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Technically... Spring has Sprung, it's now light when I leave for work in the morning and when I get home at night, wonderful. To me that means Summer, but then I only believe in 2 seasons; Summer and Winter. That's need-a-coat and don't-need-a-coat weather.  Walk-briskly-on-the-beach and stroll-on-the-beach weather.

So having neglected my body horrendously over the past few (12) months, I vow to get back into shape to a point where a short weekend hike won't need 2 weeks annual leave immediately afterwards to recover. So back in the gym I go. read more »

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Widely recognised The North Face athlete and successful mountaineer Mick Fowler has raised vital funds for a Mountain Rescue Team in Scotland through The North Face Summit Series Lecture Tour in conjunction with Tiso the outdoors specialists. read more »

The hope continues with my travels, athough the apparent interest in my journey by some Italian politicians, is going to disappear more and more. That’s why I have decided to grant myself a period of time for thinking things over, whilst doing some activities, such as read more »

If you are really traveling with me from home, then this is your time for move forward a little step in our adventure… read more »

EURASIA PEDIBUS CALCANTIBUS gets its 1ST BIRTHDAY!!! The start-date seems only yesterday, so far, yet so near. Emotions are neverending and inexpressible at the same time. Memories fill the pages of a book that only wait a publisher :) Places, people, colours, flavours. I have walked through the present and history, I continue to move towards the future. 6000 kms, from sea level to mountains full of snow, across 9 nations and various, wonderful cultures. I wanted to celebrate crossing another border line: from Turkey, land of hospitality, to Iran, cradle of monotheism. Instead I'm waiting in Erzurum for 15 days because of whimsy of Iranian Bureaucracy read more »

Peace and Quiet are at the present my travelling companions. ''Happy like an Easter'' (Italian saying) at Christmas :) read more »

Like a modern Ulysses defeated by the gods of a naughty Russian bureaucracy that forbid me walking along the Black Sea, from Ukraine to Georgia. read more »

When between you and the Ukraine there are the Danube and Moldova, you cannot easily cross the border.

When I reached Tulcea (Romania) I discovered that the only chance I have to get from here to the Ukraine is a ferryboat, and it costs 400 euro! and we like walking and travelling cheap. read more »

"Salut"! Forgive my long silence, but I was in... testing. I better explain. Everyone of you knows about my misadventure with Rocinante and about the substitution with a normal backpack. Unfortunately this new way of travelling immediately reveals itself intolerable, so I thought a solution that could have been definitive, at least till the first border. But it wasn't. read more »

MUM I WISH I WAS CAMPING! read more »