On way away. Road stories: mountains

Oct 8, 2012

Just few words..

This is Samsun, the city on the Black sea where we spent several days with our CS-host Oya. She impressed me very much because she is a psychologist working with mentally retarded kids and she gives all her time to her students. Even when she' not on the work, she still talks about them and looking at Oya I understood how important is to find the job that you really want to do....Yes, that was a very good experience.

Sep 21, 2012

Tsoumerka mountain

This is Tsoumerka, the mountain which I fell in love with... Actually, it's a a mountain range located in Greece, near the town of Arta. We stayed there for a week at the shelter near the city Pramanda, which hosted the meeting of the motoclub Horizons Unlimited. And in this post will be a lot of mountains ...

It was a rainy day and everybody went to driving master-class so I decided to go hiking and climb that steep cliff

Actually, I tried to find a waterfall but I only heard it's sound.

I heard many other sounds from far away: birds, people, bikes, wind, goats... It was amazing.

Without any equipment I climbed as high as I could but it still was far to the peak

Our refuge is so small...It's over there, under the red roof

Pine trees feel great here but not me. I was scared a bit=)

Finally I reached a stony step which looked more like old ruined castle

These pine trees are laughing at me cause I couldn't find a path to go down

The last sun ray before a very stong rain

Here in between two cliff I found a way down. It was a "stony river" and when I steped on it, the mountain almost made me express delivery tour to refuge. It was raining when I finally came back, and in the refuge I found a rescue team drinking greek vodka and thinking how to find me in this rain.

Next day we made another attemp with Alex and Dennis 'Old Grumpy'. They lokked very inspired in the beginning.

It's Dennis climbing the cliff

We sitting on the top of the cliff

The walk took us 2 hour. But it was not the end! On the next day I made one more attempt. First of all, I went to the well to grab some water but forgot to take a bottle. Plastic bag worked great! I wraped it twice, fastened it inside my backpack and started hiking.