There is nobody wouldn't watch the Beach movie.
I can watch it all the time again and again.
However this time I have decided to fulfil my beach dream.
Because my favorite Rainbow gathering happens on the coast of Albania.
Hey dude let's hit the road.
Where are you? -Where are you?
I am getting down. We gotta go right now. Let's go. Ciao.
Yo buddy, hurry up.
Peter beefeater is my age-long neighbour.
2 years ago he got fired so he sold his car
spent 2 monts on Bali.
And now he lives of his saving and enjoys freedom.
Since I got from 30 months hitching trip to Africa
we spent loads of time together.
Out first trip together was not awaiting to long.
Because a day before my departure we met.
And he did have a problem to join my expedition.
Bro we running late.
A bus leaves in 1 min.
Your pants are falling down.
He is driving off.
Get him.
Ohh shit. You must be kidding me.
By the way. Peter is hitchhiking first time in his life.
We are lucky. We hitchhiked Katalyn.
Who transits us through 3 countries to Romania.
I am super stiff.
Along the way he remembers his communist president.
Chauchesko was very good.
One time when he was President of Romania all the people were happy.
And he shows us his execution.
Our friend left his here keys and disappeared
so if we wanted we could steal his car.
After 10 hours ride he left us
on Romanian-Serbian border.
Suddenly he goes bye bye.
We are divided from Serbia brudge over Danube river.
But it cannot be crossed by walking.
Thank you.
So we go on first passing truck.
We are facinated by freedom of dogs
that cross borders as they want.
And nobody even bark on them.
Switch off the light so we sleep in dark.
There those money.
There are no cars. We have been here 2 hours.
I hitchhike in these direction. Peter hitchhikes in that direction.
So we are rocking.
Eventualy we set off to the closest town.
And finnaly we are lucky.
Go, go, go!
Hello.
To center. Ok.
Where are you from? -From Czech Republic.
Peter feeds himself by the food
that provides mother nature itself.
You should have told me we come here for apple harvest.
I bought in discount. -For how much? Two pulls.
We should get lost.
Here is the boss. -Let's ask them if they want too.
Getting lost now.
We got stuck again.
So I am getting smart dress.
Hey dude. Nobody give us lift. I don't know why?
We weren't lucky at all and on top of that came police.
I was here 5 min in arab robe and they run in here and nearly shut us mainly me.
They photocopied our IDs and deleted a video.
Hello. -Hello
We are heading to Kosovo.
To Kosovo? -Yes, yes.
Hitchhiking. -Yes, yes.
You will not get any car here.
Good bye.
Hello. Are you going to Niš? -Hello. Yes I go there.
Vladimir explains us
that in Serbia is currently 100 000 of refugees.
So to wear there arab robe is like to cruising for a bruising.
Here we are in Nis.
Here is like 10 degrees and Peter is in flip flops.
Eaxactly I have big fun here flip flops.
Watch your balls in these swim shorts.
You are right I have no underwear.
We got stock in some village.
We don't want to pay 30 euro for accomodation.
Petrol statiion where we warmed up our asses is closed.
So we warm ourselves up by last stock of food.
It is so cold that we hitchhike even bus.
We hitchhiked a bud right? Yeah finnaly we got a bus.
In order to warm up a bit. -Now I am too warm.
We found some petrol station that is 24/7 so we can warm up ourselves in.
No cars take us it is more difficult than catching fish.
If we can just sit here.
I brush up my Russian and try to arrange sleeping right in petrol station.
Hey Czechs, you don't have a tent. -No we have only sleeping bags.
You are tourists right? Yeah sure.
Kosovo, Kosovo, problem. Terorists.
In a while we get trust and deeply breath out
becuase this night we will not freeze.
Good catch of the discounted room.
I think I will shoot you when you wake up next time to make a revenge.
When it is cold I put on everything I have.
When hitching we don't want to waste time so I change right on the road.
We are 3rd day on the road so a swim in river we need like salt.
He is probably dead.
Dudes drive us to border with Kosovo
and on the way they gave us liquid crop from their garden.
On the border we have first biggy.
They turned us back because I have no passport
Peter has one but I passed through here 3 years ago with ID.
with no problem but this time it didn't work.
Hitching is very difficult, we are tired.
So there is no way will will go back.
At night or now no problem go.
No problem. Now no problem. -Ok.
After consultation we go around the customs.
We have fear. The tension could be cut.
We tell ourselves that hopefully they will not shoot at us.
Let's go to forest.
For a moment I turn to shoot customs from afar
And Peter get suddenly lost.
Peter is making fun of me because he is not here I have no idea where he is.
2 hours past and Peter is still not here.
It is late so I open bonfire
and get ready to stay over.
The wood is infortunatelly wet and only paper I have is bank notes.
I taste Serbian oregano that we got from boys for the road.
The plant starts to be in effect
and I try to process Peter's disappearance in different state of mind.
I believe that he run away from fear.
It must have been difficult for him.
I cannot get such a behaviour.
Hey lads. I survived the night here. Cold one. It was like 5 degrees. It was challanging.
In the morning I continue in illegal border crossing
and after hour I find myself safe and sound in Kosovo.
Holly cow mates. I did. I am in Kosovo.
When suddenly it came and I had the same problem
I didn't have a toilet paper.
I hitchhiked Serbian guy Marko
that narrates me how Srbs go to work to Switzerland.
Many people go to Switzerland so sell drugs.
One boss in Switzerland is from Niš.
People from Niš go to work for him.
gets some monety but
many people they deport
many people don't get money
sometimes you can hear he is dead.
My neighbour go to Switzerland. He is not back.
He is dead.
Because in Serbia we have no money.
And he go to work anywhere any job.
At night I am afraid of wolfs and bears that are everywhere in Balkan mountains.
So I find abandoned house where I sleep over.
It is big adventure to be here in some abandoned house.
No cars take me and suddenly comes dream ride.
From summits covered by snow takes me to Prizen two brothers
that are bigger mafia men than me.
Albania forever.
Thank you. Ciao.
They told me that everybody here has kalashnikov machine guns illegaly.
As you can see the thirst kills by beer in Kosovo not only passangers.
From Vlora takes me Jim.
Who unfortunatelly didn't pull out jim but rather rakija.
The boss is getting me tipsy here.
He said 80%.
So I am burned out here for 2 years.
Cheers. -Cheers.
I am fairly fucked here.
In Albania when they fill the shot you have to finnish it.
Finnish.
Well if only I was pissed nobody would give a shit but...
I am totally pissed here from rakija.
Albania is awesome.
And as it happens one wakes up without knowing where.
It's 6 AM and I camp here on the coast.
I have no idea how I got here. Rakija here is crazy strong.
Hey guys. Check how much junk I carry with me
only so you could be with me here.
in order you are with me here
because for this I breath and for this I am ready to die.
I encoutered some Albanians and we alredy smoke some hasish here.
Cheers.
I exchanged bottle of rakija that I couldn't see at all for that what gives life
and when you have hangover it applies twice - vodu.
I told them you drink rakija and I will drink water.
The best is to talk with people that knows no language.
You use legs and arms, and eat and drink.
I give up.
This one would jab me. He would stick me up.
Black sheep as ussualy out of flock.
We are all sheeps on this planet. Everybody has just different colour.
On rainbow I meet with Peter and find out what happend exactly.
I was already in Kosovo and you were still in Serbia.
The point is that we both thought that the other is kidding.
So we were both punished and probably it should have been like this.
So I had already everything and my beach dream was becoming true.
Well apart from one thing.
I also came here because here should have been Lucy from England.
That I met with on rainbow in Czech.
To which I little bit fell in love.
We wrote each other we shall meet here
however when I arrived they told me that left 3 days ago
which disappointed me and I had little inner fight.
Now it is fine. Here are other girls, right? It is cool.
Be sure that there were but I am too much ahead.
I nearly stop to believe that rainbow exists and finnally I found it.
It is worth it. Who has a time and is free like me.
It is free. It is very free.
Basically you need nothing.
Even that stupid bowl will borrow you somebody.
Even if you come with bare ass.
You borrow matches from somebody, flame up bonfire and you're rocking.
Nice atmosphere by fire when we sang that was realy nice.
Here are good energies.
Bad energies don't come here.
Everyday we should do one thing that we fear.
I will go to swim in this sea.
I fucking did it,
One crazy wave came over and smashed me.
It was just insane,
We return to Tirana.
And Peter hitchhikes everything that moves forward.
We wanted to come with you.
He couldn't get we would come with him. It would be too much.
To Tirana.
Lowcost only. We don't have money.
Only autostop. 5 euro. -5euro?
For us it is too much.
I am sorry.
Place to stay we have arranged in the house of grands of our friend.
According to address paradoxically were not able to find their house both locals and google.
So we ended in a gym of friend of Lukas that helped us.
God we do it in your name. Jesus we pray that you bless their hearts.
Well yeah. Not only that they prayed for us
But bought us even great snack.
For free again.
I go to take a shower after 3 weeks.
So party could go to full extend.
Not only that we first time slept in gym but also worked there.
Clean it proprely I see some blur here.
I spread it here instead of a bread.
So somehow like this looks Czech homeless in Albania.
Eventually we meet with Malvina.
And we go to have fun in gypsy market.
This is for A) Caramel
for B) cream for depilation
and for C) honey for bald
yes D) is right.
Well encouter with grandpa was little bit fuckup
but rakija shot together straighten everything up.
Cheers. -Cheers
To walk around in arab robe I was discouraged by grandpa.
because didn't want the police to come.
to find out that he has guns at house.
I am tourist. Not terrorist.
No police just chill.
Here they come for you.
Peter lawfully deserved facial massage for scarying little kids.
Yo.
It is true.
I again slightly bit myself.
Unless we had the smallest clue we go through
the most beautiful Albanian park Dajti.
Where fortunately its beuty compensate tragical quality of the road.
Thanks to this lifts us up almost every car.
At the expense of the speed that is worse than camel.
Hello. -Hello.
How are you? -How are you?
Bravo. Thank you. Thanks.
Are you tourist. -Yes we are tourists. -I uderstand.
From Czech. -From Czech, right? Yes.
You can guess 3 times what is this.
Down to the situtation we drop from hurried travelling
and we enjoy meeting locals and their incredible hospitality.
This guy not only jumped to the back of the van but also accomodate us in his butchery.
She is done. What can we do?
As vegetarian I say ok. So everybody eats what one wants.
If I don't have to kill myself it's ok for me.
On the orher hand it is organic home bred.
They take good care for it.
One who is able to slaughter it is the one that deserves to eat it.
The most important is to have it natural.
How many times vegetables from supermarket is full of pesticides and it is worse than this sheep.
I think I got some infection to my feet
and I cannot sleep
so I am going to have a joint.
I am pretty tired of this journey.
In the morning we are woken up by wedding ride instead of cock.
This was really nuts. Such crazy ride woth granny in the front
on the road that is maximally for tractor.
Peter licked it like mums pan.
Toilets here have completely everything.
Ok I am just kdding. It is just a hole.
Nothing more. Not even running water or paper.
Luckily I have my stock.
The tap I aimed to my ass and everything worked as it should. Clean ass, all good.
We are up here. Peter is little bit scratched like from cat.
He was little bit egocetrinc to go woth both bags.
And bags so he was little bit punished.
I nicely rolled down but we live only once.
I thought that if not that moutain then I will kill him.
Ravens were getting togeteher to see if there is anything left of me.
Again for free. Again big dinner.
I don't what to say. Just that I will eat well.
Yummi, yummi.
I fairly heated up the floor
And we even met Albanian Kazma.
We are fucked.
Eventually we slept in man's warm house. It was awesome.
With broken heart we eventually leave Albania.
We have 1500 km to get back home
and without having a clue there is big luck coming towards us.
We were lost in some Macedonain national park and then came this guy
and he goes to Germany so he will transit us through 5 countries
We gonna be home soon may be tomorrow.
At the beginnig it wasn't easy to get his trust
because he thought we are drug smugglers.
So he checked us properly out and he rather seized our IDs.
Macedonian - Serbian border.
The boss dropped us here in case we have some drugs.
We now return to Serbia which we left illegally.
It will be fine. I will just go through without showing my ID.
It is done. I just showed this and I am Czech like stone.
Oh shit that alarm is probably not good.
He went under such as scanner that even I would be scared that they find some leftover of alcohol.
Serbian - Hungarian border.
Hungarian - Slovakian border.
Ostrava in Czechia.
We set off without car, map, tent and almost no money.
On the other hand we pack, courage, open heart and a dream.
Dream for freedom, sun, sea, green hapiness and friends.
What the fuck. Do not shoot me you idiot.
The experience we got is priceless.
Our journey made us obstacles that we would never imagine even in the dream.
We could do nothing but face them.
Our lives and friendship were often on the edge.
Although one thing was sure. We had to clench our teeth, dillute our egos, and be more humble.
Only thanks to that we are safe and sound today.
You may say to yourself now that we were lucky. Yes we were.
But only because we went it across.
Our trip will stay in our hearts like a big expedition.
You can make right now even bigger.
We are now taking a rest before next journey.
Don't try it at home.
This was a real shit.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
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