After the dark side, this is the good side of Austrian people.
Everything passed correctly since Innsbruck. I continue to walk 30 or 40 km every days, during 8 or 9 hours, and I go, inexorably. And I slept twice in someone's home -> the first time, I passed in a village and choose to eat in a kebab in a little shop (kebab = cheap, bread + meat + vegetables + hot). The woman there is interested by my bag, and engage the discusion (like everytime, in fact : austrian people don't travel with big bagpacks on the back, and are always surprised). And I discover she's Kurd ! I profit to speak her about my travel and ask her some informations about Turkis weather in winter, the possibility to find a job, etc... She fills enthusiasm about it, and speaks a lot, offers me a turkish tea, and call her neighbourg in the pub closed to the shop : a kurd girl too.
This one is impressed notably when I try to tell her the few words I know in Turkish. When i decide to leave, she stop me : she just called a friend of her and it's decided : I will sleep in his home. I'm surprised, and a bit suspicious, I inform more, but the guy is a very nice farmer living at 10 minutes of there. I will sleep on his sofa, and start again the morning after.
The second time was better : I'm arrived the evening in a little town, and I find a little restaurant (open) and decid to stop there befor looking for a little place to sleep this night. Same screenplay : my bagpack and my head intrigue, we have a talk and this time, I find a family fond of trips and tramps ! The mother traveled in the entire world, and consider me like a friend. And her daughter seems to be like her mother and will not leave the board before midnight. At start, the leader offered me to sleep in the garden, , but during the conversation, she changed her decision : she offer me the dinner, and at the end, I will sleep in a good bed. But before, we will talk about her travels in Yemen.
The next morning, her daughter take over from the mother : she offer me the breakfast and we talk one hour before I leave. She want to follow my travel and ask me for a postal card.
So, this day, I was in good condition to make a new record !
And simplier, there is all the people who just want to cheer me : once, a girl who's got a bar closed to Vorkchdorf, not far of Salzburg, refused I pay my cofee, a second time, a couple in a petrol station in Steyr did the same and offer me 2 chocolate tabs more (You need energy !), with a large smile. And I have to confess I walk longer and better with a large smile like this one in memory than with all the cofee and chocolate of the world !
Moreover, young people are more interested (without too much generalisation) : on the road, it's more young people who greet me , with the hand, the klaxon, or stopping to talk.
-> in Steyr, a young man stop his car and proposed to take me : I refused, of course, but my bag intrigue him, and he's inquisitive. I explain him I come from France and go to Vienne. Not by foot ? Yes by foot, of course ! Waah Super ! (I'm jaded), well, the guy check my hand and go, and I forgot him (I meet this people every day). But 2 km farest, he joined me, by foot, and ask me the autorisation to follow me on a few kilometers : he is enthusiastic and want to learn more. We'll spend half an hour talking together : he's 21 years old, starting his life, he dream about travels, he learn russian to find a job in Moscow... I talk him about my project until Shanghai, why and how : he want to follow me and we exchange ours adress.
A nice guy like i would meet every day.
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