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I meet the first tourists (and cyclists!) Tim & Djinn in India. They left Amsterdam in May 2018 and are heading towards Sri Lanka. Confrontation of Slavic and Germanic survival strategies over long distances.
The Slav, whose mentality was shaped in post-communist Eastern Europe is a trickster, distrust of the future which results in innate saving, so he goes on the third position because scientists discovered that in the peloton an air tunnel is formed and the person riding on the last position consumes 5% of the energy of the first biker. Germans have a system of sleeping in the temples on the side of the city. They usually support small donations. They don’t smile at local people they meet, they are reluctant to take selfies and accidental conversations. Stories are famous when a Polish friend calls an intercom to German and wants to meet him now, and he answers that he would have to make an appointment a few days earlier. The Slavic cyclist is spontaneous, he likes to improvise like a jazzman, so he doesn’t stop with the Germanes in the temple, but he seeks an adventure by attacking the city centre where he initially fails because they offer him an iron bed in the open air at the back of the vegetable market only. After the adventures, he finds a free night in a government VIP building that looks like a 5 * hotel, and in the morning a group of a dozen journalists appears puts flower wreaths around his neck and wants to hear his story.
During the Second World War, the Germans fought economically, attacking Poles from afar and retreated surprised by seeing spontaneously coming soldiers and asking “Why so bloodily?”.