likes trains……