The End of it | Iraq | [E50]

It's a gift from Captain Charmed. And back there, right there, I will sleep tonight. Good morning all my beautiful people. I hope you're doing well. I had a wonderful night at Ali's place. It was so good to finally meet him. He's an amazing soul. And stay with him for the night. Now I'm going down to another place. It's not that far away. It's Al Zamawa. And there, yeah, you will see where I will stay. I have a little story to tell you. I'm delivering actually a letter. A letter to a Dutch woman in this city. So when I was in Duhoch, my host told me if I could bring this letter to her down in this city. I said, of course, I'm going down, so why not? So this letter has been going by friends. I think it's been in the UK, traveling by friends to Kurdistan, Iraq. And now I'm bringing it down to her in Al Zamawa. I think, I don't know if I pronounced it right, but something like that. So you will see where I will stay there. Yep. Let the adventure continue. Oh my God, a ship in the hand. Wow. From Ali's house, it's like 25 minutes to Al Zamawa. I'm just doing a tiny, tiny ride and I will explore the area there for you so you can see a little bit. Because I will stay there for a couple of days. It's a gift. Thank you. And here we have the guys' bikes. BMW and we have Africa Twin here with Ali. Super nice bike. Very, very nice. Super cool guys. In the garage. My God, the guys in the garage. They're so amazing. I went to one of the guys' family as well. I met the wife and the children and I really liked them. Really good family as well. We do so many good families here. And people overall, Iraqis are just fantastic people. My God. I wish you all could experience this. I said it before, but I'm trying to take you through my world to give knowledge about this amazing country that's been through a lot of hard stuff. Hard history. I will stay in a eco farm and they will deliver the letter to the Dutch woman. She's working on that farm and they have an Airbnb there. So they offered me to stay there. So that's the plan to go there. Stay for a few days. Enjoy the countryside. You know, I grew up on the countryside and it feels like home when I'm out in the wild. So I'm very happy to be there. It's going to be interesting to see and meet the guys over there as well. I'm very curious. Here it should be somewhere. It's a railroad here, look. Here maybe. Look, look, look. Arouf, exactly. An organic farm. Oh, the rabbits. So cute. Here we go. Nice. That's a special technique. And then, okay. And then, wow. Here, how do you hold it? I don't know how to hold it. Hello, all my beautiful people. I'm on my way to a garage over here. It's two guys, Sarmat and Ali from Iraqi bikers in Samoa. They will help me a little bit with my bike because this one, you know, my charger is not working anymore. So they could help me with that. They had a really good charging thing adapter I could use. So I will go there and see if they can help me. And behind me is the way to the farm. It's going to get on the highway. Concentration, concentration. Good. So I will go over there, check it out, say hi to the guys. They're super, super kind. And then we'll see what I do if I stay in town or if I go back. Let's go. And you see along the road here, a lot of people are walking towards Karbala for the Amayin walk, I think it's called. Sorry, I'm pronouncing it probably wrong. We see all the stands here where the volunteers are helping out the pilgrims who are walking this distance. So they're standing there with food and water and they're helping them with accommodations. You see all the stands here is for that. That's in the end of June, I think, mid-June or something like that. But the most common walk is from Najaf to Karbala, but people even walk from Basra to Karbala. It's a long road, you know, it takes a long time. Najaf to Karbala is 80 kilometers. Basra to Karbala, I don't even know, but it's far. Impressive. I think the garage is just over here, if I don't remember wrong. It was next to the river and I pointed it out on my map, but I'm not sure if it was the right place. Okay, yeah, I recognize this. This place, it should be, right? So good. There we go. Hello, assalamu alaikum. Exactly, exactly. That should be all right, because then I have this one here. Brilliant. They're so kind helping me here. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm not sure what else I need. I don't think I need anything else on my bike. I'm pretty good. All good. I have so many stuff here. Very organized and nice. My breaks are finished, it seems like. It is finally happening. I have a thing for the phone, a phone holder it's called. Yay! With the USB, which is working now. This one, uh-uh, not working at all. It's so good. Perfect. The guys here are working on the brake pads as well, the front pads. I have my own, but they offered theirs, which is so kind. Yeah, good. I can rest my legs there. Okay, that's good. And she's getting a shower. Shower on. Doing a great job, this guy. We need some coolant as well. I'm running out. Wow, it's such a motorcycle community here in Iraq. I'm speechless. So these guys, they fixed my phone holder here with a charger as well. I can charge my phone. I have this head thing, it's really warm. They changed the brake pads because they were soon finished in the front. So they gave me new ones, even though I had the extra with me. They filled the coolant, they washed my bike. I'm speechless. Anyway, thank you, thank you, thank you, shukran, shukran. I'm going to Lotte, the woman I delivered the letter to. She's living somewhere here with her husband and her kids. So I will just go there and say hi and yeah, visit her for a little bit. And then we'll see. I'll probably go back to the farm because I feel a little bit like sore in my throat. I have a little cough. I had some fever the other day, but now I'm much better. I'm still just coughing a little bit and like sore throat, but it's all right. With some rest in the farm, I got better. Maybe tonight I will stay in one of the tents, like the, what do you call it? Not a tipi tent, but a traditional tent over here. We'll see. Somewhere over here. And then we're done. So I went to Lotte and had lunch with her husband and children and then we went to the orchard, which is owned by a Swedish man. So he has a lot of flowers and fruits, like oasis is beautiful over there. Fruits and flowers and a lot of dogs and puppies, like super cute puppies. It was really good to go over there and meet him and speak a little bit Swedish. Welcome to the little farm. I'm staying in that room and then you have a second room right here and this is like the living room of the place, like this. They have a lot of plants and it's the kitchen. It's really nice. I like it here a lot. It's so calm and peaceful. And now when I was in the garage to fix my bike, I got so many things, like this bunch of dates. And these are the best dates I think I tried in my whole life. The days in Sweden are nothing like these ones. These are better than chocolates. They are a bomb. They're so soft, so soft and so sweet and just have this amazing taste. I wish I could transfer the taste through the lens. Alright guys, so I will sleep in this beautiful little tent here with my friend over there, the little house cat here. I think he's gonna stay with me. But this is my bed and this is the tent. Oh, I'm so happy. And here we have the fire and this was the dolma. Yeah. Can I open? Okay. Sitting area, beautiful, lot of light and amazing people. Yes. Thank you. You're gonna sleep with me? I don't know. Delicious. Mr. Cat, hey. What was the dress called again? Dishdashi. Dishdashi. I'm wearing a dishdashi. Sitting here like a king. I'm wearing a dishidasha, I think it's called. I'm probably not pronouncing it right. This thing that the men are using in the Middle East, especially out in the desert. But I'm gonna try it on. And we had a feast here with dinner and a lot of sweets, a lot of sweets with pistachio and walnuts and all kind of things. And the fire is going there still with the blonde coffee. We're trying the Saudi Arabian coffee, which is not black, it's blonde and it's very interesting taste. Not really the same as the coffee I'm used to, but it's still good. And back there, right there, I will sleep tonight in my tent, in this beautiful tent. So me and the kitty kitty cat, are you coming? Are you coming? He's probably gonna sleep with me too here. Yeah. Do you wanna sleep in the tent? Yes, of course you want to. See, it's blonde. Blonde coffee. So good night, I see you tomorrow.