Finally the departure day has arrived, and after taking my goodbye from my friends and family the long journey starts with a day of riding with friends.

A short post about taking some shots before the trip, with Mihai Barbu.

The first visa for the journey and a short plan for getting all the other visas.

The experience of talking for the first time in front of an radio microphone at two Romanian Radio stations.

The first ski tour of a rather short skiing season for me, searching for the powder in the Baiului mountains.

First of all maybe I should start a bit by explaining what is the Polartec Challenge. Each year the guys from Polartec decide to support a number of daring projects around the world, with the aim of encouraging exploration challenges around all the corners of the world. When I first found out about it, and…

Trying out once again the plastic boots on the Valea Alba in the Bucegi mountains.

How you can get from a straight wheel to a bent wheel in the traffic from Bucharest, and how you can temporarily fix the issue in the most Romanian bike shop in Bucharest.

A couple of thoughts about how it feels like to return to Romania after more than one year.

After two days and a half on the road, and after meeting my parents in Slatina we manage to break away for one day for one short tour in the Cozia mountains. If we come to think of it, it has been at least 6 months since we’ve been to real mountains, and our past…