cycling 4 tamera

Shame over me – Being first picked up by Julianes van, she also brought me to a place at the other side of Bilbao, so that I did not have to cycle in this huge urban center. So I started in green hills, crossed Guernika and found the coast. what a beautiful route. I had to find out, that this saturday was a holiday and so went short on food, because on sunday everything was closed as well, but it was jsut in my mind, I soon realised that there was no reason to worry – we should anyways stop doing that. I always found a little shop open to get some bread or something… Guernika reminded me about the test of the new german war technologies in the 30s, but in the town itself I did not find a lot of memories about that. It was full of motor cyclists comeing for a concert – today was holiday. The coast is very nice and beautiful, lush hills, green forests, beautiful beaches and little coastal towns, a lot of people living here, but more the rich part of society.

These days i was spellbound by Eragon 2 – 22 cd audio book Juliane gave me. It is a strange way of distraction – it is only about the war against evil, honor and revenge – “old matrix”. The story of these fantasy epos always runs along the same lines, and this one is not trying anything new. And still I could not stopp listening. It put a wall around me: I saw the nice view, I cycled the hills, swam in the sea from time to time, but the important things where happening in the audio book. I was happy, when it was over and i could return to this world, not being distracted anymore, and continue my study of texts about peace. Why do these stories have such a great attraction? Well, at least it made me think, think about the war stuctures, and how it is more attractive to listen to fictive predictable adventures than to dive into the adventure of life itself.

Which I did then today – swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, enjoying some of the greatest waves I ever experienced. Whow, what power resides in the elements !! I have to learn surfing!

The border between Spain and France was quite horrible. Lots of traffic on only some roads, I did not find a bike path, maybe there is none. On the other side of the pyrenees u find a beautiful coastal road, going up and the down in serpentines, but here it was just all full of houses, industry and traffic. And after a huge huge holiday resort – beaches, dunes, camping places. A bit boring and repetitive, but great to swim!