Digital Wanderer

We live as long as we fly

Valencia — 12, moving to Girona and housing problems

 2023-02-19

🚄🚄🚄 ready for takeoff

As I already wrote, the high-speed 🚄 Valencia-Barcelona looks cool. Kind of resembles a rocket lying on its side. Even covered in soot, as if it's jet-propelled. Actually, almost all long-distance routes in Spain are electrified (in fact, 2/3 of all routes are electrified). All high-speed trains in Spain start with the letter A - AVLO, AVE, AVANT. This comes from the abbreviation Alta Velocidad. Very convenient - it's immediately clear that the train is high-speed. High-speed means from 200 to 330 km/h. Like a real 🚀.

Side of a train with an electronic display showing carriage number "001", departure time "09:25" and the route "Barcelona-Sants — Castello-Plana". The scuffed and dirty surface of the carriage contains instructions for emergency door opening, an electrical hazard sign, and a person is visible in the open doorway.

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Dream - a trip to Munich and meeting the ChGK team

 2023-02-09

I dreamed that I went traveling around Europe in a minibus with my sister and dad. First we were in Norway, then we made it all the way to Munich in Germany.

There I went for a walk (for some reason in a suit jacket), and reached the outskirts, where there is already nature. The elements were raging right then, and I was blown into the floodwaters, where with some difficulty I grabbed onto the bank and scrambled out. Checked for a bus, but it turned out it was a 45-minute brisk walk away (5.1km), at least according to Google Maps. Figured there was no way I'd make it in time.

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Valencia — Days 10 and 11, an attempt to send a bike to Girona

 2023-02-02

Further travel plans

A package of Menakao Madagascar milk chocolate with vanilla, featuring a portrait of a Malagasy woman, with the lower part decorated with a geometric ornament in warm tones.A divinely delicious chocolate bar, entirely made in Madagascar

On Friday, November 18th, on Latvia's Independence Day, it was time to leave the hospitable home. Before that, I spent a few days frantically poking at the map of Spain, measuring elevation changes to figure out where to head next. My knees are no longer capable of handling a kilometer of elevation gain over thirty, and my belly pulls me down too. Besides, to find such a place, getting there shouldn't take too long or cost 💰💰💰. And you should be able to fly out of there. If not to Latvia, then at least to Lithuania. From the Lithuanian capital Vilnius to my hometown Daugavpils, it's not very convenient to get to, unfortunately. You have to take a 🚉 to the village of Turmantas on the border, and there ask someone to pick you up by car, or at worst, order a taxi. I think all my friends and acquaintances have already heard about this option a thousand times, but here you go, you'll hear it again and again. What can you do - in the end I bought a ticket to Vilnius from Alicante via Eindhoven, 🇳🇱. Friends live there, and I decided to drop by, since it worked out that way.

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