Cycling and travel

Wine - the Crimean Cycling extravaganza

600 km

Anapa - Vityazevo - Taman - the port of Caucasus - port of Crimea - Kerch - adzhimushkay - Bulganak Bay - Bay reefs - Chokrak lake - General's beaches - gold - shcholkine - Feodosiya - ridge Tepe-Oba mountain Dzhan-Kotaran - Koktebel, Fox Bay - Megan - pike - Privetnoe Alushta - Yalta - Alupka AI-Petri - Yalta

4 September - 21 September 2012

Beautiful you are, Tavrida shores,
When you see the ship
By the light of morning Kiprida,
As you the first time I saw;
You appeared to me in the splendor of marriage:
The sky is blue and clear
Shining heaps of your mountains,
Valleys, trees, villages pattern
Was spread out before me.
And there, between higino Tatars...
What I woke up in a fever!
What a magical melancholy

Shy fiery Breasts!
But, Muse! forget the past.
What would the feelings of any concealed
Skinny me — now they are not:
They have passed or have changed...
Peace to you, anxiety of the last years!
At that time it seemed to me necessary
Desert, waves edge pearl,
And the sea noise, and piles of rocks,
And proud Virgo ideal,
And nameless suffering...
Other days, other dreams;
You have reconciled, my spring
Lofty dreams,
And in a poetic glass
Water I've put.