You can believe you’re a person who is relaxed, able to be spontaneous and flexible – those are admirable character traits right? But then something happens that changes the way you thought a situation

I'm skipping ahead in my story to tell you that I have arrived in Venice on the 31st of December 2019 and I am lucky enough to enter 2020 in this glorious city, unique upon the planet. Last night I slept

There was one more thing that happened on my way to Rachiv. It was just a long straight road, 10 miles along the valley bottom towards the town where I was going to take a weeks rest. Ten miles more and

The sky began to glow pink as I packed away, so happy to be here experiencing this, the beauty of the day beginning, the tinges of light turning the mountain yellow brown with colour. I walked towards

I’ve realised something about myself – it’s always been there, in the times when I’m emotional or drunk, but in the long days of walking when I’m tired and hungry I can see that it comes very much to the

I’ve been walking for six weeks and I’ve covered almost 400 miles so I thought it was time to do a summary post of the shape of my journey across Ukraine, what it’s been like for me here and how I’m trying

I met a soldier on the road; I looked up and there he was, a tall man in dusty camouflage clothing and a peaked cap standing in the centre of the stony road staring at me quizzically. We talked a little,

This is how you walk 9000 km across Europe! I thought I'd make a post to show the map that's in my profile picture. It's the very rough route plan which has already changed slightly as I make my actual

It all feels hazy now, a few days down the line. So much of what I’ve done this week has been in mild dehydration under hot sun. Exhaustion plays with your memory, makes the brain blank out. I haven’t

I am in a coffee shop in Kozyatyn town and it is tiny. One counter, one round table, one set of chairs at a window seat. Proudly established in 2017, proclaims the window decal. I come in because it’s

It’s apple season in Ukraine. Apple and walnut and mushroom season. Trees hang branches over every garden fence, waiting for a hand to catch their mottled droplets. I pluck as I go, the ones that would

After leaving Marius I tried hitching for a bit but it was getting dark and I was tired, I walked a short way into the fields, put up my tent and slept. Next day found me worried, this was a pretty poor

The thing I always forget about hitching is how it feels to wait. I can tell you all about the wild rides, the interesting people, bad coffee in expensive petrol stations, the thousands of miles travelled

Hello Steemians, I'm Ursula and I'm walking across Europe. That's my profile in a nutshell. Yes, I'm really walking. A lot of people I meet along the road hear the word walking and think I mean hitchiking,