We reached Orestiada and there we finished with some last details and safety preparations(papers).After our last cup of tea in Kastanies we passed the borders and reached the beautiful Edirne.
Colourful people working happily in the green spring fields.The trees,the amazing natural perfumes,a cool breeze from the river Ardas create a longing for beaury.
Edirne,full of colours,so vivid with images and sounds,the gate to the mystical East.We left,with the promise in my heart to return and wander unseen discovering the hidden treasures of the city.
Crossing once more the borders to Bulgaria through Kapikule we reached the country of sadness,of abandonment...an ex-eastern block god forsaken countryside.High buildings are the witnesses that communism passed from here and left its ugly mark
forever.Architectural madness without respect for natural landscapes and anarchy are shaping the new european vision.Colourless boxes...but you can always discover beauty even there!
40km before Burgas and a deep forest starts on the sides of the hole-road...all this grace made me forget of the sadness..The forest stayed with us for about 100km and then the Black Sea came to join us.
Tiredness appeared suddenly 100km before our first goal,Varna.I couldnt feel where my ass starts and where my legs end from the stagnant blood.Sitting on the back of our fellow friend,the BANDIT for over than 500km is a hard job for me.Standing straight,keeping my neck from the air and the speed pressure,my back hurts and i have to change positions in a limited space,everytime we fall into a hole which is more than often my lower back is threaten to depart forever...but i love it!!!!
With meditation on the road i find my ways to overcome the difficulties of the body and i realise how wide are the limitations and how you can surrender to pain and make new limits for your body.
We reached Varna,a city with beauty and elegance finally!One of the most rich cities in Bulgaria with painted villas all around and many hotels.We are in front of Joliot-Curie,our hotel for the first night...."a hotel for scientists".Inside the forest and few meters from the Black Sea.Our room on the 9th floor(12 floor hotel,a hotel left from the communism),number 91...two walls and two wallwindows with view on the eastern black sea....AMAZING VIEW!!!!
It is the air's safe nest up here!,i thought
Even with all this tiredness a walk on the windy beach is recommended,Yiannis even went for jogging while i was walking and breathing the black Sea.Its a different Sea from the mediterranean,its more like an enormous lake than a Sea.Its a unique feeling...i always wanted to see her beauty.Its a mystical Sea.
.....and then finally a deep restful sleep comes suddenly...
total journey for the first day in km 508km,11 hours on the BANDIT!
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