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Well , fate is a bitch but an interesting one
had to rush to Europe to bury my mother
it was a typical country affairs . cousins , grand cousins , catching up with siblings
checking on all the little ones who now had kids of their own
it was no so much the mourning of an end as the...
There was a constant chorus of birds from 3 in the morning to 11 evening , frogs , insects ....
the forest was in full growth , the shades and shapes were shifting in the dappled light
a beast would change into a branch , a bird transform into a shadow
pretty easy to feel the Shaman...
Yes does ring a bell , didn't see too much beside Narva and a few place , the Ilka-Oandu RMK is pretty much all in the forest , Hikkers told me the Baltic coast is great and would make a great Santiago path.
what was interesting was the change in the trees , Estonia RMK was pines , around Lithuania oaks started to appears , Poland and Germany had elms and others species the more West on goes the more diverse the Forests were , had a 6km stretch along a path planted with Cheries trees every five...
.There were still ice in the rivers and patches of snow on the northern side of the hills , there was no tundra that
I could see , it was birch trees and swampy ground mostly , after the Urals there were flowers and the trees were budding the change was over the six days of Transiberian travel
I...
I forgot most of the names but Kaunas stand in the memory , slept in a covent smack on the central place of the old town , used google-maps a lot and yes it's a lovely countryside , there were storks everywhere
while Siberia was still in the grip of late winter , as I progressed West the seasons...
it took me a bit more than two months , I usually take the urban transport when I get to a big city , the suburbs are such a drag , but leave from the center on foot , it feel good to see the city clearing out
the best was walking out of Nuremberg , there is a long walk along a canal , very...
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Just back from Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania Poland ,Germany , Switzerland , France
It has been a long walk !!
started in Vilnius at the Gate of dawn Chapel , there wasn't much info for Estonia and Latvia and didn't try too much , did the RMK walk in the Estonian forest ( 360 Km ) and it was...
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