Kalinka, balkan music style, it is as good as it gets!
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Entering the Balkans did it for me, I was happy, now I’m even happier, it is as easy as that. The warm people, the sun, the music, it is brilliant. I arrived a couple of days ago over the mountains from Italy into a small town plunged down in a valley. The back drop of the green hills makes life, the kids playing in the field, the people walking thier dog, running, biking set in an almost surreal scene.
Meeting the people here, the two other long distance bikers is as surreal as the setting itself. Climbing in the mountains north of Ljubljana I think we found some similarities, all drawn towards the steep part of the hills and with the smile on the face as the adrenalin pumped in the veins (?). The constant topic for the last few days has been bikes, routes, stories from down the road and food, not bad in any way and as I’m sure I will be a completely unbearable with my stories when I get home I might just enjoy this. 
As I just bought myself some more time in this part of the world I’m hitting the Russian language, this is something. I imagine being able not to just listen to the russian song but to understand them, sheeeeesy, and it will be easier to travel in central asia for sure! Just found a website with the 100 most common words in Russian.
On sunday it is time to move on, over the plains and the hills in the North East to Maribor and then down to Zagreb. I find that Couch Surfing in the Balkans is fantastic, really a way to meet good people and see life in the Balkans.
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