chennai

the last sign said it was still 22km to go. the next thing i knew i was already in the city.  it took me two hours to get to the center. nice and slowly, for safety and to have a look at some of the colonial buildings. i found a guesthouse of the salvation army… Continue reading chennai

goa

the first days in goa i stayed with some indian guys which where renovating their house to turn it into a guesthouse. i was their first guest and as construction was still in progress the line between host and guest wasn’t that clear. we had lunch and dinner with 10 people eating together sitting on… Continue reading goa

toudeshk

the road from esfahan looked like this for miles… …with nothing but a few villages on its way. it was nice to be back in the saddle without any mountain in the way for a change. after arriving in toudeshk and the already normal procedure of asking a handfull of people for directions, some phonecalls… Continue reading toudeshk

the first snow

it was a quite uneventful journeyuntil the sunrise when we could see the landscape and the little snow on the side of the road. in the background were snowcovered mountain tops and from inside the bus it looked lovely. as we arrived in kayseri at 8 in the morning with 6 degrees outside the view… Continue reading the first snow

olympos

because of the stops on the way and 2 flat tires i didn’t make it to olympos that day and arrived the next morning. 2 weeks before there was a big flooding and you could still see the effects. it is a strange sight with its treehouses, the unpaved road leading through the village and the… Continue reading olympos

hostel life

in the evening we cooked a few times and enjoyed the view from the terrace during dinner. these are johannes from berlin and paul from birmingham in the tiny kitchen. afterwards we took the metro to taksim. after finding a bar offering to smoke a shisha we found a brilliant bar in a small alley.… Continue reading hostel life

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hospitality

the turkish people are very friendly and we got invited quite some times for melon, tea or (nes)cafe. one morning we were invited by a turkish shepperd to his house. he called a friend who couldn’t speak any language that we do as well. so we just sat in the house and tried to enjoy… Continue reading hospitality

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peloponnese

for the night i ended up at a camping place. i don’t know why as i wasn’t that exhausted and there would have been enough spots nearby to spend the night for free. i put up my tent between the campers of birgit and helge on the one and uschi and klaus on the other… Continue reading peloponnese

hellas

the first miles of greece looked a bit unreal. few people live close to the border and there is just one big road with little but forest to both sides. i stayed the night somewhere in those mountains and felt more between two countries and the sound of a trumpet of the bugle call of… Continue reading hellas