Day 43: From Drobeta Turnu Severin to Zike – 40.0 km – 5 hours 30 minutes – 11,378 paddle strokes – Total kilometres covered: 1,571.3 km

31/08/2017. We are writing at the end of August. Pascal has now been underway for six whole weeks. The time is flying by. Now that he has also completed the middle phase of the Danube's course, it's on into the last third: the lower Danube. It is characterised above [...]

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Day 42: From Orsova to Drobeta Turnu Severin – 25.4 km – 4 hours 45 minutes – 6,866 paddle strokes – Total kilometres covered: 1,531.2 km

30/08/2017. It was 1964, Romania and the former Yugoslavia were panting for energy. The task was to transform poor farming countries into exemplary planned economy industrial nations. Nature conservation, the protection of creation? Of secondary importance. In 1972 the Iron Gate 1 Power Plant was finally completed. To do [...]

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Day 40: From Berzasca to Dubova – 49.5 km – 7 hours 35 minutes – 13,547 paddle strokes – Total kilometres covered: 1,489.5 km

28/08/2017. The Romanian Danube is the longest section of the Danube's course that can claim one Danube-bordering state for itself. It stretches over 1,075 kilometres, first forms the natural border between Serbia and Romania, and later, over a great distance, the Bulgarian-Romanian border, touches Moldova and the Ukraine, before [...]

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Kodo Sawaki: Zen is the Biggest Lie of All Times

A book that gave Pascal a new attitude to life, helping him go through it with more openness and enjoy the moment, live in the here and now, and not stress about what has been or what will be. https://www.amazon.de/Zen-gr%C3%B6sste-L%C3%BCge-aller-Zeiten/dp/3936018308/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503905503&sr=8-1&keywords=Zen+ist+die+gr%C3%B6%C3%9Fte+L%C3%BCge+aller+Zeiten

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Day 39: Rest day in Berzasca

27/08/2017. Today Pascal spontaneously decided to take a rest day. "This morning I was a little lacking in motivation", he told me. Who could blame him, after all, he had his last rest day in Vienna, around 25 days ago and 1,000 kilometres back. In addition, yesterday evening there [...]

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