Prologue: Getting There

As a chronically broke student, flights to Greece in high summer season are nearly unaffordable, therefore a different means of getting to our starting point had to be used. Therefore we took a train to Innsbruck in Austria, then further on to Venice.

 

After spending the night in Venice, looking at some things and dozing on random park benches, we boarded a ferry to Greece the day after. Due to the mostly sleepless night, I slept most of the journey on deck of the ship, happily there was no rain whatsoever and we weren't forced to stay in the heavily air conditioned indoor part of the ship.

 

When we arrived in Igoumenitsa about one day after we left Venice, we took a bus to Ioannina and one more bus to Konitsa, where we arrived in the evening. So actually the journey to the starting point had taken us nearly three days.

 

We quickly had a good dinner in a restaurant and then started the first few hundred meters of the path across the old arched bridge which we wanted to go the next day to find a suitable spot for our tent. We weren't successful though, so we ended up setting up camp at the side of the dirt road at the beginning of our route, in a spot where the road was marginally broader than everywhere else. At least a car could still pass if need be.