2017
with olympus mju 2
This was a one-month hitchhiking trip through the Balkans in 2017. Some of these photographs were also published in my book "solitude". I remember that this was one of the last hitchhiking trips over a long distance that I have made in the last few years. Nevertheless, I am still impressed by the people and places I have met during this trip. Over time the people I have become grown up like the young boy I once met in Bosnia in the mountains when I was on my way south to Mostar. We are still connected through social media and sometimes I am thinking about his family that hosted me in their home in the middle of nowhere in Bosnia. I hope that we will meet once again in life!
When I arrived in North Macedonia, I meet people that took me into the Albanian and North Macedonian mountains where there was a kind of a religious gathering of families at a kind of church up in the mountains. They cooked a big "gulasch" for hundreds of people after a ceremony at midnight. Thanks to the people, that joined me on this experience. It was perfect and strange at the same time. I won't forget these unusual days a few years ago.
