BULGARIA
The first morning was great even beside the hardships and headaches of yesterday, finally I got not drawned in the mediterranean sea or between Calais and Dover in a raft with 20 more volks and fellows. These cowardly acts by air booking ghave to get strictly avoided, if they can not manage the next years covid will do or rising waters and floods.
I thought all was gone, the head, headset and the set -
yes it was like that, and sinec two years allready, airlines got grounded over months, planes sold on row and all got restructured. Even as rthey had some alliances ... over years.
No pillows but the head, set and headset was gone, that was for sure, no tiny flatscreens left for further payback and rewards, no terminals and no additional infos which were for long lost, the set was lost and two more items (read above).
Sofia and Bulgaria had mostly good and sunny weather, it was great again, all was shining and good for welcome, the hotel which was excellent and gave me some releave as I told them what happened after years of doeing that air bookings, and had to get back to the hotel a
few times more then I would have done before that hardshipdays in Turky, but in specific from teh airport then (no takeoff ). However crossover to southeast of Europe got done well.
Sofia has some main squares in its center with lovely hundred fountains, straight into its city
center which is a pedestrian zone what is great.
To the south you get to South park, where I went about 2 times, had some nice rests there wathcing all that ovcely dogs and fooling around.
Finally Southpark got 700 trees from teh USA as good friends. Also China had its presence with a wall of pictures on way to Southpark from the times of Deng Xiaoping and the friendship meetings, guess it was for progress then.
People speak all also english and lobbies got seen on streetsigns from the kyrillic ages, I could not decipher that, and the additional balance for SMS and the new sim card was extra, SMS was of another standard, which made me think of howfar back was kyrill, as storm, desert storm or soem words in written SMS.
Anyway the people are nice and friendly, the catwalk is there in teh cities center whithe the glasscontainers for food duirng cold times with heaters, what surprised me a bid as covid got the total glasscontainer settings alsong teh centers catwalk a more sticky and dangerouse effect during taking foods in such glasscontainers.
There was some fency and costly looking high hotel to the opposite way from southpark (with all that many lovely kept dogs). It is good when they keep them as friends, it is the best friends since ages and spaniards in Latin America (there it was cowdogs to hunt on natives....).
Typical for Sofia was its huge pedestrian bridges where you do not get the bas dust of the highways underneath. Near the fancy costly hotel there was some remains from ancient times the 16 century. When some crusaders were on way to Turky, some 40 000 Bulgarians got blinded by some cruseaders.
They are for sure not blind in modern days, no you see all kind of streetgear by the young generation.
Some couples or new friends sit in good restaurants nad I have to give proove tat I had my best Lemon chicken with Safran rice there. The welcome to the restaurant was .. "forget it" i had to LOL loud, he returned and did another welcome more in order. Izt was trhe best lemon chicken with safran rice ! I got that two times in 3 days, it was too much.
The best of strawsucking show aside, by a fresh couple, looking a bid russian, was also nice. Also a fency dark car across the street, with 3 guys nearly climbing on it and the ad on a window across the street indicated that she was also there, beside the Lemon chicken, I knew
I could have been her next prey.
It was not a simple strawsucking cofee story and it was her face acorss the street on the window (huge ad), she had many faces. All masktime beside the need against covid was over. It was like on a set for a movie. I got immediatly addicted to .. a lemon chicken, and it was never in a tiny flatscreen (and not in tiger woods). Sofia was great.
The hardship by a bad ticket aws passing away slowly as I got enabled by chance, to write finally some complaint emails, some weavers, the mails for the sue, teh refund of the price for the air ticket. The price for going to court, the infos etc.
I met somebody from a security by chance in the hotellobby, he told me later he was from blackwater, 12 years in Afghnaisthan and got out
of there mid of last August. I could see with my sharp eyes, that the man, around 60 was from the security by his equipment in his room,
and he was nice to let me on his computers which was there on the rooms desk,
where I had ot take my cam and card for the pic of the ticket later
and the email stuff.
He was in the while on the outside of the room for the better router conection of his netbook, beside all the stuff on that hotel rooms desktop, which had soem cables, smartphones but not that far soem the new amazons intended 100 satelites. I knew he was not for me a security threat and me not for him. The mails gro written ... the paied and lost ticket never compensated or refunded. It got to new scenarios with security in hoztels and lobbies.
Windows got immediatly grey, shades of grey after i had that two mails done, more mails seemed to be by the wrong server and maynbe router, as it was the case with Hillary Cl. once. MS showed all shades of grey some minutes later. Blackwater did a good job, far away from some new airport and the plains of Turky !!
I got a little puzzled as soem women looked so attraktive but even then the way back from Southpark some needed to shout what that means, and what men must do .. it was to much. Which men in the modern south of europe beside the LGBTN OHHCG does not know that. But is it a must, a gentleman or a pretty scream of wht men must do, told by old teens somewhere on way back from... souh park. Allready some of teh waiters dresses, in some of the food places, which had good ones, the unifeorms reminded me to frog suits in black, they had more of tehse frogsuit food locations allso in Burgas where i got later.
Imean there is facespuk since years, linkedin, bytedance, whatspp, all that digital rubbish, whatfor teens screaming for the F, what the f and LOL the more in frogsuits. Where is the ministry for out cuture, discipline, order and dress codes. The sun was shing ... mostly ... in Sofia the message got heared form stages in GB during brexit times, the sun was mostly shining ... but some wanted to sing to that, to scream for more sun or the moon even, wasn t it.
Till it burns you, till volcanoes get done on wheel pipes and mergers done after accquisations. if it got not to the new accusations for hundred pegasus infected cell phones ,... for paied and lost tickets, beside all systems .. inside or lost for long.
I had to leave for Burgas which was on my adventure schedule, the Black sea which I had never seen before but its connection seen from Istanbul.
After a long and not the fastest way on train, which took about 7 hrs, the first one and half by 60km/h speed, the mid by 80 - 90 speed, passig ghost stations and villages, the last hour moving by around 100 speed I reached Burgas during sunset.
Lately I wanted some normal room, a normal lobby and a normal view, no fency and shining center, no 20 floor tower in the shine near some centers ruins from the 16 century. Not the closed lobby after 18.00 for 10 euro in Burgas, it was all a bid of a hardship to find some place allready then in the dark. Finally I was in Europes southeast ....
I am not sure if it was normal then, the breakfast place nice at the groundfloor, but after two times return before noon to my room
it felt as somebody must have taken a shower there in the while.
I am not sure if that was normal, anyway the meals were good there.
Getting to a food place near the street the police left the location at the point, the women in frogsuit nice but I was never sure if all that was normal. was it lost to tiny flatscreens over years. I had to reach the sea. It was there and i took some time off relaxing, having fews where the ska and sea met, passing and getting puzzled by all that rail tracks, factory looking areas and chimneys over that, near container ports and docks, some yet in use. It was a huge area and as a normal old port town, the ads for missing men and women on some trees in Burgas looked a bid too many of that on some trees.
They had glassfronts of wine and firewater bottles at some shops seen from streets, the park and civil rail station were ok, but hardly visited.
The long stretch of beach had to passed through a modern disrict with balken to get cars paied for acces and the nearby park. Nobody on the beach, only me, no dogs but some crows and seagulls. The factory and railway sector out of reach, the seawaters and shells indicated that it was not again too polluted or far over the dump level, even as the docks and containers were there during some periods. It was a huge bay and the mainland on other side here not 10 km away on other bayside it was more close to 20 kilometers to the north.
As the hotel room always had some strange atmosphere on my returns, I left immediatly when the dust got too much, tramepd out of the center, asking around trieig to follow the rail grack and ended up at the bussstand to Sofias. It took 2 hrs less than by train and I decided to leave for Grece.
GREECE
The paperwork got done 1 hrs before takeoff and the .. sun was shining on way south again. There were no connections to Sarajevo via Serbia and not evryday busses. The railway station was in treh back of the busstand and partly under constructuion. Prices were more than reasonable and more to cheap, but fitting on way ... to Russia as allready experienced in Kyrgisthan, part of GUS. No visa was needed for Greece.
The difference was that turkish teens or young women did not shout what men must do, or what that or that frog suit ment. Turky was mroe in masho state yet here and there in contrary to Bulgaria, which got more to the green border between Russia and Europe, it was the southern tip of the Balkan mountains which could get easliy seen from Sofia in a good distance.
In one of the main bus-hubs in Thessaloniki -Greece, I talked with a young women after the busride
about some seashore villages, which got me to Kavala some 4 hours later, waiting time was not too bad,
the bus full mostly with youngsters which dropped off at last destination, Kavala.
A big city spread in the close hills of northeastern Midgreece at the sea.
The frightened priest wrang hastily the bell dunring it got dark, while I took me way on foot the way to the castle. I got puzzled as
there were a 100 000 flats with balconies, and aside four fency costly hotels, everybody knew them. The hotel europa one was booked
till November, finally I took the way up another steep rising hill and got a room for 50 euro the night.
I wanted to see if the room fitted me, what was my routine in india and the sticky one in Bulgaria, but that dod not fit
the protokoll in the Enignata one.
The time later in bed I had to lough out loud on that, "room check" in such a place before paiment, which did not fit the protokoll.
I guess Hillary Cl. had a similar experience but in China maybe. Different standards on way in short got to different protokolls, and nobody new where all the headsets were gone. They had these chipcards for the doors and next day returning from breakfast which was great, by the goodview over the bay of Kavala there was a sticker on my roomdoor, I coudl not eneter. I made to lobby runup the stair and told them in Mexico that got them a problem, when I could not enetr the room, it was in Chiapas south Mecxico. That was of a minor problem and protokoll then realy in Kavala.
Clear that I wanted to leave, I hiked around the peaks back to the northeast of Kavala, with my packbag over rocks and taking shrotcuts here and then in the hills with flowering Cyclames and yellow Crocus. I passed 5 houses named Paleo Kavala onway, there are many paleo locations in Greece.
Got in the sight of a snake eagle and some buzzards, it was sunny and warm weather and many of these birds of prey stay there over the cold months of the year.
allready in Greece ... Phillipoi Octavian Augustus //
Drama lyrics via enignata
Later the day as everybody knew that motel at Lydia not far from the
ruins of Phillipoi founded by the father of Alexander the Great, impressing,
not far from Drama and Lyra .... It was great. I did my morning hikes everyday over the close hill and over the ruins of Phillipo, and took the way back before sunset teh same day then, in the rocks.
Three great days in ease. ONly at the fifth day i visited the ruin palce of Phillipo with the museum. The evening hike when I met the grece turtle in then hill. It was a good sign but bad with the netbook, it all failed. The same night till 1 in te night the partitions got split in 6 the system broke and could not mount one of them porper, i macde it one and installed all that partly, I knew it was after the meet with the turtle, it was Ok. A hint by the turtle. It was no stress. Next day I left by bus and decided to take the way back to the Alps.
Nomore stopovers or long halfday waiting time at some bushubs. They mentioned at one ticket counter of 3 in Thessaloniki, that busses were full to Corfu so it got Igomeniza in the south of Corfu. Some one and half hour later aftzer my arrival there, the huge ferry was leaving fo Ancone in Italy.
ITALY
I was asking for Triest, Rijeka, Split but they did not connect to these ports, only to Venice, Ancona or Bari but not the west Balkan. There must have been some problem with these routes up to the tip of the Adria. On the ferry there were some outdoor campers and rovers, best equipped and many truck drivers.
A small bird was on the ferry maybe it was two or three even, they could not leave during the way, what looked funny here and then. It got save to Ancona. The ticket was cheaper than for others because I had no truck or car, also no bike with me, but at first her price was 160 euro, the correct one was 71 then without some additional vehicle.
I was the first who got out from the huge ferry (no suoerfast) over the ramp, took my way out ind to the railway statione. On and half hour later teh exquisite highspeed train rosso got boarded. All so special from the interiour design in artifical leader but only littel time to Bologna for that money, the new time-track relation in Europe. The connection was Ok and also fast to Ven.maestre, but interesting not that elegant volks in the conecting train then, also highspeed. I got out for one more overnight stop finally oin Treviso, which I knew from last time.
Teens on their way to school, here and there a coffe maciato or latte before work or school, some toilett was missing at the station, and a shame in comparison to airports, and thats for pay along highways and in many railway stations. Not in all lands of Europe and in France you have some restplace in the railstations, I think it was in Bourdeaux from 4 in the morning.
The two fency hotels (or 4) is not the thing really, also not couch surfing, the need and capacities are there for family run guest houses, no appartments with extra a car for shopping and cooking for the time offschool with the neos holiday stress then.
Privat run ... Bed and Breakfast would fit in Europs total south as well since long. GB and France ar farmore north, they have that.
Beton and Bettenburgen are another thing. Italy got passed fast as the pandemic was not yet over and precautions need to be taken. Either in superfast trains, sticky hotel rooms or the last train on return way. Thy had many fatalities in many lands and if marcets cum any tickets will fit the new challanges will show some future.
Home offices have been there since long and schools can take longer, it was like "The head, set and headset got lost" ... onway.
