24 May 2011

Two portions of wine a day is healthy right?

Kalimera !!

I've been working on Euphoria farm for three days now and glad to say I like it here. We've been planting melons and peppers, weeding vineyards and garden, preparing the guesthouse... It's not too hard though: there's always time to sit outside and sip wine or later on in the evening, zipporo!

Kefalonia is a beautiful island with high mountains where herds of sheep graze and cars drive on narrow moutain roads. I've already visited Argostoli which is the capital of the island but actually just a small touristy town. I'm hoping to have time soon to go down to the beach and swim in the sea.

I live in my own trailer which is really comfy and equally inhabited by dozens of tiny ants. It's nice and cool to sleep there, amid lemon trees.

I'm loving the food too and it's mostly vegetarian, thank god. At every meal we drink white wine (from the house) and have feta cheese. And olive oil of course!

My facebook account is locked even though I replied hundreds of security questions. Nevermind. I'm enjoying my time without addiction to the internet.

Bye for now, it's siesta.

17 May 2011

Full speed to the south !

Dear friends

Since the spring semester is over it's only appropriate to direct my feet to the summer pastures, to the south. My main destination is Kefalonia in Greece. I left home yesterday morning hitching all the way from Oulainen to Seinäjoki. It went as smoothly as one can hope although I was a little anxious about my chose route: it was dead quiet in some parts. I made it to Seinäjoki in about three hours but I gave up in the pouring rain and took a train to Tampere. After staying in the sunny Lempäälä for one night, I'm now in the beautiful capital of Finland feeling the aftermath of WC celebration...

Great to be on the road again ! It's the closest to freedom I can get these days. Next two days I'll spend riding trams and metro and being as urban as this country girl gets!