BEYOND THE BORDERS: HMT: Safehouse #2

With the blessings of grumpy grandfather of Romanian hardcore we hit the road to Marseille

Road takes us through beautiful mountain villages to the seaside where we gonna land on the beach

Marseille and its' crazy traffic! Scarry! Bikes got bumped by another car. now i gotta straighten my wheel

a la playa!!! this is where the party at!

we arrive early - no people - only organizers start to build the place

day comes to the end and people slowly start to gather

blessed by the sun the first band takes the stage

less light = more people

sea sick six hit the stage with their atmospheric surf music

party is bouncing

by the time they have finished it's almost dark ...

aaand BTB takes the shift on stage


i was a wild gig. marseillian people are totally crazy!!!

directly next day we hit the road again to pass the Alps in direction of Cramona, Italy

Road is long and day is short. The night passed on 1800 altitude .. bit chilly but the views, man!

the night sky is vandalised

fresh morning

placed our shit in the car we rushed to Cremona. On a second day of CSA Kavarna fest.. It's the haaardcore day! There we meet our hommie from BCN...

Was a hard night. BTB was put last. On the schedule marked as TEKNO. I crawled on stage about 2am. Hall is empty...yeeeei

After an intro song suddenly place got crowded with jumping around people tired from same ol' hardcore growl...

next day..

out of space...

Kavarna in the morning

the third day of festival.. the hip hop day

my friend is unsatisfied with his life. He missed BTB last night... :DD

We stayed a bit in Cremona, but road was calling again. We payed a SPEED fee and launched us to Florence down the highway. In Florence Misha is left to do his work and me with Gita are going on Giro di Termas - it''s our answer to currently running Giro di Italia. There are several places in Tuscany where hot water flows from the ground. We marked our route, prepared our bikes and into the wild!!!

Day was long and hard. Mostly because of burning sun, secondly because of uneven land in this region and third we us got exhausted after 5h of cycling...but we hound the place in the evening down the Farma river valley. Close to Pari village.

It's a remains of Roman thermal bath place, fortified with a huge wall.

Place is awesome. Highlights - extra hot water, extra cold river for contrasts. Nice place to camp. And also possible to make new friends. But many people and camping place close by.

And one more minus.. It's really down.. and to get out you need to climb 4 km up 15 to 20 percent ascent!

Second day we're heading to Saturnia - the pearl of Italian thermal springs

Missed the early morning again and now we are punished with a burning sun.

Day is passing slow and hard. Big road no place to hide from sun. 16km hard climb squeezes last juices...

we reached Arcidosso by late afternoon, nice pause in a shade. No power left but 30 more km to go..

all empty we found the place .. it's incredible!

We found a grill in a parking lot. Made dinner and of to springs...

water was warm, but not hot. About 37C. These pools have nice massage option in numerous waterfalls! Few hour session restored us well!

next day - same place

power breakfast - and last leg of our tour! Today we're going to Bagnos San Fellipo. Tried to start early to get less sun, but it was already hot 9am.

Day time siesta and stretching sore muscles

some black tea

again it late afternoon we arrived to the place. It was not hard to find. It smelled like eggs and all area was warm from hot spring water in abundance here.