Tesla pride

Every respectful #Balkan country hurry to be proud of Nikola# Tesla. Because he is their guy. #Croatia, #Montenegro, #Albania, #Serbia, #Bosnia and even #Macedonia are pretending to own this guy.
What do you think, who have right to name him as "our guy"? Maybe #physics?

Greece, part 2

If you started to travel, it's really hard to stay in one place for a long time - you need to change locations, see something new and feel different emotions. It's like constant war: still, comfort, concentration, dip from one side and easyness, diversity, curiosity, move, communication from other.
So me moved extra grain on mobile bowl of weights and we moved.
To #Patras!
Along the #sea and with 2 stops.
Forest one was near town of #Astakos. Nice small beach under the steep rocky slope. The weather is ☀️ and warm. Small Town is extremely cute. So we had dinner there and some competitions with "Artakos bouldering table" 🧗🐸

Sea at the morning is so welcoming. Travel to #Aitoliko - small town on the island. Lunch there (uh, now we recall how hard it could be to find a place to eat in EU at Sunday). And another competition: try to hit the coffee cup on the top of the road sign with the friend's shoe. Extremely funny but also hard. Need more practice 😅

Looking for the place to stay for the night we went to sea. But it was too stormy and too much wind. So we went other side - to the mountains. After some explorations we found small church on the peak of the 🗻. Very beautiful view, nice place around and... It was hard decision, but we agreed to sleep inside of the church. No wind and warmer... Nice option. We expected some guests at evening or morning, but nobody came. Not much religion left here or just coincidence?

Greece, part 1

We were in hurry to get to #Greece from #Albania. It's not like Albania is bad, but Greece it's Greece - our goal, land of dreams. Sunny and warm...
And the first day started awesome - we picked up 3 #hitchhikers on our way to #Ioannina. They appeared to be #travellers from France and Norway going... who knows where. Around the globe. So, we went into deep conversation about journeys. In Ioannina we split. But one girl, Noemi, stayed with us for some travels. So from now on we are in five.
First night we spent in town with Italian name #Preveza. Actually it was 4 night, but we understood it later. Very cute city near the sea. Old town, ancient ruins of #Nikshich nearby, orange gardens and eucalyptus forests. After accommodation in apartments we moved to seaside and put our camp in eucalyptus groove. Breakfast on the beach, exploring nearby nature and architecture, nights near the fire. That was amazing time.

And dogs. Did of Greece are amazingly friendly. Home or homeless, doesn't matter. They are glad to see you. That's really cool.

Moving deeper

Difference between staying on the sea coast and staying 10 km deeper into the land is significant. Sea makes air much wormer and pleasant. And small but constant wind dry the tent from inside. And it still available for swimming 🏊

Short about Montenegro

When you go away from there seacoast in Montenegro you start to feel spirit of Ukraine. Roads are not Ukrainian. And other infrastructure looks better. But in other meanings...
Car parking, garbage stocking, people's dress, store of houses.
Look at Nikšić. It is very similar to Zhytomyr. Maybe little better in average, cleaner, less noisy... But the spirit is there same. You feel Zgitomyrness everywhere.
Podgorica, the capital. But it still looks like Ukrainian province city: huge one store buildings area and center with shopping streets and casinos (but here - legal). Kinda depressing commute between bad village and shopping mall. No other fun. Only hipster and artist points from time to time bring some light to this sad daily trip.
Montenegrian nature? Cool.
Town on the shore? Beautiful.
But other still need a lot of work to be pretty.

Nomadic life

- Antony, why you've chosen travels?
- Because when I'm not I feel bad.

Some say that moving home is equal to 2 fire accidents. It's hard to get out of sweet home sometimes. But if you start...
Road give you the feel of fullness in your life. You have some goal, some aim. Something important but reachable. You feel happy although it can be hard. But, as we aleady know, overcoming the difficulties brings you joy. And something to remember.

Less monte, more negro!

Ukrainians, trying to make some money, cut and export woods
But montenegrians... They just cut the mountains! They climb into the top of the mountain and start to drill and saw and remove the mountain piece by piece. Looks like ants disassembling big cake.

Sea, cliffs and some

Morning in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The have very strange mountain roads - very narrow, so only one car can pass. But the are two ways and marked as pretty big road in other countries. Looks like they are rebuilding their life after troubles and reached pretty good results. But still... a lot of space to improve. Although, nature here is beautiful and prices are quiet low. So we had great lunch and full tank.

We came to Croatia for the last time to see #Dubrovnik. Do you know it? Maybe you've seen it in Game of Thrones? But it is really nice old town (that is actually a castle or fortress) and harbor around. Would be a great bonus if you like computer games and medieval style.

Croatia has beautiful towns on near the sea and they know it's valuable. So visiting them will be valuable for you too. I mean expensive )) But not that bad as in Italy.

Our next goal is #Montenegro. Chorna Gora. Not that black as we've seen so far. More like 50 Shades of Gray Gora. Steep slopes with rocky mountains create beautiful views on the edge of land and sea.

Local language uses mix of Latin and Cyrillic letters creating strange combination. But if you know both of them - it's not that hard to read and understand more or less. Language looks like mix of Polish and Russian with Turkish flavor. It appeard, that knowledge of some Cyrillic  languages is very useful in Balkan countries. Not for speaking, but for understanding. And, of course, for a lot of fun. when you try to understand words.

Out of Trogir

Day on the road is a good day.
Day on the road near seaside is double as good.

So, today we are on the way from #Trogir to #Bosnia and Herzogovina. We will stick close to the #sea, so we can jump into it any moment. The weather today is really good - much wormer then before and sun+clouds create a beautiful view.

We arrived to #Makarska. Small town on our way. Time to have small lunch and swim. There is nice park near the see, so we want to explore it.

On our way to park we went to harbor and then we found new task and game: grab the ring in the harbor wall and go down. So you are as low as possible, but not in the water. We tried to do that stuff in Split but didn't finished - it was too scary to do it. But here it wasn't a city center, we can pull down our pants in case of emergency 🌝😏

And we succeeded! Hooray!

Then it was a long walk in beautiful park. It finished with nude beach with no people and it's own waterfall. Wow, that place is absolutely amazing!

Sun goes down. We passed Bosnian border and stopped at our next place. Can't see much - it's dark and we are tired. Tomorrow we will explore space nearby and later we are going to Dubrovnik.