Loosing my hair and 76km/h

Morning. I lost my hair. It was a camp in Poland. Aneta and Esko did the job really well with the hair cutter.

Near Krakow in a place called Pieskowa Skala the fun starts! A nice place and not full of hikers and this kind of stuff. An old castle(s) or monasteries (in Poland it is hard to get what it is, but it is always safe to say monastery/church, cause this is what it usually is). So the first ride took us immediately down from a hill including a big portion of adrenalin. Single track in old forest. First taste of speed and bicycle handling when surprised by some rocks and roots. Heh, perfect! These the couple of hours we were riding we also made our speed record 76km/h on asphalt.

The night blessed us already with wild camping at the beginning of Tatras in Poland. Top of the mountain with the view to some Polish city lights – don’t ask the name. To make the feeling ultimate, we decided to have the evening beer on the roof of our minivan. The van was not designed to carry 2 persons on the roof, so to make our dream true we had to distribute our bodyweight as evenly as possible evenly … and then still to drink the beer…. :)

4.86km in Lithuania

One of the ideas of Esko is to bike in every country we are visiting. Ok, Latvia went fast, didn’t do any kilometres there. Lithuania = 5 good kilometres to a lake to wash.

Vacation plan and start

It is 22nd of August and we are on the way, the was to spend next 3 weeks in a way we have had it never ever before. Planning the trip actually started almost 1 year ago. Then the dream was to go mountain biking in Alps. With around 6 people. Etc.
In the beginning of the year we started thinking of getting a VW Turtle minivan, to renovate it go with it. By then the dreamers were only Esko and me. Others somehow one by one managed to disappear.
So bikes are fixed (new front derailleur for both bikes, overall service), car had been in service, we have a rough idea and printouts of the places we could bicycle.
Plan: Slovakia and biking in High Tatras, Slovenia and biking in Julian Alps, Croatia and sunbathing on Vis island, Hungary and dancing in Szieget festival. I like when the plan in crystal clear ;)

Netherlands

In Den Hag. The b&w pictures fit perfectly to express the late autumn mood. In the morning we spent time walking at the beach. There was a park with simple but meanigful statues. Some photos from there.

In other words, 3 breathless guys stearing at the sea

Netherlands 1st day

Early morning found me in Amsterdam. Last night party in club till 5. Miss TTU beauty competition in Club Parlament (Tallinn) took its time. After a 45 min sleep I made a zombiwalk to the airport. Anyway, seems I really like to sleep in the planes. The morning in Amsterdam was rough. According to the plan meeting Gabi and Aneta only in the evening until this moment I had blenty of time to walk and shake around the city.

Welcome... symbolic welcome picture.

Opened windows leave an impression that also people are more opened. Feels kind of fresh and positive

A statue next to some school. Finally I don't know why I made this picture.

"mich we remember u" Probably one of my favorite pictures, on the paper it is even better.

I have also some B&W photos from this weekend, soon I'll try to get them uploaded aswell. The funny thing is that I have these dates in the blog, but actually I am filling the blog more than half a year later... then I have these dilemmas of how to express myself (in real time or as a eye peek to the past). Finally the overall idea of this blog is to share some of the pictures I like with my friends.