← Travel Journal

Image Text Sound

Soundtrack...current day, preparation invitation today

29. Jun 2026 · Шкорпиловци, Bulgarien · 7 min read

Soundtrack...current day, preparation invitation today
Spoken Note
So my dears, it's just about six here and before I go swimming for the third time, I thought I'd give you a quick update!

Because last evening I had another funny battle with a horde of ants!!!
I have no idea whether they tried to board Frankie in Croatia the same way!?

Fact is, via the power cable! That was crazy!
So it was so crazy that even the chemical bomb didn't "work"! Cable in water also didn't "work" and as a result, because I'd had enough, I pulled the plug for the power here last night!
To fight the same battle this morning after I plugged it back in again! Right now there's peace at the moment....
What did I do today?
After my morning exercise I thought, because of pain, you know, muscle soreness from yesterday's tour, oh come on, just do it with flippers, you'll be relaxed, you won't have to do so much! Completely backfired! Because it was so beautiful that I had to swim the two and a half kilometers back again. And it was cold offshore wind, no waves and yeah, then I sat at the computer at 9 and apart from two applications, I also worked on my website.
I still haven't solved the problem with the health insurance and at the same time got the info that I'm being sponsored for this week, which I think is totally great! Don't know if the person wants to be named!? That's why I'm just not doing it now!
If it works out, it'll come later! I can edit the texts after all!!!
Exactly, so I'm staying a week! Have actually also upgraded Frankie a bit more in terms of the sun, which does hit her now and then, and I've been held up again and again by really lovely people around me!
So apart from the fact that "Markus" is called Jörg and "Claudia" Carmen, they left today! So, farewell round!
At the same time, two other Germans who are standing diagonally from me here, did a yoga session here this morning! I thought that was very funny!
Here in the back in my corner. They asked me beforehand!
I thought I could just carry on as I always do...
No! He came at some point asking if I could turn off the music, since they're now about to rest here for like fifteen minutes somehow with "ding-dong-ding", "ching-chang-chong" and "ding-e-long"
Of course I do and of course I had to adjust my form of daily routine a bit! Anyway, my wheel repair, which I also completed yesterday, so the front wheel of my mountain bike tore right at the transition from valve to tube, didn't work! Even though I made the greatest effort... with heat and everything beforehand. Then I got handed a tube here from the operator, tried it out. That was broken too! But he wanted five euros for it! So I brought it back! He says, yeah if it's broken, then you can keep it and repair it! So I repaired it! I left it lying outside patiently as I am until everything really worked with the vulcanization in the temperatures here, I thought! So I put it in... just went out, it's flat! LAUGH
Exactly, so I have a really really lucky touch with repairs right now!
Should probably just stop! It's way too hot anyway! We're having a heat wave now! I burned my feet when I wanted to go down to the beach earlier just briefly, like as a break!
So I'll cream the soles of my feet this evening when I go to bed so they'll be fit again tomorrow! And anything going toward the beach after 10 o'clock, only with flip-flops, not that I didn't know that! LEARNING
On the other hand, like I said, back here in the shade, in the little woods, you'll get the pictures in a moment, it's not that hot! Unless the sun blazes on Frankie! And I'll check now live... 35 degrees in Frankie and for the conditions we had before in Maslarevo and Veliko, it's relaxed!
So almost ten degrees less and there's a little breeze here!
What else is there to report?
I showered today!
I last shaved on Thursday! Today is Monday!
You can imagine... I've now taken off the dreadlocks and actually also showered. Independent of the sea... so just a round of clean, with a bit of soap... doesn't smell so strong anymore either... LAUGH...
What else happened?
I got half a kilo of cherries from my new neighbors. They're here with their son who speaks a bit of English. All three totally nice too!
And Denni is called Ennis and is a firefighter! And after I was so beat last evening and also didn't want to sit with them anymore, a delegation of four men and one woman just came by to invite me!
And the woman speaks German. Totally crazy!
She just returned from Germany, did her doctorate in Bulgaria, is a doctor and somehow completed two special training areas in Germany and lives in Varna! And she's the daughter of the oldest firefighter! Yeah, they're all firefighters and really fun!
And I hope Dennis will make some of his photos available to me so I can share them with you!
They are, this much can be announced already, all GDR devices! And the Trabant he showed me, so I looked at the whole history of the build yesterday, I think it's technically better than the ones that came out of the factory in Zwickau back then!
In any case it looks so incredibly beautiful. Model won't be revealed!
Exactly and because they're all firefighters, I contacted Lu and asked him to send over some of his world championship photos, also choose some from his German championships and stuff, because the guys really celebrate that! I'm glad to be able to make them happy!
And now I'm "forcing" Lu indirectly to let his story go through his head in those moments and I hope and wish for him that he has lots and lots of beautiful memories associated with it! Thanks Lu for searching them out!
Exactly, I built on the website. Tried to bring it up to date and beyond that upload posts, pictures and other things. That didn't work! So in parts simply because there's still some mess in the back end. André knows about it!
I'm happy if he finds the time to take care of it.
And what else did I do?
I got two pitch decks with the request to review and evaluate whether I have the possibility to acquire investors or angels or classic investment companies for the two products. That would mean that maybe I just won't need a permanent job in the next six months or year.
Cost me a bit of time, a bit of brainpower and a bit of Kilian and a bit of research! I finished it and already transmitted it in the hope that it will cause the addressee to deal with it again and maybe engage in an exchange with me.
What am I doing now? I'm now going to shoot the pictures of Frankie for you, how it looks and stands here now, and then go down to the beach and drop into the sea! Because just a bit more sea is more! To cool off and then start the evening.
Still thinking about what I can bring this funny crew, which, as I believe, if I got it right, consists of four families with six kids, for dinner tonight.
I'm actually bombed out and on the other hand maybe somehow from nuts and honey and sesame and a bit of rosemary something to snack on... doesn't sound so bad at first!
I'll make something out of it...
I wish all of you, who are probably still working, don't know again what time it is for you... I always get confused with time... so for you it's 4:30 PM, so those who are still working, I wish you a fantastic start into the evening, no idea how warm it is for you now, it was supposed to get colder today somehow, I heard yesterday, and for those who already have time off, enjoy your time off!
I wish you all a peaceful and cheerful evening! Big, fat grin on your face, so one more smile and magical moments!
Big fat hug goes out to ALL of you... till then

Main image: the MOND`N

current "equipment" of Frankie: awning, carpet, hammock,...

Share: E-Mail · Follow: Instagram Telegram