Reise, Reise

There was the Analog before the Digital era. And there was our Crimea before the russians' invasion. Here's me in Tauris at the very beginning of the XXI century. Cape Aja , a unique, sublime rocky place. And deadly, because the rocks fall from time to time and sometimes crazy people  staying   in tents there under the rocks die. Aja Cape is on the shores of the Pontus Euxinus . Closed territory since 2014, exactly as it was during the soviet period.

Paximada is a promontory on the South Euboia. At this point the seasonal summer north wind meltemi , μελτέμι, exceeds 100 km/hour. The sea becomes rough and dynamic, you feel sand and rock dust on your teeth, you can't walk vertically, the air is full of music of spheres, finally, meltemi can just take you like a sand grain and throw into the sea. This almost happened to me once, but I grabbed the air with my terrified hands, and that was what saved me from the falling from the rock. Victim of the small stones shrapnel, I got red bruises on my legs... What an adventure!

Παραδοσιακό πρόβειο γιαούρτι! Do you still buy yogurts and other milk products in the supermarkets? I am not a food designer, but hope this pic will attract and persuade you. This is local yaourti made of sheep milk. We buy it at one kafenio  in K., in Evia. It is different from the one made in Evia, Gymno, and sold in the supermarkets and small pantopoleia.  It is more tasty, more fat, more liquid, with a slight flavor of cinnamon. I would only eat the scum of it... A little bit more expensive: 5 euros for 1 kilo. One kilo for two people is almost nothing, because we finish it the next day. Find the same yogurt on your island and enjoy it!

This name of the place in South-Eastern Evia is translated as the "ancient city". There is no city, and even no village, only some remnants of the old mines and the polis that existed long ago. And a church. It takes about two hours by car (50 km) from Karystos to the tiny village Thymi, composed of around five houses. You have to leave your car on the ground road just above the village, and to walk down taking more water with you because this part of the island is wild, dry and waterless. Do not even dream about taverna or something like that - you will find neither a place to eat nor a shop. This land is completely abandonned, and that's what attracts me so much in it. It seems that the houses in Thymi look and are built exactly according to the ancient houses' model. This is a small bit of the Classical period lost in time. There is a marked path from Thymi. There's nothing difficult in following it, going towards the rocks over the sea. However, when you go...

Un coup d’œil sur la Normandie Jamais, jamais, ou presque, n'écoutez pas votre fatigue, parce que souvent c'est la paresse qui se dissimule sous la masque de la fatigue. Un des weekends, j'ai décidé de me promener à pied, sans la trottinette, pour ne pas faire des efforts. J'ai choisi la chaussée Jules César comme lieu de la promenade, tout près du rail et des gares ; la journée était froide, nuageuse, avec pourtant quelques éclaircies mais aussi du vent du nord. La chaussée va tout droit à Rouen, mais j'ai réussi de me tromper du chemin trois fois. Finalement, je suis rentrée encore plus fatiguée et insatisfaite, et toute la semaine suivante m'a paru une pesanteur insupportable, je me traînais à peine d'un lieu à l'autre, du jour au jour, jusqu'au samedi. La météo promettait le dimanche ensoleillé, et, à l'accueil de la bibliothèque, devant un grand écran que j'aime bien et beaucoup, je me suis mise à l'étude de ma prochaine destinat...

Elle était imprévue, inattendue, cette escapade en fin du janvier à la Côte d'Argent. Sur kelbillet , j'ai vu les billets de bus aller retour à Bordeaux pour 1.98 euros uniquement et décidé tout de suite d'y aller. Il me fallait de réserver encore un logement ; heureusement, je savais quelques bonnes adresses... À mon arrivée, j'ai trouvé Lacanau au cœur de la tempête Gabriel ... le vent était cruel comme jamais ! plus de 100 km / heure avec la pluie et la sable qui perçait le visage, et moi, il me'a fallu marcher 20 minutes pour accéder dans ma résidence Bleue Marine tout au sud de la ville. Bien arrivée, par contre, et bien installée. Mes bottes  ECCO  ECCO achetées en Suisse pour les montagnes et la neige en 2012, étaient toujours sèches, et c'est ça ce qui était le plus important. Rester sèche. Dans une heure ou deux après mon arrivée, j'avais fait quelques tentatives pour me promener et descendre sur la plage - sans succès ! Le vent toujours for...

21 September. The weather was hot, dry and sunny, I was eager to run away from the big city bits. Although I'm mostly sitting in Paris, sitting looks like running. I need to stop, and a walk that lasts for 6 hours is a goood looong stop, as long as 25 kilometers' walk. I started from Juziers, as you already know, and continued till Lainville-en-Vexin, village were I realized this time that the chaos in my head flew away. I was finally here. I didn't make a circle to come back to Juzi ers, but went further to Saint-Cyr-en-Arthies and, via Vienne-en-Arthies, arrived finally to Vétheuil. Last time I was here at the end of November 2018. All the way between Lainville and Vétheuil I wondered where all the people are. As if I were the only walker in the vast space of Vexin. But Vétheuil was rather too noisy, lots of people, lots of changes. Summer was still there, and everyone enjoyed drinks at the local Tabac near the bus stop. I prefer, though, the closer-to-winter we...