Uphill river Drava (Drau) and down following Pusteria and Adige

Finally a logical bicycle road

Brunico. If you have no place to sleep, you hike some hills and take photos at five o clock in the morning

Cloudy and cool

Pedevilla would mean Villa of gey.

Slightly downhill. What a pleasure

Okey, basically arrived. Thats what i need for life

Super tired but happy, already crossed the low energy point

"Petrol"station for cyclers 20 km before Trento. Me likey

There is Kaarsild also in san Michele all Adige... not only in Tartu

Piazza Duomo in Trento

...austria

Last time i was in Amstetten, watching football and eating bread with tomato, right? Of course I had some random small talk with local old men who were curious about who I am and why I was there 😆. One guy generously offered me a space in his garden to put my tent. No shower this time

Crazy-busy days

Steyr, a weapon factory town. Quite beautiful btw

Arrived to rocky lake zone

In Ebensee I was hosted by Martin, a Viking that I met in the only bar which was opened and showed football match between Colombia and England. As it happens often we were talking and tasting local liquers until late night...

A rock near to Ebensee

.... and next morning went to Feuerkogeln by cable car and had a little hike.

Had a hike with Martin on Feuerkogeln

View from Feuerkogeln to Ebensee

In the afternoon I already continued my way to Alpes.

Hunter in the forest

I still got heavy rain

A friend of mine

Getting up on this steep road (grossglockner high alpine way)

3 km left to the pass. Dead. Low energy.Hug the snow.

Weather was nice as you see... on the top. 2504 m. Highest point with my bike. Super cold.

Etc...

In Wien I was hosted by my friend Gianni, the Sardinian guy who also had organized a place for my bike for those two weeks that i was away. He was still in Russia (football world cup you know... Iceland needed some support 😊) but arrived back for night. Anyway I got keys from his friend. Vienna is actually very nice, even though its capital. Its not too big and crowded, no stress. People was also much more relaxed than i excepted... maybe because of summer and nice weather but may be also that they are all the time like that... intermediate between Mediterranean and German culture (Well, geographically they are, so maybe it influences their life style)? After making some circles in the city and watching Croatian-Danish lottery I headed to Giannis place. I remembered the name of the street but not the number of house and apartment 😂. So i just tried the key on many doors until i found the right one 😆😉. Just 15 min later also Gianni arrived and we (he) started to cook midnight pasta. Hunger got killed.

Good morning! Time to hit the road again. Massimo was ready, my body and mind as well. It will be middle-long day... around 130 kms according to my plans.

Sunshine reggae

Thank you, eastern wind for supporting me all day long. After some 30-40 kms I was already in nice and small Austrian villages where 1 person out of 8 speaks english (dont trust my statistics, the sample was not presentative). But yeah, they dont have many tourists then, so I got some attention... also lollypop and caffe from an employee of supermarket.

Caffe and lollypop

The road was going slightly upwards often nect to rivers but it was still flat and easy.

In some places Donau river is really blue.... maybe Strauss was talking about this place

 I arrived to my destination Amstetten already at 7pm which is quite early for me. Now football and bread with banana and tomato.

Back to Wien to reunite with Massimo

After monkeying around in Kiel I continued my trip. I estimated to arrive in Brno for night and i was right... i arrived exactly 5 minutes before midnight. So Mischa doesnt get half ice cream that i promised to him in case of not arriving there 😆. I contacted a guy who had picked me up on my way from Vienna to Estonia and luckily he was ready to host me. Nice. Now it was only 120 km left to Vienna. Easy... i got a nice ride with italian family in camper and here i am in Wien now, watching how Russia won against Spain. I got back my dear bike who needed to stay 2 weeks in basement of Wombat city hostel.... poor Massimo. Now i unlocked him and we have quality time again... it was really violent to lock him but im jeallous, you know 😂

Some people, screen and sad spanish guy on  it

Making caffe in front of Karls kirche. Massimo on background.

Kiel vol.3

Last time i wrote i was somewhere in poland. As always it was a bit tricky to get around Warsaw, but i had some luck in strategically not that good spots (properly on highway for example). Near Łodz I just got out of a car, looking for some cars with german plate or at leas Poznan (plate nr starting with PZ or PO) when i saw a car with Dutch plate.... hmm direction is the same. I went and ask about their direction and apparently it was Hamburg, the same as mine.... and one of them was estonian 😂😆. We learned pronounciation of some dutch words and found out that English is actually not the worst in fu**ing up vowels 😂. What!!! There is no petrol station before turning point to Kiel/Lübeck on highway. I should have get out the car in a small parking spot in that case, but i didnt know, so I arrived almost into the city of hamburg, just to the end of highway. Needed to turn back, so i hitched on a big roundabout in the on the beginning of the highway, praying  that i have some luck. I had half luck at least so that i caught a car to next turning point (petrol station before it) where i have already spent some beauuutiful hours of my life last year (without success btw). This time i was luckier - I even didnt have time to make caffe before a hippie bus stopped seeing me and my sign saying "Kiel". They were going to end their day near my destination 😊 and in the end they brought me to the exact address of Mischa. I cant complain... it was my personal best in hitching to Kiel. Only 31 hours.

Now it was just time to relax a bit, change news of last half year with Mischa and Öfi, meet Mischas new flatmate who is also cool and talkative guy,  do some "shopping" and go to run which i havent done long time. Kiel was full of atmosphere of holydays (mix of flower smell, bird voices, sound of wind blow near the river mouth and also the kind of idyllic architecture of Kiel... etc).

Next day poor Mischa needed to take half day off of studies because of my disturbance 😈. I feel sooo quilty. OK, first we went to his lab to check out how he is doing his thesis but after when we just wanted to take a look and maybe small swim at the river/sea side we bumped into his friend doing slacklining ower the water. History has the tendence to repeat itself... so i was waterlining again in Kiel, exactly like a year ago. And it was only the beginning of slaclinig day (i managed to walk only 5 steps on the line 😉 because the water under me changes my abilities a bit... psichology is against me). After having some nice caffe in balcony of Öfi we continued slacking in park with Öfi and her room mate. I was much better on the line above the ground 😂.

Finally we went to Kletternkeller... the bouldering place which i hadnt visited yet even though Miška has talked about it many times. But we arrived too early so we were playing an hour on children playground and got our arms half tired already. Not in the best climbing shape but i will get there 😆.

Traditional monkeying pic of Mischa

Almost straight

Climbing cave

Thats my buddy