söndag 5 maj 2019

5 May. At last. I am at the foot of the western Rodopi mountains and tomorrow
morning the walking starts from the village of Debrsjtitsa. Today in the mid-
sized town of Pazardzijk the cherries are almost red and in the bazaar (Pazar!)
there was an abundance of locally grown strawberries

31 December 2018.
This year, the fifth of my walking from Sweden to Greece, ends in  ...Australia. Our daughter Elin gave birth to Althea on 6 May and we are on a visit, my wife and I. Because of a mishap, I could not go as planned to Bulgaria again for the fourteenth stretch of my walking.


Here in the Sydney-Parramatta area the temperature of my last two walks in southern Romania and northern Bulgaria at +27-28°C is outnumbered by ten degrees. Today +37°C and tomorrow +38°C. So walking here is tricky. Firstly, Sydney is growing and growing fast (2013 by 467 000 inhabitants). But the area is, nevertheless, spaced with nature reserves and various bushwalks along the creeks.