Fernweh

If you are unfamiliar with this German expression like i was then it means crave for travel ;"farsickness"; being homesick for a place you've never been. And that pretty much describes me dead on.

Thursday after the blog post once again i stayed in Tarragona a bit longer and started walking a bit after midnight. At that moment i was so tired that i was sure that i will walk just out from town and go tho sleep in the first place i will find. But being on the road felt just so good that I kept on walking until 5 am and passed trough even other towns.
There is just something special with me and the road.

Pretty much nothing happened on Friday. I took it slowly and enjoyed my walk and went to sleep in an olive farm once again.

Saturday was a bit more adventurous. At one moment the road changed to motorway again and there was no alternative road for me to walk on. So i had to do some off road walking for about 3 km before i could return to the road. But to do that i had to walk down from a steep 15 meter hill next to the road. But the soil was way looser than i expected. I had made few steps down when the ground under my feet started slippering away. So i got down in about 3 seconds followed by stones. At that moment i looked up and was wondering wtf had just happened. Laughed at myself like usually, stood up and kept on walking. But nothing very serious happened. Just some bruises, scratches and broken fingernail.

The evening walk was pretty nice as well. I was walking on a road were 7 out of 10 vehicles were trucks. And it was a busy road. Usually when i see a truck coming i stop in the side of the road. But on this evening they were constantly coming. So the first one hour was a nice rush of adrenaline for me because all the trucks passed by me with an average distance of 40 cm. But after an hour it was all normal and boring again.

Sunday was also pretty nice. For a start i started seeing mandarin farms everywhere again and i haven't seen them since south Italy. So from Sunday I've been eating around 2 kg of mandarin's every day. Sunday was also a very windy day so the wind blew me around a lot which sometimes seemed to be a bit dangerous. In the evening i walked trough one small town to buy food but unfortunately all the shops were closed. Luckily for me one restaurant worker saw my sign and invited me in and offered a good pasta to me.

For Monday i have nothing to write.

Tuesday was a nice day already that boosted up my moral a bit. Always when I'm on the same road for days truck drivers start to recognise me on the road. And when they see me walking they either wave or signal to me which is always a nice thing. In the evening i made coffee breaks in those big truck stops. And there it was also nice because there was always somebody there who recognized me and bought me a coffee or offered a cigarette.

Wednesday was even better. Somewhere around 3 pm i made a little stop in a small town again. I stayed there for three hours and had few beers with some guys. But that's not the case here. When i was walking out from town i saw a friend from Saint-Tropez who was just about to enter to the town. He was the guy with who i spent almost every night together in the last two weeks when i stayed in Saint-Tropez. And he is also pretty much the only crazy guy who is heading to north right now when everybody else is heading south.
So we both cancelled our plans to move on for the day and went to a bar. There i drank my beers and for him i bought coffees, cokes and food (he doesn't drink). We talked about the things that had happened and were just catching up. Then we went to sleep in the same place together.
In the morning we made our coffees, then had our coffees in the cafe. And then we had a little treasure hunt because i had lost my walking sticks and my map in the previous night. But they were still all in the bar and we found both of them easily. Then he happened to have few cigars that somebody had given to him. We smoked cigars and said goodbye once again.

Thursday in the evening i arrived in Castello which was quite nice city actually. But i just visited the Internet point and walked trough. Not much happened that day.

Friday was also pretty nice again. In the day time i did my walking like normally. In the evening when i was passing by another small town i decided to have a coffee break. I ordered my coffee and went to sit outside so i could have my cigarette at the same time. And just when I'm about to leave from the bar, two girls walk out from the bar with three beers and sit in my table and start speaking with me. In the course of two hours three other girls also joined with us and they kept buying me beers and food. But after two hours i finally decided that I'm going to keep walking and moved on.

Saturday morning i woke up in a mandarin farm when the workers came. But they were very nice and offered me mandarins for breakfast.
Somewhere before Sagunt/Sagunto i changed the road to go to Sagunto (the port city) where i had to change the roads again. But somewhere i made the wrong turn towards Sagunt and that mistake costed me 9 km of extra walking.
But it was a good thing that i made that mistake. Because in Sagunt a car with four girls stopped and started talking with me. After 5 minutes they asked if i have plans for the evening. Well the plan was to keep on walking but when four girls ask you out on a Saturday evening you automatically cancel all your plans. So i gave them my number and told them to call me in few hours when I'm in the Sagunto (the city where i should have been in the first place). There i went to a cafe to kill time until they call. But coincidentally the cafe where i went to kill time was also their gathering point before they were going to call me. So we got together a bit earlier. We went trough many bars in the evening and drank until 3 am and had a good time again. And also they paid my drinks once again.
 There is a possibility that one of the girls is coming to Valencia to celebrate my birthday with me. Its on 25-th of January (Sunday) but i will start celebrating Saturday evening already.

And yesterday was a pretty slow day for me. In the evening it started raining so i stopped in a town just 12 km before Valencia where i still am.
But I've been actually lucky with the weather because day times have now been normally over 20 degrees and sunny so i even got little bit sunburned.

And about Valencia. I'm looking for a good and cheap student bar in the center of Valencia where i can spend my evenings and birthday. So if you know one, write a comment or even better you can give me a call 654 925 583 and  invite me for a beer after 9 pm.

So far 2919 km.