Jinji Sadan

since the last post i cycled in the nice roads of turkey.

tell you the truth my rout didn’t take me for the most beautiful places that this amazing country has to offer but i can write you, my friends, on the amazing people in turkey.

the Turkish are famous of there chai (tea) and every one in every time should say yes to tea.

another tea

it was really nice to cycle on the road and every some km people shout at me to join them for the tea, after couple of times i am sorry to say no for them because i cam to cycle around the world and not for drinking good tea around the world…

my new work : making bread

one time in this kind of break i asked a guy how many tea cups he is drinking in a day.

he thought  and thought  about it again and answer me:

“i don’t know how much cups but you should ask how much liters of tea we drink in a day.”

"believe me my friends lady gaga is better them madona..."edit

i was surprise of my fast learning of basic Turkish and i could answer good of the normal question that most of the people ask like:

whats is your name?where you from? where you going? why you are not married? you want tea?

Israel and turkey has ups and downs on their relationship as countries and now its a little hard time for us so i was sorry to tell the people (for safety reason) that i am from America or south Africa and thats was hard because i am not good in lies  and really hate it  but its better like that.

every evening i stopped usually in gas station and ask the people to camp and i was enjoying their company and collected friends on the road.

right now i am in the city of trabzon on the black sea that’s  no so black…

the sumela monastery is an interesting place that i visit her , a nice monastery that situated on a cliff, a good food for the eyes.

sumela monastery

trabzon is a nice city and big enough to set everything before going to Georgia.

my friend bayran in trabzon

just yesterday i got to my 45000km point and i was happy to see that i am still going on and focused on my journey, happy that it was near the black sea with amazing colors of the sun set really magic time.

45000km magic time!

Europe mad me soft a little , yeas i was cycling in the winter in the snowy alps but i want to get back to the hard places where you need to do every day your best that you got.

central Asia will be a place for that.

i need to feel the big adventure again europe was nice and hard but i like to feel my heart plus before going to sleep.

and for the amazing people in turkey i could say:

çok teşekkür ederim, ben geri bir gün sizin şaşırtıcı ülkeye gelecek

thank you very much, i will come back one day to your amazing country.

love you all

Roei jinji Sadan

trabzon

turkey

Asia

the world

photos from turkey enjoy

Crossing to France was really confusing for me, no check in the border and you are in a new country in a new language and new culture.

Everything is so different from Spain to France and I can’t believe that I got her and to start to understand the different way of life.

The truth is that I was sad to leave Spain I got many friends and good memories from there but I know that I will be back.

It weather now in Europe is really cold and the first days were something to talk about…

In the first night in France it was a snow storm and I wake up to see my tent in 20 cm of snow it took me 1 hour to pack everything and from the first minutes out from the tent I lost the sense in the fingers.

In this weather you don’t see people out in the streets or in the road, people look at me in a strange look from their car like saying:

“Who is this stupid guy that cycling outside in this freezing days?”

brrr...

Cycling in snow is always hard and dangers because of the ice on the roads.

In the city of Toulouse I was really happy to meet my friend Hugo (the French canal) that cycled with me in the magic mountains of Peru, we stayed with his amazing friends and talk about the crazy days in the past. When I am thinking about that I cycled with this guy more than one year ago and now I meet him in his country I think about the size of my journey sometimes it’s too big to understand it.

I also meet good people in the Jewish community in Toulouse and they were really warm and nice.

From Toulouse I had really crazy week to cross the Alps to Grenoble and I could see why people say that France is amazing place to cycle.

The small roads are really nice and in good conditions people are nice but don’t know English and the scenery is like cycling in paint…

The weather was ok (some times it wasn’t snowing) but the nights in the tent were really cold and I could not have good sleep.

The roads are full with nice little villages and each of them has a character of his own. I am cycling I think about that I will come her one day with my friends and cycle with them this roads because it’s pretty easy and in the season its really warm with the sun shining on your face (that’s what I heard…) every night I found I quit place to put the tent and start my day again in the morning.

In one of the climbs i was sorry to see (or to hear) that my rear wheel break but it was the time to die after crossing the mountains of south America and Africa so it was understanding after all this hard roads…

It wasn’t the first time that my wheel broke the first time was in Peru in a middle of nowhere and I took a 1000km ride to cross to Bolivia to buy a new one and got back to the same place the the rime broke, in Peru its took me time and money and her in Europe it only took me money because that I most of the small cities there is a normal bike store and rims that I can take for a short time until I will find a right one to cycle one it.

The last climb to the alps mountains was really nice ride but in the top of the pass a cloud came and told me:”Roei now the adventure is starting…” so the rest of the day I spend in the rain or snow on my face and I prefer to climb then to go down with the wind that make everything more cold.

Ice on the rocks and frozen lakes were in the view.

The climate really change when I had the descent from the mountains to the valley of Grenoble were I meet more friend, Ariel and Noa, that showing me around and we having good time and I need this rest to recovery mentally and physically.

To talk a little Hebrew with people and nice feelings after trying to make my way in French. We will meet again in Jerusalem when I will do my last kilometers in this journey it sound like a date….

Grenoble is nice city surrounded by mountains and good views.

Europe is easy cycling and I am happy to make it a little harder and to cycle in the winter and if I am her I want to cross the mountains also, I want to earn my pasta and my rest in my way.

In the next week I will cross the mountains to north Italy and I am excited of that.

Will dream and see what’s going to happen my friends.

Love you all

Roei “jinji” Sadan

Grenoble

French alps

Europe

The world