Photos from Georgia trip!

Hi again! It took me a while to put online the photos from my hitchhiking trip, but finally u can see them at : LINK I haven't written anything bout of my trips that took place from September till December, maybe I'll get back to them soon. I was also considering putting this blog on my webpage - www.przychodzien.com If I manage to find some free time I'll propably do so next month. BTW, check it out - you can see some of my best photos there. Hope u like 'em!

Georgia trip slideshow

I'm proud to announce that the slideshow from the trip will take place in Herbaciarnia Dzieła Zebrane at Nowolipki 18 on 1st of October at 7pm. Few days after the pictures will be available to see on the blog.

Georgia 2010: HU-SK-PL

Daniel is living soon to the road to Miskolc so I thought about getting back to Poland through Kosice. Bad idea. There was a petrol station nearby which seemed to be a good place but after 2,5 hours of waiting I decided to go the other way through Vac. It was much better. There's no highway there so it was easier to find a good waiting spot. I met on my way a Polish girl, Magda, also a hitchhiker. We travelled a bit together until we found a truck going straight to Poland. I let her go and waited for another one. It wasn't hard and at 6.30pm I was already in Poland. Finally at home! (not literally home but still..) I didn't manage to catch another car and I had to sleep somewhere near the petrol station. I had a great meal in a restaurant nearby. Finally Polish food! Pork chops, potatoes, some cucumbers and cold beer. After almost 40 days of travelling it seemed to be one of the best meals I've ever had! Next day I left to Warsaw and without any problems I got home at about 5pm.

Georgia 2010: HR - HU

Road to Pecs was short and easy. On my way I explored few more mine fields and post war sites. Abandoned houses, completely destroyed, inhabited ones - still with a lot of bullet holes. Even thou a lot was made to restore the damages there was always something reminding about the past. I spoke with some people on the road about the war. I was quite suprised that almost most of them didn't have problems with other balkan countries. They blamed polititians not normal people. I got the impression that now the general opinion was that the war was started on some higher level, somewhere above.

I arrived at Pecs late afternoon so I just had a walk in the old town with my CS host, Zsolt and then we went to his place. Funny thing, he'll be coming to Poland for 2 weeks soon. Propably we'll have some more time to talk then when we met in Hungary.

Next day I got to Budapest. Only 200 km, no problem at all. I had a very interesting driver. Teacher, philosopher, member of some Krishna kind of spiritual community (or whatever it's called). We had a really good conversation and he also invited me to a dinner. Since free food always sounds interesting I went with him and met also few more people from his community. After this I went to McDonalds at Nyugati station. I realized it's propably a place I visited the most times in Budapest. Don't like the food but free WiFi is always good. In the afternoon I met with my friend, Daniel who hosted me for a night. I got some really interesting ideas from him, maybe we'll go travelling together some day :)

Georgia 2010: HR-BA-HR

I didn't have any specific plans for Bosnia. I thought bout visiting Radimlja (old pagan cemetery) and maybe Mostar. Hitchhiking turned out to be a bit easier than in Croatia but still I wasn't going as fast as I expected and instead of Mostar I decided to go somewhere else. I heard bout really nice lake surrounded by waterfalls which was about 30 km further and I decided to spend a night there. Getting there was not easy - I had to walk the last 5 km with my 30kg backpack but it was definately worth it. The place was beautiful, water was clean (and not salty) and also there were just a few tourists visiting it. Apart from me only few people stayed there for a night for fishing. I spent some time with them, we ate together, had a beer - very nice and hospitable people!

Next day again some swimming in the morning and then some more swimming :) Instead of leaving at 6-7 am as usual, I stayed there till 11. I just couldn't leave! Gotta come back next time I'm gonna be somewhere around!

That day I was not hurrying anywhere. I wanted to go as far as possible north cause the next day I had to reach Pecs in Hungary where I had CS hosting. I enjoyed every minute of that day. Waiting by the road, eating fresh pears, apples and grapes I found nearby. Especially the last ones were amazing - the best ones I've ever eaten!

The day I left Bosnia was very interesting also because of the people I met on my way. I drove with a guy from Switzerland working at military mission in Bosnia and a girl from Slovenia who was planning to organize a trip to Sarajevo. I was really glad to finally find some people with a lot of interesting things to say instead of truck-driver-types with whom you could talk like: my name is..., I'm going to.. and discuss whether Turkish/Greek/Croatian/Serbian/other girls nice asses and tits. I don't mind the last one but it's not one of the things that gives you a lot of new experience and helps you develop your personality :)

I finished the day at some petrol station. It was already after 10pm and completely dark. Since the station was close to the road and it was visible from there I decided to go a bit further with some small local road. I followed it till I saw some wayside chapel. I wanted to sleep just after it but then I saw a sign. It was saying that that place was full of land mines and I was in the middle of it. In a second I felt very strange. I was not afraid but in a while everything become different. Croatia, a tourist destination, with its beaches and curorts was no longer the same. Of course, I knew about the war, read about it a bit, saw some pictures but only at that moment it become so real. Walking through the mine field in complete darkness every step could be the last one. Amazing experience. Much better than the seaside..