August are gust bun/August tastes good

Seara buna, dragi calatori ai lumii!

Am venit din vacanta, gata sa fac ultimii pasi catre finalizarea micii noastre campanii! Venim cu un pic de intarziere, tocmai pentru ca am fost departe de internet timp de doua saptamani!

Inca avem nevoie de donatiile voastre!

Victor e si el rupt de net in perioada asta, aud ca a castigat primul trofeu, plutind pe o ciudatenie construita in Franta, dar scrie tot timpul! Aici este cel mai recent articol de pe blogul lui! Articol lung, plin de fotografii si aventuri! Eu sunt cel putin cucerita si transpusa intr-un alt spatiu de fiecare data cand il citesc!

Butonul pentru donatii se afla in partea dreapta a acestei pagini, iar pentru a afla mai multe despre motivele pentru care il sustin pe Victor, cine este el de fapt si ce face, va invit sa cititi cele mai recente 3 articole de pe acest blog ori sa dati o tura pe pagina lui de Facebook!

Bon chance, Victor!

Si ne vedem in Londra! ;)

Good evening, dear wanderers of the world!

I have come back from my holidays, ready to take the last few steps in finalizing our little campaign! We're just a wee bit late with our activities, due to being away from the internetz for 2 weeks!

We still need your donations!

Victor is also quite far from the online these days, I hear he won the first trophy of his tour, rowing on a weird thing built in France, but he writes as often as he can! Here you have his latest article on the blog, which is a long article, full of photos and lovely tales! I am blown away with every article he writes and taken all the way to the places and moments he describes!

The Pay Pal donation button is still there, on the right side of this page and if you want to read more on the reasons why I support Victor in getting a tablet, who he is and what he does, please check the 3 most recent articles on my blog or just visit his Facebook page Tail Wind Around The World!

Bon chance, Victor!

And see you soon in London! ;)

Clara

Almost there!

Hello wanderers of everywhere

I have been quite busy lately but that doesn't prevent me from following Victor and staying in touch with him. Better still, I am delighted to read short surprise-messages from him to find out where he is and what kind of wind dries his t-shirt off.

Getting straight to the point, the last donation we've received almost two weeks ago was from a respectable man Victor met in Switzerland and who allowed him to spent his night in the hotel room he was renting on a pass of the many that Victor had ridden through. I was so excited and not as much for the sum he donated but because HE MET VICTOR WHILE HE WAS LIVING THE ADVENTURE OF HIS AND BECAME PART OF THAT ADVENTURE AND WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING THAT HE HAD ALREADY BEEN MENTIONED IN ONE OF VICTOR'S ARTICLES! He has just been following Tail Wind Around the World since, found out about the campaign and proceeded! How cool is that?! :)

Thanks to these extraordinary people we managed to raise almost 140 British Pounds. Upon having discussed the subject with Victor, looking through the list of affordable tablets, we decided for an Asus or A Lenovo tablet. Even though that's enough for the actual tablet, I would love to get a protective cover for it and to send it to France (where Victor is these days) with a post insurance. I've already got a couple of unused screen protectors that will fit the 7 inch tablet and by the way, if you have any suggestions/info/advice regarding the brand/source/price or anything that could help, please let us now!

I'd really love for Victor the have his tablet in August so he can write the first article on it, but we decided to campaign for a bit longer! If you wonder what I am talking about, please read the older posts on this blog,
or find out who Victor is by checking his Facebook page or read his blog.

If you want to DONATE, please click the DONATE button on the right side of this page!

If you've got questions like:

Who are you?
Why can't I access the links?
How could I donate a protective cover?

....and so on, please write us!


'till then, enjoy the ride! :)

Aproape acolo!

Seara buna, dragilor!


Am fost destul de ocupata saptamanile astea, dar asta nu inseamna ca nu tin pasul si nu pastrez legatura cu Victor! Ba chiar mai mult, ma bucur de scurte mesaje-surpriza de la el, din care aflu pe unde mai e si ce vanturi ii mai usuca tricoul!

Voi trece la subiect! Am primit ultima donatie acum o saptamana si ceva, de la un domn distins pe care Victor l-a intalnit in Elvetia si care i-a permis sa se foloseasca de camera lui de hotel pentru o noapte, intr-unul din pasurile pe care le-a strabatut luna trecuta! Am fost extrem de entuziasmata si cu toate ca suma a fost exorbitanta (mai ales raportandu-ne la suma-obiectiv), ce m-a impresionat cel mai mult a fost, de fapt, faptul ca a donat PENTRU CA L-A INTALNIT PE VICTOR IN DRUMUL SAU SI I-A CUNOSCUT AVENTURA FACAND PARTE DIN EA  SI NESTIIND POATE CA DEJA FUSESE MENTIONAT INTR-UNUL DIN ARTICOLELE SALE. L-a urmarit si inca il urmareste pe Facebook, a aflat despre campanie si a actionat! Cat de frumos?!?!

Datorita acestor cativa oameni extraordinari, am strans aproape 140 de lire. In urma discutiilor cu Victor, rascolind oferta de tablete cu pret accesibil, am decis sa alegem intre Lenovo si Asus. Deocamdata ar fi de ajuns, dar imi doresc foarte mult sa cumpar si o coperta protectoare si sa o trimit in Franta (acolo unde Victor va fi in perioada aceasta) cu asigurare. Am deja niste folii protectoare pentru ecran pe care nu le-am folosit niciodata si se vor potrivi ecranului de 7 inch al tabletei pe care o vom cumpara. APROPO, daca aveti orice fel de sugestii referitoare la tipul tabletei sau orice altceva ce ne-ar putea ajuta, scrieti-ne!

Imi doresc foarte mult ca in August Victor sa aiba deja tableta si sa scrie primul articol folosind-o, dar ne-am propus sa continuam campania inca o perioada! Daca nu stiti despre ce vorbesc aici, va rog sa cititi postarile mai vechi de pe acest blog sau, pentru a-l cunoaste mai usor pe Victor, vizitati-l pe Facebook aici sau cititi-i blogul aici.


Daca doriti sa DONATI, dati un click pe butonul DONATE care se afla in partea dreapta a acestei pagini.

Daca aveti intrebari precum:

Ce face Victor?
Cine sunteti voi?
De ce nu pot accesa linkurile?
Cum putem dona o coperta pentru tableta?
.......???

Nu ezitati sa ne scrieti!

MAI E UN PIC!

Perdevara, 2-wheel activism and why i support him

I decided to write my second post in English. I think Victor's followers are mostly billingual but also, makes it easier for me TODAY. I'm back in Romania for the short half-term break and tomorrow will send my laptop to the service so that doesn't give me a lot of time for rich posts.

I was very excited to see the first donations on the PayPal and realized that people living abroad (not in Romania I mean) have the possibility to donate a much bigger sum, so will probably wait one or two weeks more before my own donation. It won't come alone, so boyfriend and a couple of friends joining. I really hope this will happen soon!

Also, I have spoken to Victor and thought about contacting some nice small companies (bikes, tourism etc.) and see if they can help! I was actually first thinking about Bicicletele Pegas (click here on the name), and will send them a post today, so if anybody has any suggestions, we'll be more than thankful! :D

I was also thinking about why I love what he's doing and honestly support him so I will share this with you. Oh and there are soooo many reasons!!! It's got to do with love, the world, knowledge, people, health, activism, solidarity, exploring and generally, with what life should be for all of us.

Firstly, I think he's brave, and in his search for freedom, he's actually as dependent on the others as we all are. The beauty of it is that he's dependent on strangers, on people he meets on the road, on people who give him lunch today or host him for a whole week. And thinking this way, aren't we all just as strange as we are friends or colleagues?

Secondly, he chose to ride the bike. No hitch-hiking (or as little as possible), no driving, no  trains. Well, that's SPORT, that's energy, that's his OWN energy that moves him, from one place to the other, sharing and then gaining and then sharing again some of that. That's a strong body, that's so many difficulties to go through, that's incredibly cold and terribly hot, that's tiring, that's risky, that's lonely, that's independent! That's his own rhythm, that's his own way. Oh yes and I LOOOOVE THAT!

I KNOW HIM! And of course I support him because I know him. Never met him though, that's funny. We talked a lot about Poland, a few years back, about plans, about volunteering, about EVS, about hitch-hiking, about the connections you make on the road and about stuff. Everything online. I was in Bucharest, he was in Cluj.  I live in London now, he's on the road. We're both tripping in different way, but we haven't stopped travelling. And yes, we're not tourists, we're travelers. Ohhh YES!


Also, he's carrying that huge fucking flag that has written ROMANIA SAYS NO TO FRACKING on. And I don't even care what your opinion is, but he's spreading a MESSAGE he believes in and he's confronting people from the first second and he's fighting his fight and he doesn't give up. So that's WHY I support him.

Well, I also support him because he writes. And he's such an honest writer, a bit of a poet, a bit of a child. Raw and charming. It takes you there. It took ME there. I want him to write, to KEEP writing. I want him to be in touch, not all the time, but I love the online, I love the sharing, I love travelling and I want to know about all that. Or at least a bit of that. It makes me plan and it makes me keep on going. Further and FURTHER. To the next country, to the next CONTINENT and damn, to the next UNIVERSE, because all these people and all these places...They're not on this planet. Do you ever get this feeling? Sometimes you don't need a visa to get there. You need a VISA! You need a VISION VISA!! You need a SUPER HOT BOILING NEED FOR FREEDOM AND LOVE FOR ALL BEINGS AND PLACES AND A VISION FOR LIFE NOT BEING WHAT THEY SAY IN HIGHSCHOOL BUT WHAT THEY SAY IN NEIL GAIMAN'S BOOKS AND YOU WANT TO FIND ALL THAT AND LIVE IT LIVE IT AS YOU WANT WHEN YOU WANT WITH WHOM YOU WANT!!! And damn, I TOTALLY SUPPORT THAT!


Should I stop here?

For today, on this blog, yes. But you should START donate :D Donate button on the right of this blog page. The only DONATE button on this site.

Go VICTOR!

Support Victor and blogging on two wheels!

If there is anything that I would like to do my whole life, is travel. If someone told me today that I am no longer allowed to move from the city I live in, I would probably think that my days are soon to be over.

People give to charity, volunteer, help friends, sponsor Kickstarter project and so on...

I have been following Victor (click here and you'll see the Facebook page of his adventure), my friend, since the first months of his adventure. His Facebook posts, blogs (click to see his website) and all that so last time when I talked to him he told me he's got no phone, no laptop and he just goes online at the internet cafes he finds on his way. And in his lovely hosts' homes. Suddenly, thinking of how much I enjoy his writing, which is raw, honest and takes you right there on the road with him, I realized I wanted him to write more, anytime he feels like it, anywhere he feels he'd like to share a wonderful thing with us, so what could be easier to carry, to write and read on and also to be there, just in case he needs to contact someone, but a tablet!

I live in London and buying a tablet here is very cheap, you can get a regular, but good quality one with 120 British Pounds!!! We will get a quarter of it only by having my close friends here donate a few pounds. I am raising all donations on my PayPal account, which I have set up for donations. When the sum gets all raised, I will show you everything: print screens, photos, receipts and all that proof to assure you your donations went where you meant them to go. Also, will keep you updated during the process!


So...fellow travelers, dear friends, dear EVS volunteers, Erasmus students, cyclists and activists, I invite you to join and support Victor in his writing about cycling around the whole world! This is something definitely worth doing but, for the beginning, something AMAZING TO READ ABOUT! So let's give Victor his pen and paper of our century and follow him wherever he goes on his two-wheeled, faithful friend!


For your donations, here you go:

For any questions, please contact me here through the comment section or on Facebook (click).

Here we go, Victor! :)


P.S. IF YOU CAN' ACCESS THE PAYPAL LINK HERE PLEASE SEE THE PAYPAL ICON ON THE TOP RIGHT OF THIS BLOG

Donam pentru tableta lui PERDEVARA!

Seara buna!


Nu am avut timp weekendul trecut iar saptamana asta nu mi-am putut scoate din minte faptul ca am promis un link PayPal pentru donatii!

Ce donatii?! Ce vrea asta?

Ei bine, va spuneam de dragul de Victor, care de peste un an, umbla teleleu pe doua roti si ne mai si povesteste toate aventurile lui, sa, ma rog, pe cat poate. Mie imi place enorm de mult ce face, asa ca mi-a venit o idee, afland ca nu are telefon, nu are net decat la gazdele binevoitoare care il adapostesc peste noapte si la internet cafeuri. Ei bine, eu imi doresc ca el sa aiba o tableta. Una mica, practica, de pe care poate sa citeasca si...sa ne scrie!

Pentru cine nu stie care e treaba, poftiti aici: perdevara.info este site-ul lui, si il mai gasiti si pe Facebook, cu Tail Wind Around The World.


Aici link: 

Donatiile le strang pe contul meu de aici din Londra, este un cont simplu, la HSBC in Londra, asa ca am facut un link de Pay Pal, unde se va strange tot. Tintesc in aproximativ 150 de euro, care ar trebui sa ajunga pentru o tableta decenta si coperta. Ce ramane, sunt bani de drum! :) Totul e facut cu acordul lui Victor si, bineinteles, rezultatele vor aparea constant aici, pe pagina lui, pe Facebook si oriunde se poate! Poze, chitante si print-screenuri vor aparea la final, cu un mare multumesc si o dragoste nestavilita pentru voi toti! V

Haideti sa-i luam lui Victor o tableta! Calatori din toata lumea, uniti-va!

Linkul este mai jos, trebuie sa va faceti un cont PayPal (daca nu aveti si care este foarte folositor) sau sa va logati. Referinta este HelpPerdevaraWrite! Donati cat va tin buzunarele si sufletele! Avem de strans o suma mica, nu ar trebui sa fie greu!

CLICK CLICK CLICK!

Victor, raspandeste vestea, prieteni dragi, impartasiti cu prietenii vostri dragi, care pot impartasi cu prietenii lor dragi!

Vant din spate, Victor!