Okay, I know, I still owe you a final blog from Colombia and the confession, that I am actually back in Europe. Now, here they are both.I spent the last month in Colombia (which was September) working at a coffee finca close to Pereira. Which means I could still go to football trainings and meet my friends from Pereira but I was living close to the middle of nowhere, which, as I found out, is actually a really pretty place. With lots of colourful birds. Even thou...

I haven't written for some time, because, quite simply, there isn't really anything to say. I am staying with an Italian family with two boys, in the countryside, close to Milano. My life here couldn't be more different from the life in Turkey. In Turkey, quite frankly, the family I was staying with, inhabited a different world, a world I didn't know and had no desire to get to know. A world where, sad to say, humans didn't seem to count for much, and material po...

So, I am in Italy now. It probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that my journey here did not go at all as planned: I had really, really wanted to cycle again those nice 100 or so kilometres in Greece. But the day that I was supposed to be there it was basically raining heavily all the time - at least according to the weather forecast. So I had to change my plans and decided to instead cycle the not so nice part of the way. Which also meant cancelling my cou...