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Tuesday 11th to Wednesday 12th December 2012. Bolu, Istanbul, Svilengrad. The next morning we ate from the hotel’s buffet breakfast before setting off. We dined quietly with the many business men staying in the hotel. It was all very civilized and, well, sterile and unfriendly. Back on the road we turned Bluebelle’s heating up to full in a desperate attempt…
We didn’t really know what was going to await us in Bulgaria. I think we expected to be thrown back into the Dark Ages, and we had heard from our hitchhiker in Turkey that Bulgaria is a ridiculously cheap place to eat and drink. We had also heard about nasty policemen hiding in the bushes just waiting to exchange a…
Turcia/ Turkey – Bulgaria – Romania 30/07 – 02/08 Ca de obicei cand ne-a placut un loc, am stat la taclale pana tarziu, desi a doua zi aveam de taiat Turcia de-a lungul, din Cappadocia pana la tarmul marii Egee. Dimineata a fost panica. Intra in scena Ceaiul Turcesc, solutia lichida anti-somnorosi. We knew the drill. We had a killer…
Location: 48 40′ 29″ N 26 34′ 18″ E (Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine) Distance to Sydney: 15,482km Originally we planned to travel through Turkey, cross the Black Sea into Russia at Sochi, and head north-east from there towards Kazakhstan. However uncertainty around the reliability of the ferry services, and the numbing heat in Turkey made us decide to circle north through Bulgaria,…
We crossed rest of Europe very quickly. In Romania we found a great place to camp. That was one of the gorges located in the mountains and for us it was like diamond in the rough as it was seemed that only locals knew about this place. The road conditions of western part of Bulgaria suggested that this part of…
Bulgaria, a set on Flickr. Here’s the thing: Bulgaria is too agreeable by half. It provides for a pleasant enough place to visit, and no real negatives. But when the best emotion you get out of a country is indifference, that’s almost worse than a bad experience. Bulgaria is bland in the same sad way as plain yogurt. Plain yogurt…
Romania So with a plan to head towards Romania and see the Bears cave and Draculas Castle we made our way out of Hungary. The road out was fairly uninteresting a mix of good and bad tarmac but the funny thing is well it showed me how oblivious Cat was As we went along the highway every now and again…