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A travel lecture entitled “Solidarity Walk 4km / h” at Chillton bar, brings a story about a trip over 3000 miles long.
At the end of 2016, Goran Blazevic set off on a journey during which he walked from Petra in Jordan to his native Umag, carrying a message of peace and solidarity. He described his experiences from his five-month walk into a book titled “Silk.”
The travel lecture will be followed with photographs and video footage from Goran’s journey.
I was born in Koper (Slovenia) in 1983. Since then I’ve been living in Croatia in a small village in northern Istria whose geographic location caused my first language to be Italian. In this whole mess, thanks to favourable stars alignment at the moment of my birth, my lifestyle enables me a lot of free time. I work six months a year, spending the rest of the time doing what I like, mostly travelling.
I’ve travelled in traditional ways, by buses and trains, tried hitchhiking and travelling by car. But the speed and different demands of such travel didn’t meet my expectations. Not until I realized I have to slow down my travels and thus slow down myself as well. I took my early walking steps a long time ago, hiking in the mountains of Velebit and Ćićarija. In 2010 I walked the famous pilgrimage Camino de Santiago and met first travellers-walkers. Camino was my first walking experience that lit the fire of love towards slow motion travel. However, despite such a wonderful experience I wanted to dive deeper into walkers’ uncertainty and its rhythm, and I couldn’t feel it on the well blazed paths of the Camino.
Therefore in 2011 I first cycled from Umag to Dubrovnik, and in the fall of the same year I followed a hiking trail through Istria in order to explore the region. I walked for nine days without a tent, each day arriving to a new village and asking for any kind of shelter to spend the night. In those nine days of loneliness and wandering, I met a lot of people who provided me with accommodation, food or any kind of help in this endeavour. I learned more about myself and the places I was walking through than in any previous travel. Since then my steps keep following ancient historical routes, connecting two dots on the map, visiting significant cultural or natural areas. Walking enables me to learn more about myself and the world around me.
I’ve travelled in traditional ways, by buses and trains, tried hitchhiking and travelling by car. But the speed and different demands of such travel didn’t meet my expectations. Not until I realized I have to slow down my travels and thus slow down myself as well. I took my early walking steps a long time ago, hiking in the mountains of Velebit and Ćićarija. In 2010 I walked the famous pilgrimage Camino de Santiago and met first travellers-walkers. Camino was my first walking experience that lit the fire of love towards slow motion travel. However, despite such a wonderful experience I wanted to dive deeper into walkers’ uncertainty and its rhythm, and I couldn’t feel it on the well blazed paths of the Camino.
Therefore in 2011 I first cycled from Umag to Dubrovnik, and in the fall of the same year I followed a hiking trail through Istria in order to explore the region. I walked for nine days without a tent, each day arriving to a new village and asking for any kind of shelter to spend the night. In those nine days of loneliness and wandering, I met a lot of people who provided me with accommodation, food or any kind of help in this endeavour. I learned more about myself and the places I was walking through than in any previous travel. Since then my steps keep following ancient historical routes, connecting two dots on the map, visiting significant cultural or natural areas. Walking enables me to learn more about myself and the world around me.