DISCLAIMER!!!: 1. This one is for strong nerves only! 2. The main reason for which this comes so late, is of course lack of time. But also, some stories are better told with a certain distance.

Hello again! Much earlier than expected, I’m back here again and I have a new format for you. As I got a little bored from writing last time and I was worried about boring you, I have decided to do a Comic about this trip. We’re currently walking 5 days of the “Cammino 100 torri” in Sardinia. More accurately, the “Cammino delle Miniere Santa Barbara” (Mine path). This is my first ever comic strip so it might be pretty bad, I’m just experimenting. Let me know if you like it. 😉

This is the last day of this almost one month long vacation and journey.  Lausanne wakes up in light rain this morning but the sky clears up as soon as we get out. After breakfast and leaving the Airbnb we still have almost 2 hours to revisit the most important spots of the city center (which I have seen a couple of times by now but Francesco hasn’t had the chance yet). Francesco takes the train back to Rome at 2 and I get into a train to Saarbrücken (with 3 changes) at 4. Swiss trains seem to be always on time to the minute but as my train stops…

After one last fancy breakfast and checking out, I walk through the streets of the old town once more to explore the last corners that I haven’t seen so far. I even step inside the cathedral and am surprised with a wonderful organ concert. The streets are full of vegetable and fruit stands at this time of the day and everything has the flair of a market. It is sunny and warm with a fresh breeze and people who are not working enjoy the morning in the many cafes or buying their food on the market. I also see many students coming out of school for lunch break or relaxing…

I stand up quite early and have breakfast at the fancy hotel buffet. Then I take the train to St. Saphorin a little further south-east along the lake, but not without buying myself a very nice gluten free bread in the old town before (Amavita NutriBio) and stealing some cheese and cucumber from breakfast. Today I’m walking the “Terrasses de Lavaux” panoramic path, which takes me through the UNESCO protected traditional vineyards of Lavaux all the way from St. Saphorin back to Lutry. The way goes slightly up and down more or less 50 m above the lake level right through the wine plantations. I try some grapes and they…

Time to say goodbye. But gradually. Today I say goodbye to Kosovo and to Balkans and to exoticism. My plane from Pristina leaves at 9 but there is still one more stop for me before I have to go back to normal life and work in Germany. And this stop is probably the highest contrast I could get to the Balkan countries: Switzerland. I arrive at Genève at 12 and take the train to Lausanne where I will meet Francesco and spend a couple of days. While walking the streets of Lausanne, I am so overwhelmed by the charm of the city and the beauty, cleanliness and order of everything,…

Having the choice between spending the day mainly in Pristina or doing another outdoor thing in Peja, I decide to do a different Via ferrata today. We start at 10:30 as an open group and our guide is Mentor whom I also know from the PoB trail and am happy to meet again. Apart from me, there are only two other Macedonian guys. This is the via ferrata Shpellë (which means caves) honors its name by passing by 5 or 6 caves on the way. Most of them are natural caves that have been humanly modified during the centuries and used for mainly military purposes. In the first world war,…