by alpaca | Sep 19, 2025 | Allgemein
Cheese Buns and a Shit Show Despite getting up at 6 AM, we (and when I say ‘we’ I mean Göran and I) were a bit slow this morning to Jacques’ great annoyance. After washing ourselves in the aguas non-frios we got ready for the day ahead. We got some...
by alpaca | Sep 18, 2025 | Allgemein
Aguas Non-frios By now you should know our usual morning routine: getting up at 6 AM, breakfast, packing our belongings and hitting the road. This morning was the same only that the tent and our sleeping bags were very wet and we had to wait quite a while for the sun...
by alpaca | Sep 17, 2025 | Allgemein
All those sodding dogs! In the morning we made use of the fact that ATMs were available one more time (they are hard to come by in the tiny villages we usually pass through) and bought fresh produce such as vegetables and bread. Although we were eager to head out of...
by alpaca | Sep 16, 2025 | Allgemein
From countryside to city chaos Although our campsite lay situated quite pretty, it lacked one pretty important thing: access to clean water. Therefore, after we all got up at 6:30 AM and had finished breakfast, I cycled 2 km uphill back to the village to ask for some...
by alpaca | Sep 15, 2025 | Allgemein
Here We go again What I haven’t mentioned the previous days, is that I struggled a bit with homesickness. Cycling up into the mountains for more than a week was very draining. And when you manage to reach a pass, rolling down the other side of the mountain...
