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Morning in Trento. View from my friends' place.

Last climbing day in Folgaria was super, despite the rain and thunder that welcomed us on afternoon. Compared the last day rock and grading of routes it was harder wall.... 5a was not as easy as it should have been ;). By the way the previous day i climbed also a 7b, which is much more than my actual level (some 6b) so i dont really trust those gradings ;)

Ok, thats it, party's over... Need to hitch back to Estonia. Kris took me to petrol station between Trento and Bolzano and here we go!

Preparations for hitching.... I found my old "POTENZA" sign when I tried to find "TOKYO" sign... You know, sometimes it's better to write something absurd, it catches more attention and increases the probability to get a lift.

Staying in petrol station and enjoying last moments in my paradise

I got to München with the one Kosovar and then troubles started... As it was already dark, I didn't find any lift. At 23 or smthng i was tired enough to not think normally, so i decided that going to  Passau is better than nothing.... and than i got again to austria...and got stuck there. During the morning I was only moving to wrong direction, just to get to the road where people are going to right direction.... but the day was not as bad as it seemed in the beginning - two young climbers picked me  from Graz to Vienna and as they had just bought a lot of used gear for little money i got a new old pair of climbing shoes (36,5 was deffinitely too small size for them).
From a petrol station near Vienna I got lift to Katowice (south of Poland) from an Italian guy who is doing bouldering and listening to Eddie Vedder... perfect. Basically 4 drivers of 6 who picked me up in Austria were climbers. Is climbing so popular in Austria or do only climbers understand hitchhiking there??
We arrived to Katowice at night, so I didn't continue hitching.... I was just too sleepy, as I had been on the road previous night. The first time in hotel during this trip... sponsored by driver. This time it was maybe the best solution, even though I like the idea to use mostly thousand stars hotels :D.
I was already tired of sitting in the cars, so I decided to go climbing somewhere near Katowice. I googled: "climbing in Katowice", and found this: a foreigners guide to rock climbing in poland. Next stop Podlesnice. 

Climbing shop (world) in Podlesice

Climbing camp in Podlesice

Horses between Podlesice and Morsko... walk-walk

Castle near Morsko. really close to climbing rock

On the top of an hill near Podlesice

Next time i will climb it... this time there were no people

Finishing climbing, trekking and tasting a good beer in the climbing world I raised up my thumb again. In small roads it's so easy to get picked up.... but usually for short distances. Anyway for the night I got near Warsaw (Yep, I kidnapped one guy who was already dreaming of his hotel in Warsaw, but then he picked me up and drove to other side of Warsaw... bad me, poor him :D).
Night was passing without big success (I wass kind of sleeping 2 hours in McDonalds, drinking hot tea and fighting with auto corrector in my phone). When it got light again I returne to the exit of petrol station and after 1 hour of waiting also one colleague joined me.... a German guy who was going to Kaunas and afterwardfs also Tallinn :D. We got a ride to Bialystok. That place was somehow mistaken- from that gas station nobody went to our direction, so we were changing places near by.... walking back and forward I don't know how many hours.... And Finally we were lucky- to Augustow. Then another walk, Lidl stop and a lift from a Latvian man to Riga (Kaunas for Benny). Almost at home, I understood it also from rain :)
Near Riga I almost got a ride from a geographer from my uni, but he was turning to Tartu too early, so it was better not to waste time and energy to make some space for me only for some miles. Still funny. Fortunately I didn't need to walk too long, because some lithuanians stopped and promised to take me to Salacgriva. In the end one of them changed car in Salacgriva and drove me to Tallinn (He have had the idea to go to Tallinn anyway, just some work took him to Riga on the afternoon.... but he still ended up in Tallinn, muhahaa 😆