Tag: cyprus

Reunion with friends and the start of something new (March 2023)

I kept in contact with my friends Isa and Arne (who I had met in Turkey on New Year’s Eve and later on Cyprus). They told me that they had found a nice crag for rock climbing and so we met at that spot.

I was interested in rock climbing my whole life. Some years ago I did a top rope course in Hamburg and later I went bouldering for just two times. Although I loved climbing, I never got fully into it. I was just too much in love with Trial and downhill biking at that time. And I did not like the idea of doing a sport in which I’m very dependent on someone else.

With Isa and Arne I did my first climbing outside in a proper rock and my first routes in leading. I absolutely loved it and after our climbing, I started thinking if I should get my own climbing equipment.

We spent some beautiful days together and when we went shopping, a super nice fruit dealer gifted us kilos of banana. That evening we made liters of the most concentrated banana shake possible and drank it until we felt banana all the way.

It felt very good to me to spend some time with friends and in combination with pretty much accepting what was going on in my mind (see the last post), I felt way more balanced.

And Isa and Arne connected me with a climber they had met before. A pretty special climber. But at that point I did not know how special the connection to her would become.

Feeling bored and lonely but hey: two egg yolks in one egg and Zen (February 2023)

Although I was living at so many wonderful places and met a lot of people I felt very bored and lonely these days.

I felt disconnected and bored. Nothing was enough and everything felt “not really right”. The typical human thing, I’d say.

I met a lot of different people, connected with some Rainbow people, chatted with friends, went to a carnival in Limassol, a techno club Nicosia, and in just a few weeks one of my best friends from Germany would come to visit me on Cyprus but still I felt not “good”.

I continued my meditation routine and my online meetings with my online Zen Sangha and despite all the things I learned and had realized I still felt “crooked” and not “right”.

But at some point I could somehow accept whatever was going on with me and although there was something weird in the “background of my mind”, I enjoyed a lot of things. Big and small like these two egg yolks jumping out of an egg.

Instant love for Akamas on Cyprus (February 2023)

In Turkey I had been happy once I had found this awesome nature beach near Datca. After a pretty crowded coast in Turkey it had been the first real nature place.

On Cyprus I felt something similar when I found Akamas (see on Google Maps). This area is just awesome and wonderful and still my favorite on Cyprus.

Rosinante and I had some fun driving the tracks in Akamas which tend to be pretty steep, rocky and sometimes adventurous. The locals call one part of them “devil’s steps”. And it’s one of the rare places where I did not find any pure street Cars of the locals.

I felt very good to be back in nature, enjoyed the hiking, swimming, nature and the straight forward warning signs: “DO NOT TOUCH ANY MILITARY DEBRIS. IT MAY EXPLODE AND KILL YOU”.