Hitchhiking to Antwerpen set a new record for how many cars I needed: Münster – Lichtendorf (near Dortmund), – Remscheid, – Aachen, – Genk, – Hasselt, – Antwerpen; six in total. In Belgium I was dropped at ramps instead of service stations, and not at very lively once, yet both times picked up within five […]
Trip to Rome
Travels in pictures – part II
Half a year after departing towards Rome, long since having returned back home, I got my first wee etching press. Starting from scratch, what better way to learn intaglio printmaking than to process the previous trip drawings? Their technical and stylistic variety was such that I’d have to try the entire spectrum of etching techniques.
Travels in pictures – part I
Popular demand (believe it or not!) made me do it: Over the course of the next few days I’m going to post the travel drawings and prints of the last few years. Today starts with my personal book of genesis, the ink drawings from 2016’s Paris – Rome tour. Next in the queue are the […]
Between Adventures & Routines
My normal life is like living on holidays. And everybody needs holidays from their normal lives. So, maybe sometimes I need holidays from my holidays? Or do I need normal holidays? Or a normal life? Or no holidays? No holidays from holidays or from life? Oh dear… Last bike trip gave me a lot of thought, […]
È fatto
For weeks have we been silent: No time to write in these hurried last days of the trip, no ideas what to write after having returned home. Yes, we are back: Nelson in Małopolska and I in Westfalen. This trip has been harder than the one we did from Münster to Kraków in 2015: Physically […]
Sono – ma no siamo – arrivato
N: 40km done so far, now I have some easy 30km, then 10–15km of shit and I’m in Arezzo. There I’ll have 100km of pure flatness so I’ll check how much time I have before sunset. Now I’m eating in a spagetteria, fabulous carbonara for 5€. How are you doing? L: Food is scarce, all […]
“Che cazzo guarda!?” – Cruising through Toscana
Last Monday was a very memorable day. What an absurdly long, mountainous, surprising, gruesome day, so exhausting that my quadriceps halved their length out of tension, my brakes boiled eggs out of heat, my water bottles expanded out of pleading for water, my sweat glands digi-evolved into fountains, and I’m going to stop with the […]
Ad break – Visit France! Visit Switzerland!
We’re awfully sorry for writing less and less; this affliction comes naturally with having just too much to cycle and to look at and too many people to talk to and drinks to down. You people keep asking us about precisely the spots we haven’t covered in detail, so here’s a quick recap of what we’ve […]
A region I disregard
Ok, let me just complain for once. Complaining is healthy. Studies says that your little toe hurts less when you smash it if shouting curses out loud, so complaining should have a similar effect. I did not enjoy Liguria. Let’s start with the nice side. A coastline of cliffs along that Mediterranean Sea we all […]
Ascent and Fuga
High atop Genova there is a grand statue of the virgin Mary, nigh as tall as the Christ of Świebodzin, looming over the faraway sea … nearly as high we had to climb to our Genovese couchsurfer, but, all of a sudden, without any effort: we are still suspicious whether it’s just been something we’ve […]