Day 119 Climbing in caves

This night I was climbing in some caves by Lakatnik (the cave was called Temnata). Was pretty cool but not quite what I had expected… I kind of thought it would be a nice stroll in a cool cave… naah… it turned out being bouldering climbing  up to 10 meters without any safety equipment… I should probably add that the walls where slippery and my shoes really bad so I basically had to climb with only my hands…

Injuries? Well I had a few bumps on the head, ripped a few holes in my t-shirt, have bruises all over and so forth. One guy hurt one of his legs a bit and the guy who took us had some problems with a broken rib… but no serious injuries… ehm….

A part of the free-climbing… you can’t really see it but it was actually pretty high 🙂

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Or sliding through some quite narrow passages like this one… at one point I was stuck without being able to breathe for half a minute before I managed to push myself through the opening…

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Down there you see some of the water… we where jumping over openings like this one… and it was quite slippery… the longest jumps where at least a bit over a meter long… and quite small things to land on and jump from…

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Here we are down by an underground river trying to jump between rocks to continue…

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Some parts where quite muddy….

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Outside the cave… leaning on a fence… ehm… and some of the bars where already gone…

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Eh, this bridge was more scary when we went back in the day and you could actually see how bad the state was… when we went there it was pitch dark so I guess it was a bit lucky we didn’t fall into the open holes… 🙂

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The guys I was there with, my host to the right, our guide the the left.

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Day 116 to 118 in Sofia

Me my hosts and some of their friends in Sofia

We went to this radio concert with the group Naked.

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Going to a concert that the radio station arranged. It was Jazz music by this Serbian band… pretty cool

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Day 112 to 115 in Bucharest

After Oradea (and with a small stop in Cluj and a loooong train-ride of 11 hours… should have hitchhiked… would have been faster) I finally arrived in Bucharest. There I met up with Anca and went to some club for some partying, was fun!

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A big crowd… lots of dancing.

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Day 105 to 111 In Oradea

The first stop after Sweden was Slovakia (Bratislava). The weather was cold and chilly but I had set my mind to get to Oradea in the same day (two countries away in Bulgaria). It took me from 2 pm to 1 am to get there (11 hours of hitchhiking) and I did meet up with some cool dudes (like the Checks who where in a bus-trip and really couldn’t understand the word “No” to drinking… in the end they did give up though :D)

With the Slovaks in the bus

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They actually lit the whole bar-disk on fire… but i only caught a little bit with the camera… pretty cool party place though!

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why use one phone when you have two?

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Fireworks for the 25 year-old!

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The cake… (baked by her mother, impressive!)

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A concert in Oradea… the group was called Republic and was connected to the Hungarian party… in Romania… a bit confusing at first when everyone starting singing the Hungarian national anthem… and they where all Romanians…IMG_1322

With Andrea in the Republic concert.

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There were a lot of people 😀

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Day 92 to 104 Visiting Sweden again

Another of those stopovers in Sweden. Had time to party with my student orchestra, celebrate my birthday, attend some CS-meetings. Meet up with friends etc.

The first thing I did when I came home was to attend a party with the Orchestra Kårsdraget… here some of the girls are performing a nice song 🙂

Some more of the Orchestra party IMG_1286 My best friend and Anna at my birthday party in Stockholm.IMG_1292

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CS event in Stockholm

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Dilman preparing to go to a party… in Silver cloak!

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Day 87 to 89 Oradea

After the mountains I was supposed to make a quick stop in Oradea on my way north towards Krakow… but it turned out that my host there was so good at persuasion that I stayed one day extra… not quite sure how it happened 🙂 Had a great time hanging out with my host and a surfer she had from the US staying at the same time.

One of those rare times where EVERYONE actually smiles at the same time on the photo… must have been because we had such a great time!

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Me and my host

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Completely posing 🙂

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Watching a movie with the girls… and yea… I know I look a bit smug on that photo 😛

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This is what happens when you play Pool with a girl that find the chalk-piece…

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Helping out to let the girls to some sit-ups… 😉

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Andrea is actually lifting me here… (Ok, she does have a black belt in Karate but still… I am quite heavy :D)

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Letting also Andrea do some sit-ups 😛 (I am suuuuch a nice guy!)

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No hands 😛

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