Month: June 2022

The dream cove on Peleponnese

In the mid of March 2022 I found this extraordinary beautiful place. Although parking and camping is forbidden directly at the cove, it’s allowed to stay at the beach right next to it. Between the cove and the beach were I lived for a couple of days, there is a hill with an destroyed fortress on top of it. I hiked up to the fortress, fly around with the drone, meditated, chilled at the beach and helped a guy from Germany who got stucked with his car.

At the beach where I parked Rosinante, there were little areas. Most of them were just big enough for one or two cars. So everybody got his/ her own little space. It was the first time that I camped at a place where a couple of other people were camping since I started my journey in December 2021. The other guys were pretty nice and I talked mostly with a guy from Germany and a young French couple I called “the Frenchy Friends”. It was nice to meet some other travelers and I just recognized, that by meeting other travelers I get to know there home countries. I never thought about that before.

Especially the conversations with “the Frenchy Friends I enjoyed a whole lot. From the first moment on we had very interesting topics and shared a lot of our good and not so good lifetime experiences.

Visiting Olympia and it’s old stones

After a couple of days living on different spots during March 2022 in Greece, I thought that it is time to go and have a closer look at some old stone.

Back in school when I started “learning” latin, my interest for Greek mythology was born. Up to now, I just remember barely the first lesson of Latin, but I remember quite a lot of stories about the Greek gods etc. If you want to get a taste, I can recommend the book Mythos by Stephen Fry. It follows a quite interesting, fresh and different approach of telling Greek mythology. You’ll see.

In the morning I’ve been nearly alone in the whole area of ancient Olympia and so I took quite some time to explore it. The weather has been great, the flowers were flourishing and the wing beats of the insects were filling the air.

When I was walking around, investigating these old stones and trying to imagine how they’ve looked in the past, I had an idea. I googled for images that recreated the broken buildings etc. And by that I found the app Ancient Olympia. You can take a virtual tour through the whole place and what is more, you can use it’s augmented reality function to lay the virtual recreations on top of the broken originals. I had a lot of fun with it. And if you can’t visit Olympia right now, you may give it a try to have a brief look.

When I’m walking around these old places, I’m always excited and wondering what life was like at that time. And because I like a lot of the ideas that are described by Stoicism, I had a closer look at this statue of Marcus Aurelius. This guy was one of the biggest Stoics ever. At least he had written a lot about it. If you want to have a closer look at Stoicism, I recommend reading the summary of Stoicism on reddit. I really loved reading it and from my point of view it’s an fantastic summary. What is more the guys on reddit are discussing a lot what a Stoic approach on the challenges of their lifes would be.