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Lietuvoje SUP sezonas paprastai baigiasi kartu su vasara ir stalčiuose paslėptais bikiniais… vieną kitą “prakutusį SUP mėgėją” dar galima rasti Baltijos bangose. Tačiau ir tie “ruoniai” paspaudus šaltukui susipakuoja irklentes ir traukia žiemoti į šiltus kraštus, ar bent jau išsiruošia ilgesnėms atostogoms pagaudyti ne tokių ledinių bangų. Tai, kodėl Islandija? Kodėl ledynai, o ne Kanarų salos? Visada norėjau nukeliauti į Islandiją ir pamatyti ledynus, todėl užtikus Wizzair neįtikėtino pigumo bilietus, tiesiog negalėjau jų nenusipirkti. Na, o nuo tada, kai namuose apsigyveno SUP’as, nei viena kelionė paprastai neapseina be pasiplaukiojimo Irklentėmis po vietinius vandenis. Mintis pamatyti ledynus iš arti neapleido ir šį kartą. Susiradau vietinę kompaniją “Arctic surfers”, kurie vieninteliai Islandijoje užsiima banglenčių ir SUP turais. Reikia pažymėti, kad Islandijoje SUP/Surf nuoma niekas neužsiima, nes vandenyno srovės gan pavojingos, greit besikeičiantis vėjas ir nepasto
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Ruins, ruins and more ruins

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It seems, that I came to Amalfi coast from a wrong side... Today I took the road towards Salerno, through Analfi and small towns Manori and Maiori. The road and the views opening after each turn were beautiful.. and I had a realy nice 1h+ drive.
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Amalfi coast

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Yesterday I still spent a half day lazy.. and in afternoon headed towards the Amalfi Coast. Originaly I planned to have a stop somewhere around Rome, but got into those Termal waters and didn't want to get out. So the journey took me nearly 6h...after 4h in the car, I was already thinking to drop the Amalfi Coast idea, but the shot of espresso made it's job and the next 2h gone quite fast (like 150km/h fast.. yes yes.. I was carefull with safety cameras). I was planning to reach the place by the sunset, but at Neapoli area there were some trafic jams, so missed the target by half an hour.. Reached the Positano already in dark.  Why everyone says that driving in Italy is hard? All my trip I was looking for those "crazy italian drivers"... seen none. Of course...in the moddle of Tuscany you will barely meet a car every half an hour... But in Florence, highways...nothing unusuall. It made me think that maybe we, lithuanians, are driving the same "crazy"? so tha
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In Hot Springs: Bagni Vignoni

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Why life cannot be stable? If yesterday was below expectations, so today it was exceeding them! Can't it be just "Met"?  Montepulciano Anyway.. today I headed back to middle of the Tuscany, with anticipation what the Montepulciano medieval and Renaissance hill top town will reviel. Not sure why, but I was looking forward to visit it and was amazed.. Tuscany is definitely at its best in its small historic hill towns..  F ields around this town produce "a violet-scented, orange-speckled ruby" wine called  Vino Nobile di Montepulciano . I read somewhere that Vino Nobile is known as Tuscany’s number-two red because it’s slightly less beefy than Montalcino’s Brunello. By the way - there is also a Montepulciano grape and  It should not be confused with the similarly named   wine   Vino Nobile di Montepulciano , which is made from predominantly  Sangiovese  (typical no1 Tuscany grape) and is named for  the village it is produced in  (..l ike many Italian towns it is t
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In Hot Springs: Grotta Giusti

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Today I had a real "vacation" - meaning spending a Day at a pool, sun-tanning and reading a book. As Tuscany is famous with it's Termal waters and natural hot Springs, I search for a place I could enjoy this. The closes and most attractive was a Grotta Giuspi SPA  .. definitely the most unique Spa experience I had! You have a natural underground sauna in a Grotta (Cave). It has 3 areas - Limbo first (warm), then you proceed to purgatory (warmer) and end up in Hell (hot) to relax, meditate and sweat out all the toxins in your body. I immediately fell asleep... and seems not the only one to do that, as woke up by someone snoring at the other end of the cave room :)) P.s picture is not mine, as it's quite hard to get anything taken...and you are not allowed phones..as they would get quite wet after an hour there.. Having in mind that I got a great Last Minute Deal - it was a good experience and a nice place to stay (even I feel 30 years to young being gere..).. But I wou
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Defying the gravity laws

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Lucca and Pisa where my today's target. Eleonora and Marcus were very nice giving me a tips for getting to and spending a time in Lucca. Lucca As the Lucca has been chosen as official START of the 2013 Road Cycling Worldchampionship, I have also rented a bike at one of the "hundreds" bike rental shops and drove through the impressive Lucca city walls to explore..  Lucca town is completely surrounded by XVI Century walls . The walls, 4.3 km long, are allowed only to walkers and bikers, and it looked as a perfect start point.  Then I spent couple of hours driving through narrow streets, just enjoying the points of interest and watching people walking around. From all I saw, I liked the  Guinigi Tower  most - nice feature that it has  a trees on the roof and is the one of the few remaining towers in Lucca. Nice view from the top: Pisa I should say the Pisa leaning tower has realy impressed me... I even sat at corner cafe drinking Aperol Spritz (the popular Italian aperitive
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Forestaria

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Saturday I dropped Brook at the Arezzo and headed towards Lucca. Montecatini Terme On the way I stopped at Montecatini Terme, as it had "something nice" on the top of the mountain. The town was built around it's mineral water springs and it appears to be largest and most know Thermal town. I got onto the tripadvisor and found that on top is a Montecatini Alto - and the best and most enjoyable way to get there is to take a Funicular. The view from above is amazing...as I could already expect. It's a standard for this region. Walked around, had some light lunch with porcini mushrooms and headed back.  By the way - today the  2013 Road Cycling World championship started,  that will be all run in Tuscany from September 21st through September 29th, 2013. The race will cross the most charming Tuscan roads, will climb the world famous hills and will arrival in Florence.. The race is said to be as famous as Tour de France. Just this one is "Tour de Tuscany". All w
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