https://videos.trom.tf/w/wzX4pYXezXisZbxE8upp1A
Here I gorged on berries and found a very beautiful camping spot 😀
Here I walked from Lac de Mar on the HRP, camped by Lac Tort de Rius, then joined back up with the GR11 and walked down to Refugi de Conangles, then camped by Estany de Anglios. (All in Spain).
https://videos.trom.tf/w/uqTyudp1MvcF7GTzKSSbgX
Here I walked from Estanh Long de Colomers, followed the GR11 trail to Lac Deth, where I swam, camped, and made a satay chicken taco 😄 On day 31 I walked to Lake Restanca and then onto the HRP to Lac de Mar.
Very impressive lakes in this part of the Spanish Pyrenees! I loved them!
I had a very nice rest day at Lake Maurici- where you’re absolutely not supposed to camp! Ooops 😄. Then I walked through Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Catalonia's only national park, with almost 200 lakes) and camped near Lake Obago.
https://videos.trom.tf/w/3WjVNkM9HmYvG7xsruJQHz
Here I walked from Tavascan (Spain) to Lake Maurici, passing by a few small villages and finding camping wherever possible. I also learned a lesson here: never put your bag on the ground in these small villages- as there are plenty of dogs there!
Here I walked from the Baiau Refuge, turned off of the GR11 to trek the HRP (Haute Route Pyrenees) and slept in Refugi de Baborte (also called Refugi del Cinquantenari). Then I took another variation and followed a trail called “La Porta del Cel” to get back to the GR11 at a little village called Tavascan.
A day well spent! 😄
https://videos.trom.tf/w/aCRyTbyUcMUJQJRcHYKWgP
Music: Light Scenery by Olezha Chopalish
https://videos.trom.tf/w/4eLZSfaA6SWj74rePNmd8f
Here I walked from Andorra to Spain and stayed in Refugi Baiau “Josep Maria Montfort”- an awesome free shelter by a gorgeous mountain lake 😀
https://www.lx.com/entertainment/is-the-couch-surfing-revolution-still-alive/49918/
It’s a nice video with a positive message in the end. The only thing it’s missing, I’d say, is a mention of some alternative couchsurfing platforms like https://www.trustroots.org/ and https://www.bewelcome.org/ – those that haven’t morphed into an evil profit-driven company 😁
I explained the whole Couchsurfing story in more detail here- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/05/26/the-death-of-couchsurfing/
That’s why I’m in this mini-doc 😀
Do You Know Where You Come From?
There’s an extraordinary fact about Earthlings- and all Earth things- that I suspect many people are not aware of. It’s a story- an incredible story that we, humans, have discovered fairly recently.Big World | Small Sasha

I added some Pyrenees photos to my photo page: https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/photos/
It seemed a bit out of date since I had nothing there since 2019. Now 2021 is there :)

Love those Pyrenees mountain lakes :)
Over the past 2-3 months I've been coming back to the secret octopus bay and I've figured out that there are three octopuses that like human feet :D And there is one octopus that is particularly friendly. She even took me by the hand, held me in strong current, and dragged me around the bay!
I updated my octopus blog with a bunch of new videos so you can see all of this here- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2021/04/28/meeting-an-octopus/
Or on PeerTube: https://videos.trom.tf/accounts/sasha/videos
I’ll spend the rest of the summer walking across the Pyrenees Mountains and thinking about it 😁
I plan to leave in 1 week.
Here's our latest TROM-Cast: https://www.tromsite.com/videos/
This one was about movies, our personal opinions about movies, and the impact that movies have on society.
You can also watch it on Peertube - https://videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/b67faea3-8bf7-47b7-ba66-c7ffebfb405a
65. Movies
We recommend our VideoNeat collections of movies https://www.videoneat.com/category/movies/ and our book "The For-Profit Entertainment" https://www.tromsite.com/books/#flipbook-df_9908/1/videos.trom.tf
I actually didn't realize how much time I spent hitchhiking around the world until I wrote this book :D There are a lot of hitching stories in there. Mostly good ones, but some were a tiny bit frightening too.
I also brought back a section that I had deleted earlier (from Chapter 8) so now the book is a bit over 150,000 words but maybe it's better that way, we'll see.
Now I'll have to make just a few small changes to Chapter 25 (the 2nd-to-last chapter) and then I'll see if I can manage to finish editing the conclusion or if I'll have to mull over it for a while longer.
This was definitely one of the most incredible places I've ever seen, and the interesting part about this place is that there are a bunch of hippies living in that valley and making pizza :D
I hope to come back there one day and stay for a little while.
I also edited chapter 24 and 25 (Europe and Nicaragua) but I might go over it one more time.
And now I'm on the conclusion! ...And I'm struggling with it.
I'll try to take it little by little, hopefully finish by next week, and then we'll record my part for TROM2 documentary ;)
Now I just finished a part about Sri Lanka, which I struggled with a bit. I managed to cut out a bunch of pages so now the book is about 150,000 words. I don't think there's much more I can cut out but maybe that's okay.
Here's a photo of the Dambulla cave temple in Sri Lanka 😀
This one was about Cambodia, Thailand, Russia, Bulgaria and Morocco. Random, yes, but it made sense at the time :D
Here's a photo from this chapter-
This is from the Ta Prohm temple in the jungles of Cambodia (part of the Temples of Angkor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta_Prohm
I decided to include an entire chapter about climate change in the book. At first, I thought that perhaps it deviated too much from the story, but I think I’ll leave it there because it’s an important topic and it impacted my perspective of the world quite a lot. Besides, the book will be called “Big World small Sasha” so it’s not only about the small Sasha- it’s also about the Big World :D
Here’s a part of what I wrote for that climate change chapter- https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/2020/02/15/why-were-changing-the-climate-but-not-ourselves/
I didn’t change much since I worked on this section a lot back when I was writing it.
www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book
Here's one of my favorite photos from Indonesia. This is Gunung Rinjani, a volcano I once fell in love with 😀