Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Sometimes shit happens

There has been few connection problems in these last few weeks. But now this problem is solved and I'm back online.
My tablet stopped working and i lost a lot of photos so in this post i keep it short and use photos i found on facebook.

I stayed in Livorno from 16th june until 20th june. There i looked around and in day time tryed few times begging but that didn't work out that well.
There i also met many young people and i even brought some strangers together because in the evenings a lot of people gathered around me to get to know what im doing.

This is one group of people who i met.


If the weather is good i will go back to Livorno for a birthday party tomorrow and then i can make some new photos from Livorno as well.

Friday evening i arrived in Pisa and i liked this city from the moment i got here.


But unfortunately the first week or so Pisa was a bit tough on me.

In the second night my sleeping bag and tent got stolen.
On the third morning i had over 39 ℃ fever, cough and sour throat.
But in the evening two brothers came to me and asked if i need an accommodation.

So this nice family hosted me for two days until i was healed.


After that my tablet stopped working completely.

I also went out with the guys who i met in Grosseto and they offered me an accommodation as well.


On the same evening one guy made me a present after he heard that my sleeping mat got stolen.


We also had a nice carbonara lunch together.


Soon after that i got a high fever again but this time i was alone with this. And i have to say that its really not good to just sit in one park for two days trying to heal. 

But by 30 june i was okey again but still with some problems like tablet.

So for the whole week everyday and sometimes even night time i was begging.
I got so much sun doing that (everyday between 12-15 i was exposed to the sun) that on the third day my face skin started to peal off and had a pretty big sun stroke for few days. But this time i didnt let this to bother me and did what i would have done in normal day. All though these hallucination's were quite fun sometimes.

But i got a suncream and it was then cloudy for few days so that got okey as well. 

But in the last week i was still having a lot of fun and ive been meeting so many different people here in pisa. 
I know a lot of people here but even more people know me. 

So yesterday i got myself a phone and now i will continue blogging and probably make even more photos because with a phone its a lot easier.

So far 1401 km.


Monday, June 16, 2014

Scary animals and rain

Surprisingly i did left from Grosseto in friday morning even though the fever was back.
So the first 5 km was very dizzy for me and  i couldn't understand a lot about what was going on. But with the heat and pressure i sweated all the poisons out and after that it was okey.

And for the first time the roads had smaller paraler pedestrian paths.



And i really liked it because for the first time i could listen music while i was walking and the km started to come a lot faster.

Also they had nice stop points.


And in the evening i finally made it to a point where i saw the end of the endless wheat fields.



There in the mountains it was beautiful but because it was night time i don't have any photos.
But at the same time it was quite scary because on the both sides of the road there was a forest. And i could hear a lot of big animals right next to me but i couldn't see them and know if they are dangerous or not.
But that put the adrenaline flowing which is pretty useful when you are tired and the legs don't want to move anymore.

I guess i should get myself some epinephrine (those who have seen the movie Crank will understand).

And when i got out from the forest, then for the first time i was happy to see a wheat field because i felt safe to fell a sleep.


The last view from the mountains in the morning.

Around two a clock i had a nice lunch and chat with this couple.


They had seen me before on the road and when they saw me passing the restaurant they invited me to join with them.

After that i was walking on the edge of a thunderstorm all day long.


But in the evening it finally caught up with me.
And it was one of the biggest thunder storms I've seen here in Italy. I tough that its not probably a good idea to walk with that on the open fields so i cuted my planned walk a lot shorter and instead of the planned 3 days it took me 4 days to get to Livorno.

I slept in a bus station but it was pretty much like sleeping under an open sky because the roof let all the water through and i still woke up soaking wet.


The next day i had heavy winds and a little bit of rain again but this time i found myself a good place to sleep.



I actually don't watch football but here in Italy its almost impossible to not know that the world cup is on. You can see all the time somewhere an italian flag.





And today the last 10 km to Livorno was amazing.







Here in Livorno i have been just walking around and haven't done not much else.
Also found a place to sleep where is wifi.

So far 1369 km.


Friday, June 13, 2014

Everything

Saturday morning ( after the last post) when i woke up i still didn't have any water or food and after 5 km of walking i found a city (by that time it was already 20 km with out water or food).  And it felt like a paradise! I got food and water and had a chance to buy the supply as well.

And on the road there wasn't nothing interesting again and at the evening i arrived in grosseto.

I have to say that facebook gives some fame. Many people recognized me because when i was in Rome i met a girl from Grosseto and that photo went to facebook.

In Grosseto i met a lot of cool persons and had a good night.

These to guys even offered me place to sleep, but because it was in the outskirts of grosseto i preferred to sleep on the streets (i think I'm getting to cosy on the streets


So i slept in the center of grosseto.


In the next day i went to discover the old town of Grosseto.






In the evening i met with these guys who were really awesome. The one on the right is 21 and already owns 3 restaurants.


They suggested that we could go to the beach on the next day and so we did.





In the evening we went to the bar where we met. 



And there is also a really cool bartender.


I also met a very nice women over there who bought me many beers.


In the next morning i had some usual problems with the police.
They checked my documents and said that its not good to sleep in the center of Grosseto.

After that i had a plan to go to Rocchette.
I heard about that place in the beach and when they said that you can do cliff diving over there it was decided.

I only knew a name of the place and i didn't had any idea where it was.
So in that day there was a lot of asking from the people where do i have to go( half of them didn't knew the place and nobody knew the place where you can cliff dive).

So on that day i took 2 buses and even got off from the wrong stops, walked and even hitchhiked myself to the back of a truck.


And after 6 hours even though it was only 30 km away i finally made it.



Behind the castle is the spot, but on that day i didn't went to there because it was already late and the sun wasn't that hot any more.



So i went to the beach bar in the huge camping facility to sit down. There i got wifi passwords, showers and everything.


And reason all that was possible was that it was just so big that nobody knew that i wasn't a client and the ones who did know didn't care.

In that night i slept in the shower room (there where a lot of these and you could lock the door). 

But in the next morning i had a fever, cough and everything else.

I was so ill that i was even ready to pay 8 euros for a shitty tent spot so i could just sleep.


So on that day i mostly slept and when i wasn't sleeping i was eating healthy things and curing myself.

In the next morning i got a big surprise because it turned out that we had some misunderstanding when talking about the price.
They said that one person in a place with no electricity is 8 euros but they forgot to mention that a tent spot is also 15 euros.
So i ended up paying 23 euros for that.
I guess that's why they only accept payments in the morning.

But in the next morning i felt a lot better and only had a sore throat.
And that i cured the estonian way.
A class of vodka.


Few hours after that i felt good enough to go to the place where you could do cliff diving.



And it was just epic.


The only problem was that  the water was only 2,5 meters deep and after that started the rock bottom.
That means when you jump, you have to land with a splash to not go in to deep. And from 12 meters to land with a splash can be a bit painful.

But other than that it was good.

Now I'm back in Grosseto and it only took 1 and a half hours to get here.

I plan to leave friday morning but i already know that the plans doesn't want to work out for 

So far 1233 km.