Maja and I have known each other for years, but we never got an opportunity to get more familiar. We met at the university, and after that a lot of times at various events, where we were starting to chat, but due to the circumstances we never get to develop our stories. However, from our the few conversations I guessed that the two of us would have a lot to talk about. When I discovered that Maja rides a bike with a basket, loves cooking and enjoys good wine, I knew I had a good presumptions about her. Maja is an adventurer who browses Europe on a bicycle, but she has the best feeling in the nature among the vegetation and the birds (so I was told). From her bicycle route along the Danube from Serbia through Bulgaria, she brought us the wonderful photos and the story of the kingdom of pelicans and warm-hearted people. Since I normally bind Bulgaria with good memories, these photos and stories only confirmed my remembrance.

Our shadows and the shadows of our loaded bikes were slowly moving down the street of semi-deserted Srebarna. We were passing along the village courtyards and sun fell/shone into the rain pipes between the walls, and we felt on our feets the august heat beating from the stone. Srebarna is lovely Bulgarian village as well as the Biosphere Reserve, and our Bed and Breakfast place halfway to the Danube Delta in Romania.
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