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Trumpets In My Head I

We all love music, right? Maybe, but nobody loves music as much as people of Mexico. It's everywhere, from the streets of big cities to the smallest mountain villages. Music pours from stereo sets, can be heard on a bus, on all plazas, in restaurants. Guitar, fiddle and trumpets, many trumpets. They will accompany me on my trip though Mexico. Places mapped by Wanderlog, a trip planner on iOS and Android CDMX & Cacti In this weird times when airport feels like a nuclear reactor I'm lucky enough to be able to pack my bike again and go to somewhere nice and warm. Mexico City welcomes with colonial architecture, streets as clean as in Switzerland (really!) and a vibe that's bit exotic and bit American. Cacti in front of the cathedral - I'll see many more of them on this trip. Palacio de Bellas Artes is as picturesque as it gets from the outside, but inside is even more interesting Inside Palacio looks like a set of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Love it! Face of L...

Road To Cappadocia

This one was on my list for a while, and now that destinations are rather restricted I decided to take advantage of the fact that travel to Turkey is relatively easy to arrange. Obviously flying directly to Cappadocia would be too boring. Getting there on a bike from Antalya sounds like a much more interesting option especially because the road goes though relatively unknown Turkish "lake district". Map from Wanderlog, a trip planner app on iOS and Android Antalya to Konya Antalya surprises me with cycling paths. It's not gonna take long before they're over but it's a nice experience anyway How many places are there where you're randomly passing something like that? There was even a concert planned that evening. Aspendos amphitheater, first longer stop of the day. I immediately learned that my tires don't like this terrain. Little bit too many thorns and two flat tires at the same time 😠 That's gonna be the spot for my first night. I was ...