Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Germany, Spain, Italy and Portugal
{19th January to April 26th}
Ok I love the LT and I love Dalia, but I need to travel...more after all those months spent at home. As always I live two lives in one, the first wants to have a stable home and a cute girlfriend like I had in LT, the other one need to walk long distances, visit new places and meet always new people able to tell their stories!
So here me again flayng towards Frankfurt Hahn airport, where Cristen, hc memeber I found living really close to the airport, picked my up and brought me to his place for the night, nice chat some indian food and german beers :) next day hh to Mainz, where another member was waiting for me, Daniel! He became a really nice friend I stopped by in my future visit in this region. We spent together really nice time..speaking about life and loves...and we also met a sicilian guy spoiled from 20 years leaving in germany! poor guy :) but was funny to have a 50 anniversary of Daniel's kindergarten. We also visited Frankfurt! http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/Frankfurt
After that, flying towards Malaga!
Then moved to a little village close by where a CS memeber was waiting for me. Watta surprice when I found out this guy was one of the first dj using the first mixer ever invented, in London. And a chef for 30 years!
So he decided that my propose to have an indian meal, could be extended over 30 people his friends :) nice idea and 6 hours cooking in his kitchen, with all the tools I hever wanted to cook with!
That evening was nice! http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainMalaga
Then I left to Granada...where I was hosted first from a danish cs member, quiet boring, she was always outside with friends and never invited me with her, then I called new people from HC and one of them connected me with her flatmate where I dropped by for the last nice night! So funny people! but I have just pics form the city http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainGranada
Now thanks to Ryanair I got ticket for free to reach my friends in Milan and Rome!! Was just perfect cos I was missing them so damn much!! So I went to Milan first and I spend 10 days with Faust, Zeist, Molly, Dax, Cava, JW... playing Mage and have fun around :)
Flew to Rome where I met Manis from HC NL who was waiting Catflower HC Moscow and her friend. Plus Marco Lanza was around with Enrico Platania (friends from Sicily I grew up with). Plus of Plus, Master and Case (cyberpunk2020 group) where going to pick me up, so we went all together to the Frascette, to eat real roman style! Of course russian girls didnt like the idea to be in the poshy italy and eat in plastic dishes! Why people travel?? mystery :)
So I spent a week with Master at Sergent's home, really Rome center! playing CP2020 and going to the mongolian restaurant we love so much :)
Flew back to Milan where I spent some more days with Faust and the gang :)
At the train station , when I was taking the bus to the airport , my pda and my mobile got stoled by pickpocket..shit happens.
Back in Granda without mobile, but I found a so so so nice home with hc member organizing Carnival! Was a funny night watching this crazy spanish calculating how many liters of alchool ... and so on :)
From Granada bus to Algesiras, then to El Colorado, Conil de la Frontera.
Here , after a night in my first hotel after so long time (18 euro!!! gosh) , I meet the english family I woofed with (http://www.wwoof.org/). I didnt like that much my first woofing experience, but I had great asian food cooked there, cos the lady was in love with asian food almost as much as I am as well :) the accomodation was clean but I was sleeping in the upper bunk of the double bed, 5 cm far from our little separeted house woodden roof. And I did weeding for a week. That was boring and I didnt learn anything about gardening!
So when it started to rain they say "We dont need you anymore, bye bye". Well I am really flexible as always, but I am used to be a friend of people I stay at, not just the help you can need or not. Plus it was raining and it was carneval weekend. But I was so bored I let them brought me in Conil where I got the bus to Cadiz, I spent there few hours and I had to move to Seville, cos nobody could host me at that very time :(
In Seville I found a nice argenitian women whom hosted me for couple of nights and showed me around, and I have to say I really loved Seville, maybe my favourites city in Spain till now.
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainSevilla
From Seville I did my first hh alone to Portugal and was nice and fast! I reached Tavira where another hc friend was waiting :)
This guy was just amazing, so in love with this butho jp girl, and so keen in athmosperize everything around him! we went to the hills where is loved to spend some times, then around the natural park and some nice restaurant, or at home tasting chees wine and bread, and talking about love! wow! I hope your dream will be come true!
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalTavira
Next portuguese village was Olhao, where this time my hc host gave the house's keys to his friend and she gave to me when we met :)
I spent the weekend alone at home, and then I met the owner of that nice flat :) He was in Germany for see the last time his girlfriend before she left to India!
So I spent there a really day-lazy week but so nice evening , and I meet all my host's friends, so cool and warm people! Of course even here i took over the kithchen :D
Wonderful visit the Farol, the island few kms far from Olhao shore...and I swim when in LT was snowing! nobody in the beach!
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalOhlao
Then I hhed towards north, and I arrived in Stubal, where I meet Paulo, my host there :) he took care of me like my second father and gave me a deep view in business behaind the scenes in Portugal! We been visiting the castles around the area and nice clubs and restaurants as you can see from the last pics in the section :P
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalStubal
Ok I love the LT and I love Dalia, but I need to travel...more after all those months spent at home. As always I live two lives in one, the first wants to have a stable home and a cute girlfriend like I had in LT, the other one need to walk long distances, visit new places and meet always new people able to tell their stories!
So here me again flayng towards Frankfurt Hahn airport, where Cristen, hc memeber I found living really close to the airport, picked my up and brought me to his place for the night, nice chat some indian food and german beers :) next day hh to Mainz, where another member was waiting for me, Daniel! He became a really nice friend I stopped by in my future visit in this region. We spent together really nice time..speaking about life and loves...and we also met a sicilian guy spoiled from 20 years leaving in germany! poor guy :) but was funny to have a 50 anniversary of Daniel's kindergarten. We also visited Frankfurt! http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/Frankfurt
After that, flying towards Malaga!
Then moved to a little village close by where a CS memeber was waiting for me. Watta surprice when I found out this guy was one of the first dj using the first mixer ever invented, in London. And a chef for 30 years!
So he decided that my propose to have an indian meal, could be extended over 30 people his friends :) nice idea and 6 hours cooking in his kitchen, with all the tools I hever wanted to cook with!
That evening was nice! http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainMalaga
Then I left to Granada...where I was hosted first from a danish cs member, quiet boring, she was always outside with friends and never invited me with her, then I called new people from HC and one of them connected me with her flatmate where I dropped by for the last nice night! So funny people! but I have just pics form the city http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainGranada
Now thanks to Ryanair I got ticket for free to reach my friends in Milan and Rome!! Was just perfect cos I was missing them so damn much!! So I went to Milan first and I spend 10 days with Faust, Zeist, Molly, Dax, Cava, JW... playing Mage and have fun around :)
Flew to Rome where I met Manis from HC NL who was waiting Catflower HC Moscow and her friend. Plus Marco Lanza was around with Enrico Platania (friends from Sicily I grew up with). Plus of Plus, Master and Case (cyberpunk2020 group) where going to pick me up, so we went all together to the Frascette, to eat real roman style! Of course russian girls didnt like the idea to be in the poshy italy and eat in plastic dishes! Why people travel?? mystery :)
So I spent a week with Master at Sergent's home, really Rome center! playing CP2020 and going to the mongolian restaurant we love so much :)
Flew back to Milan where I spent some more days with Faust and the gang :)
At the train station , when I was taking the bus to the airport , my pda and my mobile got stoled by pickpocket..shit happens.
Back in Granda without mobile, but I found a so so so nice home with hc member organizing Carnival! Was a funny night watching this crazy spanish calculating how many liters of alchool ... and so on :)
From Granada bus to Algesiras, then to El Colorado, Conil de la Frontera.
Here , after a night in my first hotel after so long time (18 euro!!! gosh) , I meet the english family I woofed with (http://www.wwoof.org/). I didnt like that much my first woofing experience, but I had great asian food cooked there, cos the lady was in love with asian food almost as much as I am as well :) the accomodation was clean but I was sleeping in the upper bunk of the double bed, 5 cm far from our little separeted house woodden roof. And I did weeding for a week. That was boring and I didnt learn anything about gardening!
So when it started to rain they say "We dont need you anymore, bye bye". Well I am really flexible as always, but I am used to be a friend of people I stay at, not just the help you can need or not. Plus it was raining and it was carneval weekend. But I was so bored I let them brought me in Conil where I got the bus to Cadiz, I spent there few hours and I had to move to Seville, cos nobody could host me at that very time :(
In Seville I found a nice argenitian women whom hosted me for couple of nights and showed me around, and I have to say I really loved Seville, maybe my favourites city in Spain till now.
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/SpainSevilla
From Seville I did my first hh alone to Portugal and was nice and fast! I reached Tavira where another hc friend was waiting :)
This guy was just amazing, so in love with this butho jp girl, and so keen in athmosperize everything around him! we went to the hills where is loved to spend some times, then around the natural park and some nice restaurant, or at home tasting chees wine and bread, and talking about love! wow! I hope your dream will be come true!
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalTavira
Next portuguese village was Olhao, where this time my hc host gave the house's keys to his friend and she gave to me when we met :)
I spent the weekend alone at home, and then I met the owner of that nice flat :) He was in Germany for see the last time his girlfriend before she left to India!
So I spent there a really day-lazy week but so nice evening , and I meet all my host's friends, so cool and warm people! Of course even here i took over the kithchen :D
Wonderful visit the Farol, the island few kms far from Olhao shore...and I swim when in LT was snowing! nobody in the beach!
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalOhlao
Then I hhed towards north, and I arrived in Stubal, where I meet Paulo, my host there :) he took care of me like my second father and gave me a deep view in business behaind the scenes in Portugal! We been visiting the castles around the area and nice clubs and restaurants as you can see from the last pics in the section :P
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek2/PortugalStubal
Xmass in Lithuania.... Su Kaledos! (happy Xmass)
{from 1st October to 19th January}
Back to LT after hhin around east Europe and my beloved Liszo. Finally what I was looking for! I real Lithuanian Xmass, my first abroad!
Ok then...12 dishes mainly based on fish and salads, plus kiss kiss (papaver's seeds) milk with little balls of bread also with kiss kiss seeds inside. But! We have two families, so in the same day (24th Dec) we been eating at the first family from 12.00 to 4.00pm , then at 5pm Edita brought us at the second family, so we had angain 12 dishes, more or less the same amazingly good food!!! I was to explode!
Difference with Italy: after eating , if you wanna receive your gift from Santa (one of the family member dresses up) you must say something (joke, poem, song...whatever) in front of the family that will laught at and with you :)
It was nice! I said how I was happy to be there and how I appreciate to be part of those families...all in lithuanian of course!
on 25th almost the same but just one family..thanks
on 26th with friends dancing crazy at Dalia's flat...wherever else? :) also Tiziano where dancing! wow... I was too exausted from the days before, but was a really nice night, when also we wrote down our whises for the future year :) Edita and me ideas :D
The rest of the months (yep almost four months!) was more or less the standard time I had in LT, laid back..really back , some concerts, lithuanian lenguages classes, lots of indian cooking and movies at home with or without my lovely Dalyte
Back to LT after hhin around east Europe and my beloved Liszo. Finally what I was looking for! I real Lithuanian Xmass, my first abroad!
Ok then...12 dishes mainly based on fish and salads, plus kiss kiss (papaver's seeds) milk with little balls of bread also with kiss kiss seeds inside. But! We have two families, so in the same day (24th Dec) we been eating at the first family from 12.00 to 4.00pm , then at 5pm Edita brought us at the second family, so we had angain 12 dishes, more or less the same amazingly good food!!! I was to explode!
Difference with Italy: after eating , if you wanna receive your gift from Santa (one of the family member dresses up) you must say something (joke, poem, song...whatever) in front of the family that will laught at and with you :)
It was nice! I said how I was happy to be there and how I appreciate to be part of those families...all in lithuanian of course!
on 25th almost the same but just one family..thanks
on 26th with friends dancing crazy at Dalia's flat...wherever else? :) also Tiziano where dancing! wow... I was too exausted from the days before, but was a really nice night, when also we wrote down our whises for the future year :) Edita and me ideas :D
The rest of the months (yep almost four months!) was more or less the standard time I had in LT, laid back..really back , some concerts, lithuanian lenguages classes, lots of indian cooking and movies at home with or without my lovely Dalyte
Monday, July 02, 2007
Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Poland
{Whole September 2007} At the end of august I left Lithuania nad I took part of a german HC camp in the little village of Kloden. There I found a travel companion, Sandra from Lithuania. With her we visited Dresden, then Prague, at Robbo's place, a guy from Amaerca I hosted in Padova few times. Prague was nice but I liked more Brno, cos less tourist crowd and a really wierd house we were hosted in ;) After Brno we reached Budapest, where Bea ( a girl I hosted in Sicily ) showed us the city with a really good historical guide! Then I splitted from Sandra and I reached Dan , my australian friend, who bought two wine yards in a little little village close to Balaton lake. There we had a nice and famly harvest, lots of fun and wine...Liszo, the village, it's a tiny paradise with no english speakers..but heart speakers. There I always felt at home!
I convinced Dan to come back to me in Lithuania, but he stopped in Krokow, where he found a nice gril who hosted us and show around this amazing place! One of the best I visited in Poland. I left them there and I took a train to LT, cos I was missing too much Dalia :P
I convinced Dan to come back to me in Lithuania, but he stopped in Krokow, where he found a nice gril who hosted us and show around this amazing place! One of the best I visited in Poland. I left them there and I took a train to LT, cos I was missing too much Dalia :P
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Lithuania living and leaving
Today, after almost one year living in Lithuania, I'm moving away...at 15.00 I'll take the bus to Riga (Latvia) to start the travel across the globe...
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Lithuania
After Sicily we flew back to Padova where in the same night we took the bus to Lithuania. My first experience on a so long bus journey, but thanks to Dalia and to the idea I was going to live in LT, all this was really easyer that I thought.
Spent almost a month around the country, meeting parents and friends, visiting new places and enoying lithuanian forest and lakes. I will never forget the wonderfull sodyba (house lake) close to Druskinikai, a gorgeouse termal city.
Spent almost a month around the country, meeting parents and friends, visiting new places and enoying lithuanian forest and lakes. I will never forget the wonderfull sodyba (house lake) close to Druskinikai, a gorgeouse termal city.
Quitting the job
Almosto you year ago....on 1st July 2006 I quitted my job and 22 days after I left my house. Everything packed in my little car (the white Panda young) , from Padove to Bologna where I left the car to my bro and I took the train to Sicily. With me my girlfriend Dalia :) her first time in Sicily!!! Thanks her quitting everything was easyer...but still I was dreaming that moment for soooo long!
here our trip to sicily and the last days in Padova:
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek/MEDInCatania
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek/Sicily2006
here our trip to sicily and the last days in Padova:
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek/MEDInCatania
http://picasaweb.google.com/psytek/Sicily2006
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Let's begin!
Hi guys!
here my story: I was fat and tecnichan, stuck in the box (office) in a really nice and gray city called Padova for 3 years long. My job wasnt that bad, mostly cos I've always dreamed to work in computer field helping people out with their pc cos I like to solve problems and keep my mind busy looking for the "why" something can happens. After 3 years I understood that happens cos people dont care about exploring the medium they work with, they dont care to expand their skill in what they are doing till will exist somebody who care to fix disasters they create. And, amazingly, they do same disasters day after day, year after year. Quiet boring isnt it?
Plus, working in the office where 90% of the people are involved in something you are not intreasted like Finance and Auditing (that means "how companies do their huge money business") , talking just about same topics about their job, isnt not the right way to make friends in my case. Fortunaltely a positive side of this job it's the salary, that even if not so much, allowed me to start thinking about another dream I'v always had: a travel to Japan!
Then I was almost to giving 2.500 euros for a trip in JP 2 weeks long, and a good friend of me suggest to look for a cheapest way to reach that country. Then I asked to uncle google if there was family who can host me in Japan, so I asked for "hospitality Japan", and ...TadàN!! The second rank it was www.hospitalityclub.org
I singed up and immediately I start to chat in its chatroom. There I met lot of people enthusist about travelling. But to log on it was taking too much time , then people in the chat suggested to sing in www.couchsurfing.com !! Wow I couldnt believe about those websites! People who can host you for free and show you around their town! Just what I was thinking to do throught IRC chat, but these were better cos well organized!
While I was chatting a girl from India (Bangalore) asked me to being hosted with his housband (hc nick: snjumodi). Of course I said! I was so excited! I went to pick them up in Venice and wolk around all day long. Then I hosted them in my flat just for one night but they invited me in their "european headquarter" in Paris! Oh great! Just few second after I was booking the flight! :D
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