Biketouring, solo female travel, outdoor life
Every time I visit the Balkans, it’s like coming back. Although, I’ve never lived there, I feel this Yugonostalgia, missing something I never knew. Maybe in my previous incarnation, I was driving a Yugo or Zastava for a state-planned vacation? The South is paradise lost, wrote Kapka Kassabova in “By the lake”. Her story about Lakes Prespa and Ohrid gave me an impulse to visit North Macedonia.
Czytaj dalej Paradise lost – biketouring in macedoniaProbably the most underrated cycling destination in Europe. Hilly, green and idyllic Slovakia is made for biketouring, but the crowds of tourists are still not there. Below my subjective list of cycling, gastronomic and sightseeing reasons to visit the country of Janosik. Location: in the heart of Europe. You can easily combine a bicycle tour […]
Czytaj dalej Bicycle touring in Slovakia – 13 reasons whyI felt their eyes on me.
„You alone?”
„No, my husband is right behind me,” I answered knowing that they will find out that my husband either wears an invisibility cloak or does not exist if they stay at the road for a while.
It was surprisingly familiar. Unplastered houses among the fields. Hills covered with juicy, green grass. On the road sometimes a tractor, sometimes a dilapidated Golf II, sometimes a shiny black BMW with tinted glass. Just like at home. Only instead of church towers there were minarets on the horizon and sometimes some women in hijab […]
Czytaj dalej Bosnia: Mysterious, intriguing and somehow familiar
RUN, BIKE, EAT 