When I meet new people and we make friends, they often ask me about a
holiday I have been on that I consider the best one ever. I must say I
used to be puzzled and sort of not knowing what to say because in the
past I concentrated too much on my work at school. Plainly, I did not
see the need of a holiday. However, everything changed last summer.
I was invited to go on a biking tour in the south of Europe, namely the
Balkan countries. We set off in Warsaw where most of my friends came
from. It is a long way to Sofia and Athens but we were determined to
start our ride. There were ten of us with our latest models of top brand
bicycles designed for long distance riding in highly challenging
terrains. The sophisticated gadgetry we used included bicycle GPS
trackers, buttonless computers and super bright incandescent head
lights. We were well-prepared but were we?
The first few days were a nightmare. You see Polish roads leave a lot to
be desired--they are bumpy, lined with ruts and cracked here and there.
The effort it took to ride on is beyond description. This was especially
true of some of us (like myself) who had toiled away preparing homework
and cramming French vocabulary back in the school year. I was unfit to
say the least. By the time we reached the Polish - Czech border I had
visualised packing my stuff and catching an early train back home. But
then our leader nick named the Big Biker said we should rest one day.
It was a great idea. So we lay and ate and drank plenty of liquids. To
stay fit we took a short (just over an hour long) ride round the
charming little town of Cieszyn. The following day we felt much better
and set to go.
What I would have missed had I decided to stay behind is awesome. The
Black Sea with its stony and sandy beaches, the picturesque Trigrad
gorge and the classical beauty of ancient Greece as well as the
scorching sun against the cloudless heavenly-blue sky reflecting in the
sea around the Greek islands.
The way back home on the train was rather depressing but we promised
each other to go again the following summer and that would keep our
batteries charged for the long wintry months to come.
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