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...

I didn't want to end this year on a bad note, because it really doesn't deserve that, which is literally the only reason why I post another blog entry now. So it is also much shorter than usual ;) So, as fate would have it, the very day I posted my last blog entry I sent a few more applications on workaway and literally within an hour I received a positive reply from a lovely lady with two boys who are not allowed to have iPads and who want someone to play footb...

So, this will be a bit different from what you are used to... I played a very bad football match yesterday (training match against a boys' team so I was allowed to play for a bit). This happens, so it would not be worth reporting. Had it not had a rather big effect on me. So I went home all frustrated, as I do when I play a bad game. But, well, I am not the youngest any more and I started to wonder if I am maybe just not good any more. And if I should either sto...

This is approximately my fifth try at this blog entry. I've already said, I want to respect the privacy of the family I am staying with and since I am working with kids it is rather difficult to write much about my work. When I am not looking after naughty kids, I work at my computer mainly, which is not so exciting either, so you don't want to read about it. Of course, you want to read about life in Turkey. I guess, the truth is: I find it so hard to write becau...

Now, I do understand that my blog doesn't usually talk about these things too much, but this time, I just couldn't stop myself. This seems too big, too terriying to not write about it. Also, I have been wanting to write a blog entry about my new life here in Turkey for weeks - I started two already and gave up again - but I have not really come to terms on what to write. There are two reasons for that: one is that I respect the privacy of the family I am staying...