Journey to the Promised Land 2022
After a few years of teaching, my feet got itchy again. So I packed a tent, a guitar and a few more things on the bike and headed for the Promised Land. I was very curious about all the countries and cultures on the way, and have long wished to spend some time in Israel.
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The plan is to meet my father in Albania in a few weeks. Someone recommended me to visit Kotor Bay in Montenegro. The bay is actually a double bay and stunningly surrounded by high mountain ranges covered in thick rain clouds. All of a sudden, there a rarely German member plates on the cars anymore. Instead, tourists here are from Russia, Serbia or Bulgaria. I spend two rainy days resting in a small apartment just outside the city center of Kotor. The streets of the fancy medieval city center are tiled with big marble tiles and become very slippery in the rain these days. Every days a big cruise ship anchors in the bay, overlooking the city walls and churches by far. Flocks a tourists flush through the streets for a few hours then. Since there is heavy rain predicted for the next few days along the coast, I decide to move inland where the forecast is better.



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When I show my passport at the border from Albania to Greece, an official starts singing "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles". It takes me a moment to realize what is going on. I laugh and say "Thanks but no". He smiles and waves me through.
There is only a highway after the border, and a rough gravel road. I take the later towards Kastoria and enjoy the first night in that neat town with a charming old centre. On small roads I move on to Meteora. There a many shrines on the roadside that look like small churches. I learn about the bears that roam the hills, that's why people have really big dogs here. I hope not to meet them and lose any interest in stealth camping.



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