Visiting suroundings and goinf to Sofia.

After good rest today, we check ou the souroundings and visit the place were the most famous medium of bulgaria and maybe europe raised a church after her death. A nice place next to a hot sulfurous spring. I am a little to hangover to bath in them, i regret a little would have done me good.
Goce goes for more shopping, Electronics for home. Later we visite the young bride once more before everyone heads of. Separation after about a week of excellent time together... But we will see again in Istanbul! I head of a bit late, the sun is setting and i have to get to Sofia or Plovdiv tonight... And i am lucky to be picked up by a young dude real happy to speak a little german again. he drops me further were i have to walk to a petrol station to find a spot that is not comletely in the dark. I dont like hitchhiking in the night but tonight i will get the best ride of Bulgaria!

A 4 wheel drive pulls up and stops, i open, large guy all smilling and a strong smell of vine. At first i am a little suspicious... Drink and drive on Bulgarian highways, not a good idea... But the dude has clear eyes and seems like a good man! So i step in, we comunicate in basis of german and serbain, funny times. After about 100 meter he asks me if i like vine... Ahhh of course. He pulls over and step out to fill me a small bottle of water with some house vine. He has about 400 litters in the back and want me to taste i am from france after all :)
I test him and propose some. He refuses, he stopped drinking since he had a bad accident and now does yoga. Plus he is driving... I tast, it is good! local production, completely natural, no chemicals, no selling, just for him and his friends. AS we tlk he wanders where i go and where i sleep. Soon he invites me home and to do the small delivery he has to do before driving home. Of course i accept. So we deliver 300 liters in the middle of nowhere. A house in the nature, his friends young “maitresse” cute and smart. And lots of vine, i get to taste the different vines, more or less ready. Delicious! Simple and not very fine but good!
We drive back of and as e arrive hoem, he wakes his wife for a dinner. a very simpel man but he seems to be the major of this suburb of sofia. He is always smilling and gives a very “ rural” and simple impression. He hosts and gives work to 2 men with no family or relations, we bring them vine and check on the goats. They build a house for hi, slowly but shurly. Good man! We share our evening meel, eggs, tomatoes, ognions, fresh cheese from his goass and vine of course!
i fall a sleep fast in my simple hoe, the house next too his house... in renovation, somaire mais connfortable.

Hecktick day, but Goce stays cool

I will write short more note like posts for the next days since as i am posting for the next 20 days were i will be off in the nature of south Turkey. I have not written these before and might make more mistakes...

So first of all, i forgot to mention Goce knows Sandra the swearing juggler and he makes fire wings for her. Today, after a needed night of rest, we go out for a hecktick day, first we go pick up the vine at his grandmothers place, as i said Goce is a trader and he bought 100 bottle of a 0 year old vine. He promises an excellent vine, and hopes to make a good deal out of it. So we bike to here place(without any cops stopping us this time). And guess were she lives? 100 meters from aurelise flat, in Avtokomanda! How funny it is to be in these strets again.
I meet Goces cousin, hangover, in bed after a long party night. He is over 2 meter and supposedly a very good basketball player. next we rush to the train station check for my phone. e go pick up stuff at the post office but it is closed, so we go to the market, try to find a new phone to replace the one Goce lost on the train. So i want something simple and cheap, so the guys try to rip me of :) I am not stupid try the phone, no speaker... as i mention the problem, the seller sazs ma nema problema and put on the loudspeaker... hehe no way!
Fuck it is past 3 pm, e need to be home and ready in 10 minuts.
So we cycle, fast! And pack, fast! but we are still 3 minutes late for the bus to the south eat of Macedonia. We get into a taxi but the ride is announcing like a big rip off so we get out after 5 minutes, Goce and Elena his girlfreind get all fired up at the fcking driver... So we sit down in the grass and chill, wait for the next Bus. Bus comes, we get on, then on a taxi to the Macedonian boarder.
The boarder we pass by foot and t is almost a catastrophe, Goce misses a paper, he has a group visa but this is not valid without the paper from the hosting hotel... Fortunately we joke a little in French and the fact that he is the Shafer at the marriage helps... O forgot to mention, or didnt i??? We are going to a marriage! A Bulgarian Marriage! hehe Goce is the shafer, something traditional i will explain tomorrow for his cousin.
After the boarder a cousin comes to pick us up to bring us to the cousin house for a small snack and a couple rakis :) We then o out for billiard, tomorrow is the great day for the 22 young people !

Bol - Dubrovnik ??

[dadoudoudou dadadada ... Sting still sings in my head :) Last night, the real time last night not the blog time last night The Police where playing in Belgrade, nice show! I have to write a few posts to keepathe blog running but the sun is shining outside so i ll be brief, at least i ll try...]

So, After 5 or 6 very nice days in Bol doing all sorts of sports and taking a rest in that nice place i decided to move on. Sinice it is quite tiering to move all the time and i was happy to stay a bit longer in one place and am now fully pumped up with more energy and will to discover! (and my cloth are clean again!) I drop in at the windsurf camp to say goodbye and have one more chat with Vlado. Vlado was very kind to me, besides tips for windsurfing, he showed me his family's summer cottage in the hights of Bol. There his dad has a small wineyard and some olive trees. They make their own red wine and i got to taste my first red croatian wine and even got an whole bottle offered which i drank at the camping with some young an older guy from round the world, chatting about exil, beeing a refugee, politics and the sitation in the Balkans and much more....

So after saying goodbuy to Vlado at the windsurf camp, i wait for the showers to pass and get on my way! First hike with some polish people takes me to a village up on the island top where i try to find a nice local lamb grill but find only a hot chocolate, again waiting for the rain to pass... The next ride then takes me to Selca:

Leaving Selca

From there, the ferry will take me back on land, to Makarska. Small wonder in this city will prove once again that most smaller cities in Croatia have these small streets and this touch of anciant times. Very nice and easy.

Makarska main square.

Making my way to the main road however is not so easy... i walk through not so nice parts of Makarska and realize it is not all about the nice little center. After wainting for some time in the sun, by the road, a delivery truck stops and takes me along. The driver says he goes to Dubrovnik but he also getts further down to Tivat, Montenegro. We chat a lot, he is a very nice dude and convinces me to check out Kotor on a friday night, it will be party time for the young and the city is so nice... So i pass Dubrovnik, just getting a nice look of it at sunset.

The dark side of Dubrovnik, hudge Ferry, not so nice houses...

The brighter side, a bay with the old city everbody knows.

My longest ride so far! Thanks Milian! This pic is at sunset, at the border between Croatia and Montenegro.

Ok long enought for this post, more about Kotor tomorrow!

Chuche tour 2eme etape!

A les filles d'alsace! Merci Arno pour le pur weekend par chez toi, merci au Yopla Guys pour la soiree fantastique et a Francois Stoll pour son bon pinard.

Suberbe tour dans les forets du haut du bled avec Ju et Foin, l'autre jedi n'ayant pas eu le courage a la hauteur de sa reputation. Hein Moum! Fait gaffe, bientot la maison, le chien, les enfants et t'auras plus le droit de venir nous voir. C'etait vraiment sympas de vous voir vous autres Gays (bien que certain soit passe de jedi chucheur a padaone chucheur).