We briefly as possible:
Estonia: Tallinn capital (1 euro = 15 EEK)
(For those who do not know, all the countries of which are EU speak.)
in Estonia was a teacher, Anu, who met Brad and I anho course last April, Greece / Turkey. Planned to stay 2 days, but ultimately they were 4, since she and her husband were the most hospitable. The first day (14 Sept.) Engages him around the city of Tallinn, 400000 hab., With medieval historical center, Hanseatic, very nice. Interesting things:
1) Anu and family (they have 2 Ninh, a boy of 7 and a boy of anhos 5, blondie of all, blue eyes) live in a wooden house from the early twentieth century, enormous, and 5 minutes centero. Like the majority of Estonians are fully computerized, and is that Estonia, along with Slovenia, a leader in new technologies and access to information.
2) Of the 1,300,000 inhabitants in, 300000 are of Russian origin, and have the status of non-citizens (aliens). I guess his economic status is below the Estonian citizens. Like me these things are cool, I went to a big market just behind the train station, almost all Russians, and saw the precariousness of living. Vendian all, much of the merchandise was all sorts of things used up almost plastic! Take a picture than another, and even a Russian woman approached me and told me not to do more, though panoramic views of the market were made with the proper education.
3) Estonia does not tiene national food, and eating in restaurants that went with Anu and Karl not to remember, so to speak. In the end, northern Europe ...
4) It is a shame! The first day, Anu told me that well! Thursday night a dinner espanhola us, do you think? (Is that meals like Italian, Greek, etc., And were happy to attend the preparation of a dish spanish). Even now should freak out so I told them do not even make an omelette espanhola. It's a real shame. I remember when I was in Holland, a group of friends each week we organized what we called francaises soirees, dinner at the French were talking only to practice. When my turn came, a couple of them had to take over the theme: dif the economy grows at rate estonia vertigo: 10% pa! Faster even than China.
I'm leaving on Monday, 18 bus, to 7 manhana to Riga (reaching 11 in the manhana).
Latvia: Riga capital (1 euro = 0.69 LVL)
I decide to spend the night. 15-bed hostel beds: 5 lats. Latvia is the country with the lowest income per capita of the EU, and must be the cheapest. At least that is the cheapest I found so far, although Poland also is pretty cheap!
Riga, old town, medieval Hanseatic, puy jar and herposa.
19, Tuesday. Floor accelerator. Morning bus to Kaunas, in southern Lithuania.
Lithuania: Vilnius capital (1 euro = 3.43 litas)
Kaunas: old town, but not muand spectacular. What most impressed me was the central avenue, entirely pedestrian, very long, elegant, and very lively. The food probe was not bad.
the afternoon to Vilnius, but I approached the center, and caught a 23:00 bus to Warsaw, Central Poland, to arrive at 8:30 am Sept. 20. Later contact with the 2 Polish Barcelona (see "around the ring), and they answered even later, from Stary Szac, south of Cracow (southern Poland), which visits these became impossible. Agnieszka, the other teacher that Brad and I met in Greece / Turkey, I expected before nightfall, in Poznan, western Poland. Finally, again will be ...
Poland: Warsaw capital (1 euro = 3.9 zloty)
whole ride manhana por the reconstructed old city of Warsaw and in the afternoon train very comfortable and very fast (over 300 km in 2 hours) from Warsaw to Poznan. I did here?
21: Visit to the restored historical center of Poznan (very nice, really) and Agnieszka afternoon invited to a Polish friend married to a Chinese (Beijing area), a cook in a Chinese restaurant, cook dinner China at home. Only spoke Polish and Chinese, so I had to do mental effort and recall what I have Chinese in my head. It was like going back to China again! Extranho this summer, by Jove! Delicious all ....
22: Walk through the city. A couple of museums and now this. And I am tired of the hustle. Van and 2 ½ months in the country passing through 21
Friday, September 22, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Hursthouse And Abortion Rights
The
the Balkans ended on September 5: Bus morning to Gorizia (Italy). It is a city divided into 2: a part in Italy and one in Slovenia. I had seen in a magazine, and made me ilu cross the border there. You walk down a street, and when you least expect it, a checkpoint, a barrier, and Italian police who will ask for your passport.
dungeon Finally the euro! I was already fed up with both Exchange! Tour
Gorizia, Tresviso train from there to Venice, ride to run through the city, crowded with tourists to unbearable limits (does not matter, and had been there for about 15 anhos), and plane to Girona. Incidentally, the airport is CONH Tresviso. This on one side of a street, as if a Estac PequenhoI start to get bored.
11: I'm bored.
12: I'm bored! Pillo
train to Barcelona at 6:40 pm. Supposedly has to reach about 11 of the manhana to Sants station. More than enough time to catch the plane (Air Estonia) Barcelona -> Tallinn at 4:50 pm. Even I could be eating with Sibarita, shower, rest ...
Torrential rain in the Catalan coast
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/se_espania/noticia.jsp?CAT=103&TEXTO=5103899
My train that stops at about 9:30 (we on September 13 by the manhana) in the ghost town of Vinaixa, only 150 km from Barcelona. They pass the hours, and nothing. Penha nervousness, hysteria of someHICA toll consulting, and says no.
- beautiful Well, see you at the beach ...
By mobile phone:
- with whom I have the pleasure of speaking?
- With Maria.
- A very nice name. I am Joan ...
And so the whole way. After 4 hours in that trap, the Joan and his sympathies were all a blessing. And he had an arsenal of new technologies, the guy!
- Radar to 500 meters. Maximum speed 100 km per hour. going down the speed, and a lap later km to 140 km per hour. This is how it arrives on time for my flight to the capital of Estonia. Barcelona, or oli. That summer, the God of my life! Continue
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Monday, September 4, 2006
Open Road Travel Trailer
Links must be found has to work harder than usual. Hours. Anhadirse also has a higher than normal traffic, both passenger cars and buses, and trucking. Anhade this excessive zeal of the Slovenian police, which led us to check off the bus one by one, passports, and more traffic in Slovenia (in addition to two stops in two villages), and leave the accounts to perfection . Someone then calculate the average speed. I prefer to forget.
Sali from Split to Zagreb at 7 o'clock, to reach the capital of Croatia at 12. That is 5 hours. Perfect. But I was reluctant, preferring to wait 3 hours in the season to go for a walk, run, through the center of the city, which is in the boonies, on the other side. The Zagreb to Ljubljana occurred between 12:25 and 19:30, more or less.
(Slovenia: 1 euro = 240 tolar)
- Where are you? - Ask me (in English) a seller of tickets to one of the windows of the bus station in Ljubljana.
- English.
- Congratulations! You have just proclaim basketball world champions.
- I do not know ... as I'm traveling, do not watch TV or read the news ...
- Well if you won in Greece.
- Greece! I have many friends in Greece. In fact I come from there now.
- I am Greek, though born here. My father is Greek and Slovenian mother ...
And that's how I found out about the basket, and as Smalltalk in Greek in the heart of Slovenia, pa
Sali from Split to Zagreb at 7 o'clock, to reach the capital of Croatia at 12. That is 5 hours. Perfect. But I was reluctant, preferring to wait 3 hours in the season to go for a walk, run, through the center of the city, which is in the boonies, on the other side. The Zagreb to Ljubljana occurred between 12:25 and 19:30, more or less.
(Slovenia: 1 euro = 240 tolar)
- Where are you? - Ask me (in English) a seller of tickets to one of the windows of the bus station in Ljubljana.
- English.
- Congratulations! You have just proclaim basketball world champions.
- I do not know ... as I'm traveling, do not watch TV or read the news ...
- Well if you won in Greece.
- Greece! I have many friends in Greece. In fact I come from there now.
- I am Greek, though born here. My father is Greek and Slovenian mother ...
And that's how I found out about the basket, and as Smalltalk in Greek in the heart of Slovenia, pa
Sample Wedding Sales Letter 11th stage: Sochi (Russia) -> Adler (Russia) -> Sochi (Russia), 4, 5 and 6 August
August 4, by the manhana.
- I want a ticket to Suchumi.
- Suchumi? Nyet! ... Adler minibus ... "Granitsa" (border, in Russian)!
knew I was going to say no, that there was no bus to Suchumi, but I wanted to be sure. As the train I had it even clearer, since all the lines had as Adler final season, at the border with Georgia. Suchumi was the first major city on the route along the coast of Georgia ... I say Georgia? ... Abjazhia or should I say?
In the final stop of Adler, a village 32 km from Sochi, and full, like it not, of Russian tourists, the minibusero me a senha to indicate the direction to the border. 500 meters walk y. ..
- Passport? ... oh! a ingles!
The officer spoke only Russian. It carries the passport offices and border police, after a while, comes a boy of about 30 anhos or less, in plain clothes who said to belong to the security department of the Russian border. He spoke some English.
- Abjazhia want to go?
- I really want to go all the coast of Georgia. I'm circling the Black Sea ... (Unfold my huge map, to explain better, attracting the curiosity of others passing cops and curious). Abjazhia is a region of Georgia, right?
- Well ... region, region ...
the early 90's the Soviet Union imploded. Was Abjazhia northwestern region of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia.re abjazhios and Georgians. At first, the Georgians take control of the region, but then abjazhios, with the invaluable help of the Russians, are made throughout the region. From there begins a process of ethnic cleansing, with mass killings and expulsions of Georgians. Today, there are only Georgian communities in the southeastern province of Gaul.
Abjazhia's government is a corrupt government, not recognized by any country (even Russia), but the government of a de facto independent country. The armed conflict is still alive in some parts of the northern region, but not on the coast, so it seems. (For more information:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjazia
)
(or is aboutor you can re-enter ... "Game over!" (Exact words). - And you can not cross the bridge (30 meters) and abjazhia police ask if they would go to a spanish citizen? "Not really. It is not our job.
The Russians, on all sides, proved to be a professional. Stick to their work, and only his work. It was a shame because you know that I accept abjazhias authorities, and would have risked crossing the border. Or, if I had a Russian visa for 2 or more tickets ... Back
sad
Sochi. What now? No longer see the ground full circle to the Black Sea ... but ... if there is a boat to the "Georgian area" of Georgia, you can still say that I turned the Black Sea, but one area Pequenho g. In any case, I was good, because so I could leave my money, passport and camera in the hotel safe, and can thus meet one of the suenhos, still pending, my life: going to a water park!
was not at all a wonder of waterpark, but I pass the bomb! I was there 3 hours, until I decided to climb the last "pull" that I had ...
was a straight slide, very, very steep, and metal surface, very smooth and polished, with a thin layer of water to slide better. You had to wait your turn, and climb to a kind of sleigh-shaped car. The thing is, to get down and make contact with the water of the pool, to an "aqua-planning" until it brokeThe last night of the 6, I went to the train station, at about 10, and two Russian girls, one of which spoke very good English, I was offered the chance to spend the night in a bed on a balcony ... On a balcony ...
sounded good, and the price seemed reasonable (400 rubles). After some business we went by taxi to the apartment with balcony: the Russian who spoke English, Russian sister did not speak English (or dad, although he tried), the boyfriend of the latter, a Serb, who worked in albanhil construction of a huge building next to the promenade, and the nerd who writes.
The bed on the balcony was a minimum bed, drop down, as minimal as the balcony, which was nothing more than the terrace from the kitchen of one more of those apartments snts that the Communists had the shamelessness to build.
shared an apartment with a Russian couple of students who occupied a room, and two Georgian refugees or immigrants, who (coincidence?) Would travel to Georgia in my same boat.
After "settle down", the Russian and Serbian invited me to go to dinner, and not only went to dinner, but also went running with them. A good bounce from Russia!
(btw: you know that in Russia the vast majority of the dancers in the clubs are women. I could not believe my eyes: If you had 20 people on the dance floor, 18 were women! "This is a paradise! "- was telling Lana, the Russian who spoke English - and he laughed .... In fact it was she who appointed him c
Sunday, September 3, 2006
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Printable Bonefish Coupon
We
August 31 I had to stay to sleep in Trebinje. There is only one daily bus to Dubrovnik (Croatia) (a 10 in the manhana), and luckily there is one!
September 1 (day 57 off Espanha)
only took me about 45 minutes, including the border crossing between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. A large bus and only 3 or 4 passengers, of which only two cross the border. The others stayed in villages along the road.
The road is, of course, Mountains. Mountains are now little or no trees, and when we got to the last, which gives way to the sea, we're still in the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The distance between the sea and the border in Croatia, the tapers more and more the further south we are,Somehow, I prefer to Trebinje.
Dubrovnik was besieged between 1991 and 1992 (if I remember correctly) by the Yugoslav Army, Bosnian Serb militias and the militias of Serbia and Montenegro. It was defended by its inhabitants, of which 200 were killed. There is a memorial, with their pictures and mini-biographies in a Pequenho old city building. The show also, with video, pictures of the destruction left by the war. Now understand better what's there is only one bus a day between the Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje and the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, and that practically no one take, no?
Afternoon - 17:00 - caught a bus to Split, Croatia's second city, 200 km to the north and along the coast as well. Bosnia and Herzegovina is about mucho on the coast south of Croatia, as I said, as a Pequenho stretch of about 15 km. the coast is Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pequenho In this piece of coast is a village, Neum, a seaport and beach. So we have to cross the border 2 times, you go back to Bosnia and Herzegovina (there is Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and then go back to enter Croatia. But both steps are fast: get a cop, check all passports and identity cards, and now this. Uf
that slumber ... zzz ... (The bus stops and I wake up)
- Split? - Ask a blonde babe sensually reclining sitting across the aisle.
- Yes, Split! (Voice keep blonde)
Blonde horny bimbo (say). I meanSplit must. Split
I liked so much, I appeared so calm and relaxing, I decided to stay all the next day, Sept. 2. Walk around the old town, fried calamari (accompaniment, a good pint of cold beer Croatian) and nothing in a popular tourist eatery, banho in the crystal waters of the Adriatic, reading of the country in a bank in the promenade. .. in short, a real stress of the day.
Ah! And also take the opportunity to plan the trip: I have already booked a plane from Venice to Barcelona for the day 5. So within 3 days left to me I do the following:
Day 3: bus or train to Zagreb (Croatia cap.) by manhana early out, and continue to Ljubljana (Chapter of Slovakia
August 31 I had to stay to sleep in Trebinje. There is only one daily bus to Dubrovnik (Croatia) (a 10 in the manhana), and luckily there is one!
September 1 (day 57 off Espanha)
only took me about 45 minutes, including the border crossing between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. A large bus and only 3 or 4 passengers, of which only two cross the border. The others stayed in villages along the road.
The road is, of course, Mountains. Mountains are now little or no trees, and when we got to the last, which gives way to the sea, we're still in the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The distance between the sea and the border in Croatia, the tapers more and more the further south we are,Somehow, I prefer to Trebinje.
Dubrovnik was besieged between 1991 and 1992 (if I remember correctly) by the Yugoslav Army, Bosnian Serb militias and the militias of Serbia and Montenegro. It was defended by its inhabitants, of which 200 were killed. There is a memorial, with their pictures and mini-biographies in a Pequenho old city building. The show also, with video, pictures of the destruction left by the war. Now understand better what's there is only one bus a day between the Bosnian Serb town of Trebinje and the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, and that practically no one take, no?
Afternoon - 17:00 - caught a bus to Split, Croatia's second city, 200 km to the north and along the coast as well. Bosnia and Herzegovina is about mucho on the coast south of Croatia, as I said, as a Pequenho stretch of about 15 km. the coast is Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pequenho In this piece of coast is a village, Neum, a seaport and beach. So we have to cross the border 2 times, you go back to Bosnia and Herzegovina (there is Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) and then go back to enter Croatia. But both steps are fast: get a cop, check all passports and identity cards, and now this. Uf
that slumber ... zzz ... (The bus stops and I wake up)
- Split? - Ask a blonde babe sensually reclining sitting across the aisle.
- Yes, Split! (Voice keep blonde)
Blonde horny bimbo (say). I meanSplit must. Split
I liked so much, I appeared so calm and relaxing, I decided to stay all the next day, Sept. 2. Walk around the old town, fried calamari (accompaniment, a good pint of cold beer Croatian) and nothing in a popular tourist eatery, banho in the crystal waters of the Adriatic, reading of the country in a bank in the promenade. .. in short, a real stress of the day.
Ah! And also take the opportunity to plan the trip: I have already booked a plane from Venice to Barcelona for the day 5. So within 3 days left to me I do the following:
Day 3: bus or train to Zagreb (Croatia cap.) by manhana early out, and continue to Ljubljana (Chapter of Slovakia
Friday, September 1, 2006
What To Write In A Wedding Card Car The Balkans (part 4)
mong Čapljina Mostar and even in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, up and down passengers. Then we turned to West, and after about 20 km uninhabited by the montanha, we went through a gorge and a sign reading: "Welcome to the Republika Srpska." On the bus, only the driver, 3 passengers and a nerd. Yet very few people interested in crossing from one side to another.
From there, the bus returned to fill with passengers. The landscape also changed: the valleys were now completely flat, with grasses and lined the houses at the foot of the Mountains surrounding them. The Balkans are a treasure.
Trebinje is nothing, nothing tourism, which is striking because it is a Populated quite nice. It crosses a river with
From there, the bus returned to fill with passengers. The landscape also changed: the valleys were now completely flat, with grasses and lined the houses at the foot of the Mountains surrounding them. The Balkans are a treasure.
Trebinje is nothing, nothing tourism, which is striking because it is a Populated quite nice. It crosses a river with
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Masterbation In Public Transport The Balkans (part 3)
It's cold in Sarajevo!
Regards from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 euro = 1.95583 Bosnian convertible marks (KM) (note that 1 euro = 1.95583 German marks, hence the frame). The change was fixed within German (1 frame Bosnian convertible = 1 German mark), and now is fixed to the euro.
Indeed, I left to sleep in Podgorica. They say the decision really precedes reflection, the latter being a farce to be mental to believe self decide this or that after weighing the pros and cons.
Pille a bus to Sarajevo at 23:40 on August 29, fifty-fourth day abroad. Of course, I could see almost nothing por the way, except that the road is all curves during the tour, Mountains, with canhones to be a day pass, tunnels, total foliage. Road unfortunate situation, especially the Bosnian side.
pass the border at about 3. Montenegrin side, the cop asked me how long had in Montenegro, where he had been. The people on the bus was quite serious for the paperwork, the war - or war - the Balkans ended less than 10 anhos, and that is palpable. In the Bosnian side, nothing to stress: a stamp in most, another blank page. A waste. As do so, ran out the passport in less than two anhos. Interesting
: nothing but enter, it says "Welcome to Bosnia and Herzegovina." And 10 metersto a nearby hill for a panoramic city. And I could not have more luck: I found the Muslim cemetery that serves as a memorial of the war in Bosnia and in particular the siege of Sarajevo. There was no doubt: all the tombs (Muslim - the Islamic religion forbids the grave covered with slabs) had no dates of death before 1992 or after 1995, anhos the start and end the siege of Sarajevo, respectively. All I remember: the Serb snipers hidden in the Mountains that surround the city, shooting in cold blood the innocent civilians who had to mount barriers to move around without fear of being killed, the bloodiest attack in the market .. . how cruel ... pairar all these pictures of mine. I'll even get in trouble for copyright violation ...)
Regards from the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
(Bosnia and Herzegovina: 1 euro = 1.95583 Bosnian convertible marks (KM) (note that 1 euro = 1.95583 German marks, hence the frame). The change was fixed within German (1 frame Bosnian convertible = 1 German mark), and now is fixed to the euro.
Indeed, I left to sleep in Podgorica. They say the decision really precedes reflection, the latter being a farce to be mental to believe self decide this or that after weighing the pros and cons.
Pille a bus to Sarajevo at 23:40 on August 29, fifty-fourth day abroad. Of course, I could see almost nothing por the way, except that the road is all curves during the tour, Mountains, with canhones to be a day pass, tunnels, total foliage. Road unfortunate situation, especially the Bosnian side.
pass the border at about 3. Montenegrin side, the cop asked me how long had in Montenegro, where he had been. The people on the bus was quite serious for the paperwork, the war - or war - the Balkans ended less than 10 anhos, and that is palpable. In the Bosnian side, nothing to stress: a stamp in most, another blank page. A waste. As do so, ran out the passport in less than two anhos. Interesting
: nothing but enter, it says "Welcome to Bosnia and Herzegovina." And 10 metersto a nearby hill for a panoramic city. And I could not have more luck: I found the Muslim cemetery that serves as a memorial of the war in Bosnia and in particular the siege of Sarajevo. There was no doubt: all the tombs (Muslim - the Islamic religion forbids the grave covered with slabs) had no dates of death before 1992 or after 1995, anhos the start and end the siege of Sarajevo, respectively. All I remember: the Serb snipers hidden in the Mountains that surround the city, shooting in cold blood the innocent civilians who had to mount barriers to move around without fear of being killed, the bloodiest attack in the market .. . how cruel ... pairar all these pictures of mine. I'll even get in trouble for copyright violation ...)
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
Meralgia Paresthetica The Balkans (part 1)
Mountains or arid, but then trees. Rios. Valles. The first 50 km I saw that people have the name in Albanian and Greek. Not a single mosque, but churches in their place. Is clear: it is Ipiros Northern region belonging to Albania but inhabited by Greek minority. In fact, in this area live Boula cousins, who were cut off from rest of family for the incredibly cruel Stalinist regime of Enver Hoxha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha). There are also some "show" of pollution that they put sharp teeth. Rather malinhas roads, but they are fixing and expanding.
+ Although Albania has a lot to go, nothing to do with those images of vessels to the brim with hungry Albanians,desperate fled to Italy. Nor anything to do with insecurity. Here, in Tirana, is Monday and this petado of cafes, restaurants, Albanian and Albanian petados enjoying life as Athens or Rome. I'm in Europe, it is clear once again. Albania grows apace. Built everywhere, houses, buildings ...
+ The most nerd: to 750000 bunkers and air defense positions which invade the landscape. Hoxha, the insane, the build command to defend against possible internal revolutions and external attacks. To those who tried to flee the country were killed. So simple, so crude.
Seguire north: Monte Black (the newest country in the world), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and then splitting to Galicia, to the wedding
+ Although Albania has a lot to go, nothing to do with those images of vessels to the brim with hungry Albanians,desperate fled to Italy. Nor anything to do with insecurity. Here, in Tirana, is Monday and this petado of cafes, restaurants, Albanian and Albanian petados enjoying life as Athens or Rome. I'm in Europe, it is clear once again. Albania grows apace. Built everywhere, houses, buildings ...
+ The most nerd: to 750000 bunkers and air defense positions which invade the landscape. Hoxha, the insane, the build command to defend against possible internal revolutions and external attacks. To those who tried to flee the country were killed. So simple, so crude.
Seguire north: Monte Black (the newest country in the world), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, and then splitting to Galicia, to the wedding
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Small Estate Affidavit Florida
ria to see in Sochi two days later. Examples:
* A Cadillac / limousine huge, white, on the bonnet of which I could lie in postureo plan's dirt cheap, and take a picture for 50 rubles.
* Types of snakes, iguanas, parrots, to wash off the ridiculous picture.
* The worst of the worst (seen several times, to make matters worse): 2 black with fans (one short and paunchy), a throne "African style" in the middle, and the Russian or Russian, shamelessly climbs to be photographed. Ridiculous and, worse, ridicule. Then follow
less crowded streets, with detached houses, one after another (but would not be attached ... ha ha ... what nonsense! (Copyright Martes y Trece)), and repair on the doorappeared many of them repeated the word "Komatsu." Intuition (they're like 16 anhos and travel) that it was related to room / board (maybe helped that "Komatsu" is somewhat like "rooms" in Greek ("domatia")) and check out my phrase book Russian / English ... bingo.
senhoras The surprise of seeing a foreigner with a pocket book extranho who spoke no Russian, was enormous. All were kind to strangers, but all told there was not room. I thought they were afraid to stay in your home to a stranger, with Pequenho backpack, which also just wanted to spend a night, not one or two weeks as the other vacationers, but the reality is that it was full, and the few sites free were only interested in people who alqpension lvidable Constance - Romania), and a balcony overlooking a minimum courtyard surrounded by barracks.
Communication (or, better isolation)
Vitale was not even a tenth of how difficult it was aware of communication between us. As far as me, if I knew 5 words in Russian and was a lot. To most, he could not read without glasses, who had no other hand. Actually, not having, I had no ashtray. So could not use the dictionary at the end of my phrase book to find words and show me.
- Russia, a country without law - I would repeat many times.
This communication, even excruciating, the possible leaving you I did paper and pen to write the keyword (in Cyrillic, evidentity) that I would look for, crossing their fingers in the mini-dictionary. Almost all the Russian I learned to be.
But it was a very difficult situation, I would say embarrassing. Thankfully, this would end in a few hours, then the next day, early in the manhana would follow my path to the east / southeast.
was about 8 manhana the 2nd of August when we play the turn in the ticket office of Anapa bus station to buy a ticket to Gelendzhik. Vitale talking a bit with the box office, I see a negation (nyet) of the senhora, but eventually get a ticket for 7:30 in the manhana.
- But if you are already the 8!
"But today all the buses in the direction of Tuapse / Sochi are full. The ticket is forneed to come with me. Difficult issue, but finally understands. I look back at 4 pm, when it is 12 noon. 4 hours of freedom!
toured the entire coastline around Anapa, filled to the Russian flag. In a store, given that no foreigner saw none, ask:
- There are not many foreigners around here, no?
- You're the first.
It was not true. Really, could not be first, but the fact that in a photo shop the promenade of Anapa concurridisimo tell me what was the first they saw, says that foreigners are in Anapa, genuine pearls. Anapa, Russia for Russians summer season.
also take the opportunity to stop bythe bus station, to change the ticket and not stop until Tuapse, halfway between Sochi and Gelendzhik. Had time to recover. For this case (that of changing the destination of the ticket) had the inestimable help of some children, visitors, the faraway St. Petersburg (everything is very far in the vast Russian). Back
buy an ashtray to give to Vitale, who gratefully accepted. Vitale returned to talk about something that I would repeat each bit and I could not understand, that if "no passport", "police", "eleven anhos", "34 anhos" ... And finally dawned on me. Vitale was in jail.
is the only thing for sure: the reason is related to a trip or something he did not have the right papers, and it is possible (comCOMMUNICATION extremely poor) to come into prison at 34 and remained there anhos 11. If so would enter into 1989 ... wait ... The wall fell in 1991 ... anhos and maybe spent 11 to 34 came in 1989 when the regime began to relax ... Well, you never know.
After several dialogues impossible came a friend of his, Boba, Russian, Armenian origin, and English potatoes, and ended the day back to the house that between the night before, with the same types of backgammon, then Vitale go for a walk, a senhora (English or potato) and me.
I stay penalty could not find anyone to translate how grateful he was for everything. I had to do, painfully, with my phrase book. I do not want to imagine what it would have ifdo of my stay in Anapa (and throughout the Russian segment) if it had that little book.
End stage.
Anapa, Internet ...
* A Cadillac / limousine huge, white, on the bonnet of which I could lie in postureo plan's dirt cheap, and take a picture for 50 rubles.
* Types of snakes, iguanas, parrots, to wash off the ridiculous picture.
* The worst of the worst (seen several times, to make matters worse): 2 black with fans (one short and paunchy), a throne "African style" in the middle, and the Russian or Russian, shamelessly climbs to be photographed. Ridiculous and, worse, ridicule. Then follow
less crowded streets, with detached houses, one after another (but would not be attached ... ha ha ... what nonsense! (Copyright Martes y Trece)), and repair on the doorappeared many of them repeated the word "Komatsu." Intuition (they're like 16 anhos and travel) that it was related to room / board (maybe helped that "Komatsu" is somewhat like "rooms" in Greek ("domatia")) and check out my phrase book Russian / English ... bingo.
senhoras The surprise of seeing a foreigner with a pocket book extranho who spoke no Russian, was enormous. All were kind to strangers, but all told there was not room. I thought they were afraid to stay in your home to a stranger, with Pequenho backpack, which also just wanted to spend a night, not one or two weeks as the other vacationers, but the reality is that it was full, and the few sites free were only interested in people who alqpension lvidable Constance - Romania), and a balcony overlooking a minimum courtyard surrounded by barracks.
Communication (or, better isolation)
Vitale was not even a tenth of how difficult it was aware of communication between us. As far as me, if I knew 5 words in Russian and was a lot. To most, he could not read without glasses, who had no other hand. Actually, not having, I had no ashtray. So could not use the dictionary at the end of my phrase book to find words and show me.
- Russia, a country without law - I would repeat many times.
This communication, even excruciating, the possible leaving you I did paper and pen to write the keyword (in Cyrillic, evidentity) that I would look for, crossing their fingers in the mini-dictionary. Almost all the Russian I learned to be.
But it was a very difficult situation, I would say embarrassing. Thankfully, this would end in a few hours, then the next day, early in the manhana would follow my path to the east / southeast.
was about 8 manhana the 2nd of August when we play the turn in the ticket office of Anapa bus station to buy a ticket to Gelendzhik. Vitale talking a bit with the box office, I see a negation (nyet) of the senhora, but eventually get a ticket for 7:30 in the manhana.
- But if you are already the 8!
"But today all the buses in the direction of Tuapse / Sochi are full. The ticket is forneed to come with me. Difficult issue, but finally understands. I look back at 4 pm, when it is 12 noon. 4 hours of freedom!
toured the entire coastline around Anapa, filled to the Russian flag. In a store, given that no foreigner saw none, ask:
- There are not many foreigners around here, no?
- You're the first.
It was not true. Really, could not be first, but the fact that in a photo shop the promenade of Anapa concurridisimo tell me what was the first they saw, says that foreigners are in Anapa, genuine pearls. Anapa, Russia for Russians summer season.
also take the opportunity to stop bythe bus station, to change the ticket and not stop until Tuapse, halfway between Sochi and Gelendzhik. Had time to recover. For this case (that of changing the destination of the ticket) had the inestimable help of some children, visitors, the faraway St. Petersburg (everything is very far in the vast Russian). Back
buy an ashtray to give to Vitale, who gratefully accepted. Vitale returned to talk about something that I would repeat each bit and I could not understand, that if "no passport", "police", "eleven anhos", "34 anhos" ... And finally dawned on me. Vitale was in jail.
is the only thing for sure: the reason is related to a trip or something he did not have the right papers, and it is possible (comCOMMUNICATION extremely poor) to come into prison at 34 and remained there anhos 11. If so would enter into 1989 ... wait ... The wall fell in 1991 ... anhos and maybe spent 11 to 34 came in 1989 when the regime began to relax ... Well, you never know.
After several dialogues impossible came a friend of his, Boba, Russian, Armenian origin, and English potatoes, and ended the day back to the house that between the night before, with the same types of backgammon, then Vitale go for a walk, a senhora (English or potato) and me.
I stay penalty could not find anyone to translate how grateful he was for everything. I had to do, painfully, with my phrase book. I do not want to imagine what it would have ifdo of my stay in Anapa (and throughout the Russian segment) if it had that little book.
End stage.
Anapa, Internet ...
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Cervical Position Period For the Aegean
In all these days I can not write. It remains for me to tell the end of the trip (as in Russia, Georgia and Turkey), but I leave it for later, when I find enough time.
Arrive at starting point, ticket office number 130 bus station in Istanbul (a city of some 10 million inhabitants), at 6:19:13 the 11th of August. As my departure was at 14:30:00 on 21 July, from this point and towards the town of Kirklareli (seems to make a anho it!), This means my crazy around the Black Sea took me 20 days , 15 hours, 49 minutes and 13 seconds. Pille
one lives in the neighborhood of Sultanahmet just a few hours sleep, shower and wash clothes (3 euros). At night, at 23:55 take a plane to Bodrum (Halicarnassus in Greek historian Herodotus's hometown), even in Turkey, but only half an hour by boat from the Greek island of Kos. For the manhana, at 11:41, I was in the Marina (Yacht Club) to Kos with Rania and companhia. From there (day 12) until now, sailing through the Aegean Kos, Pserimos, Telendos, Leros, Archangelos, Lipsi, Marathe, Arki, Avaptisti and today Patmos.
no words to describe it. The following are talk:
Sailing a sailboat (about 15m long, which drove us (well. .. they hear only noise ...)), sea, sun kissed skin, clear waters turquoise ideal temperature (or Amaya Braulio ask for more info), fresh fish, octopus, Greek salad, nevera full of everything you want, outside table, airecito, good companhia, at least 100 cd's of all types of music, goggles and fins for diving, dancing, singing, deserted islands, paradise ... In short, words ...
Someone asked that and see if anyone was good news. I hope not to be disappointed.
to the next.
picture get off the internet, Telendos island in the Dodecanese. My photos are much better. Do not I repeat because I do not put mine.
Arrive at starting point, ticket office number 130 bus station in Istanbul (a city of some 10 million inhabitants), at 6:19:13 the 11th of August. As my departure was at 14:30:00 on 21 July, from this point and towards the town of Kirklareli (seems to make a anho it!), This means my crazy around the Black Sea took me 20 days , 15 hours, 49 minutes and 13 seconds. Pille
one lives in the neighborhood of Sultanahmet just a few hours sleep, shower and wash clothes (3 euros). At night, at 23:55 take a plane to Bodrum (Halicarnassus in Greek historian Herodotus's hometown), even in Turkey, but only half an hour by boat from the Greek island of Kos. For the manhana, at 11:41, I was in the Marina (Yacht Club) to Kos with Rania and companhia. From there (day 12) until now, sailing through the Aegean Kos, Pserimos, Telendos, Leros, Archangelos, Lipsi, Marathe, Arki, Avaptisti and today Patmos.
no words to describe it. The following are talk:
Sailing a sailboat (about 15m long, which drove us (well. .. they hear only noise ...)), sea, sun kissed skin, clear waters turquoise ideal temperature (or Amaya Braulio ask for more info), fresh fish, octopus, Greek salad, nevera full of everything you want, outside table, airecito, good companhia, at least 100 cd's of all types of music, goggles and fins for diving, dancing, singing, deserted islands, paradise ... In short, words ...
Someone asked that and see if anyone was good news. I hope not to be disappointed.
to the next.
picture get off the internet, Telendos island in the Dodecanese. My photos are much better. Do not I repeat because I do not put mine.
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
I-catcher Console - Web Monitor .fr 9th stage: Kerch (Ukraine) -> Anapa (Russia), 1 and 2 August
s under a plastic lobby than to greenhouse gases. Outside, a blazing sun. I naturally pass to suffer this torture. I went to one of the 2 kittens that had front and comply, bebiendome a beer, dripping with sweat as the other passengers.
As I say, at 13:26 we went through control. I'm from the past, and not leave until 13:45. That is, to dispatch some 40 passengers, the police need 19 minutes.
The crossing of Krim / Port Kafkaz is the one in the strait between the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea. It takes only about 40 minutes to cross ... if the boat waiting ... and fuel ...
ship arrives at about 14:26. 41 minutes of waiting, so from that pasamos passport control.
Passengers disembark from the Russian side are fast. Once empty, you see a truck with a cistern behind indescribable. She gets into the boat and not leave until 14:40. It turns out that he had to fill the fuel tank for the ferry.
went up and at 14:45 we start Krim port to the Russian side, in Port Kafkaz. I mess with photos of the two seas, the only place where you can take pictures (while waiting for the ship Krim, I began to take pictures and a Ukrainian soldier approached me, slightly annoyed, to tell me that he could not do photos. I apologized, said he was spanish and delete the photos in his presence. This seemed sufficient.)
landed at the Port Kafkaz15:28. Russia has no more and no less than 11 different time zones. The Krasnodar province, which includes all the Russian Black Sea strip, is 3 hours ahead of Greenwich when, so you need to advance the clock 1 hour: it is 16:28. Until 17:12
fail the Russian control, more professional but quite slow, even so.
At 17:21 we finally, to Anapa.
recap: Not counting the time change, this border I get a whopping 3 hours and 53 minutes!
Of these, 1 hour and 18 minutes are the Ukrainian control, 1 hour and 43 minutes waiting to cross narrow boat +, 44 minutes from Russian control and 9-minute gift, courtesy ofdriver. Any higher?
During the journey, so short yet so long, I talk to Ukrainian Crimea student, who studies post-graduate degree in physics (that chance) at the University of Gelendzhik, in the province of Krasnodar, Anapa below, and also in the coast. Also he says that they hate the president Yushsenko Crimea.
The journey from Port Kafkaz to Anapa, about 150 km and an hour and a half or so, starting along the eastern margin of the Sea of Azov and then veer north bank / northeastern Black Sea. Passes through several lakes, so I said Anton (the student) are salt water. Between lake and lake plains, fields of sunflowers, cereals ... That Russia is huge! The greatest country in the world, 11 time zones, 150 million lives
As I say, at 13:26 we went through control. I'm from the past, and not leave until 13:45. That is, to dispatch some 40 passengers, the police need 19 minutes.
The crossing of Krim / Port Kafkaz is the one in the strait between the Sea of Azov from the Black Sea. It takes only about 40 minutes to cross ... if the boat waiting ... and fuel ...
ship arrives at about 14:26. 41 minutes of waiting, so from that pasamos passport control.
Passengers disembark from the Russian side are fast. Once empty, you see a truck with a cistern behind indescribable. She gets into the boat and not leave until 14:40. It turns out that he had to fill the fuel tank for the ferry.
went up and at 14:45 we start Krim port to the Russian side, in Port Kafkaz. I mess with photos of the two seas, the only place where you can take pictures (while waiting for the ship Krim, I began to take pictures and a Ukrainian soldier approached me, slightly annoyed, to tell me that he could not do photos. I apologized, said he was spanish and delete the photos in his presence. This seemed sufficient.)
landed at the Port Kafkaz15:28. Russia has no more and no less than 11 different time zones. The Krasnodar province, which includes all the Russian Black Sea strip, is 3 hours ahead of Greenwich when, so you need to advance the clock 1 hour: it is 16:28. Until 17:12
fail the Russian control, more professional but quite slow, even so.
At 17:21 we finally, to Anapa.
recap: Not counting the time change, this border I get a whopping 3 hours and 53 minutes!
Of these, 1 hour and 18 minutes are the Ukrainian control, 1 hour and 43 minutes waiting to cross narrow boat +, 44 minutes from Russian control and 9-minute gift, courtesy ofdriver. Any higher?
During the journey, so short yet so long, I talk to Ukrainian Crimea student, who studies post-graduate degree in physics (that chance) at the University of Gelendzhik, in the province of Krasnodar, Anapa below, and also in the coast. Also he says that they hate the president Yushsenko Crimea.
The journey from Port Kafkaz to Anapa, about 150 km and an hour and a half or so, starting along the eastern margin of the Sea of Azov and then veer north bank / northeastern Black Sea. Passes through several lakes, so I said Anton (the student) are salt water. Between lake and lake plains, fields of sunflowers, cereals ... That Russia is huge! The greatest country in the world, 11 time zones, 150 million lives
Monday, August 7, 2006
Mcculloch -pitts Model
The 8th stage: Balaclava / Sevastopol (Ukraine) -> Kerch (Ukraine), 30 and July 31 to avoid tiring
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wanted to make the most of the day (July 30) and got it.
By manhana Sebastopol. Not bad, but nothing compared to Odessa.
was Sunday and the Russian Navy Day. The streets, parks and promenades were full of Russians, with their flags and all (some nostalgic flying another flag with the hammer and sickle). So there was a concert of Russian music, traditional and modern, in a square next to the sea.
Apparently, Crimea was once part of Russia, and must have a very strong Russian minority. This is probably the reason why a majority of residents of this autonomous republic are in opposition to Ukrainian President Yushchenko, pro-European.
Afternoon boat from the port of Balaclava to beaches. Clear water and ideal temperature. People do free camping wherever and whenever you want, but are real piggy: leave all the garbage strewn beach and mountains, where they block shit. A pity, because the environment does not deserve. Monteferro reminded me when I was Pequenho.
July 31.
or so I get up early. Minibus + Trolley Bus Station Balaclava to Sevastopol. My destiny is to Kerch, the greatest city in eastern Crimea, where he will cross, the next day, the Russian border.
Well, the next bus to plaza does not leave until 12:10 pmna table outside, just in front of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, staring at me as if to say: "Damn capitalism. livechat Someday volverremos to the rrevolusion. I'll take your car!"
Rest of Travel: Bus to Kerch, which came from the coast at the height of Alushta. Followed into the interior, Simferopol and then turned east, via Feodosia. During the journey to speak with a Russian little girl returning from his holidays with his family, and complained how hard it had been made to travel by the former Soviet Union countries. Among other things he told me that in Crimea there is great discontent among the Russian minority, you have to learn Ukrainian in a land that time was Russian, and cases of corruption at the border. They, for example, made them pay 50 dollarsbecause your cat did not have the right papers. Anyway. Reach
Kerch at about 10:30 pm. I approached a taxi driver and told him I wanted a cheap hotel. In 5 minutes I was, again, in receiving one of these monstrosities built by the communists consecutive passages, rooms without Xeito none. The receptionist, who only spoke with a taxi driver, would not register. For what seemed to understand me, I was afraid if the Ukrainian visa, whether he had to register it, etc. Is not yet found out that Ukraine does not need visas for most nationalities. In short, when finally agreed, and left me there to sleep. Manhana ... Russia!
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wanted to make the most of the day (July 30) and got it.
By manhana Sebastopol. Not bad, but nothing compared to Odessa.
was Sunday and the Russian Navy Day. The streets, parks and promenades were full of Russians, with their flags and all (some nostalgic flying another flag with the hammer and sickle). So there was a concert of Russian music, traditional and modern, in a square next to the sea.
Apparently, Crimea was once part of Russia, and must have a very strong Russian minority. This is probably the reason why a majority of residents of this autonomous republic are in opposition to Ukrainian President Yushchenko, pro-European.
Afternoon boat from the port of Balaclava to beaches. Clear water and ideal temperature. People do free camping wherever and whenever you want, but are real piggy: leave all the garbage strewn beach and mountains, where they block shit. A pity, because the environment does not deserve. Monteferro reminded me when I was Pequenho.
July 31.
or so I get up early. Minibus + Trolley Bus Station Balaclava to Sevastopol. My destiny is to Kerch, the greatest city in eastern Crimea, where he will cross, the next day, the Russian border.
Well, the next bus to plaza does not leave until 12:10 pmna table outside, just in front of Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, staring at me as if to say: "Damn capitalism. livechat Someday volverremos to the rrevolusion. I'll take your car!"
Rest of Travel: Bus to Kerch, which came from the coast at the height of Alushta. Followed into the interior, Simferopol and then turned east, via Feodosia. During the journey to speak with a Russian little girl returning from his holidays with his family, and complained how hard it had been made to travel by the former Soviet Union countries. Among other things he told me that in Crimea there is great discontent among the Russian minority, you have to learn Ukrainian in a land that time was Russian, and cases of corruption at the border. They, for example, made them pay 50 dollarsbecause your cat did not have the right papers. Anyway. Reach
Kerch at about 10:30 pm. I approached a taxi driver and told him I wanted a cheap hotel. In 5 minutes I was, again, in receiving one of these monstrosities built by the communists consecutive passages, rooms without Xeito none. The receptionist, who only spoke with a taxi driver, would not register. For what seemed to understand me, I was afraid if the Ukrainian visa, whether he had to register it, etc. Is not yet found out that Ukraine does not need visas for most nationalities. In short, when finally agreed, and left me there to sleep. Manhana ... Russia!
Sunday, August 6, 2006
Milena Velba Exercise
All these days were very intense, with long hours of bus, one after another, so I had no time or desire to write. So break the script and try to summarize, in batches, the last five stages: the 7th stage
: Odessa (Ukraine) -> Balaclava / Sevastopol (Ukraine), 27, 28, 29 and July 30, 2006
the 8th stage: Balaclava / Sevastopol (Ukraine) -> Kerch (Ukraine), 30 and July 31
the 9th stage: Kerch (Ukraine) -> Anapa (Russia), 1 and 2 August
10th stage: Anapa (Russia ) -> Sochi (Russia), August 3
11th stage: Sochi (Russia) -> Border Russia / Georgia -> Sochi (Russia)
the 7th stage: Odessa (Ukraine) -> Balaclava / Sebastopol ( Ukraine), 27, 28, 29 and July 30io 2006
The May 27, 1794, the Russian tsars Caterina ordered the fortification and construction of a port in the Bay of Khadsibey. Anho Only later, in 1795, and had a new city under construction. The city was named Odessa.
Odessa
development has much in common with that of St. Petersburg. If the latter was conceived as
While the window to Europe can be a bit exaggerated, it may well be considered a window to Europe, so I have seen so far, the most esplendor and majestic window on Europe from the Black Sea.
Arrive at 6 manhana Thursday July 27 at the inhospitable (at least at that time) Odessa bus station. Caught a taxi for about 3 times the actual price (just wanted to take me out of there already) to a youth hostel in the heart of the city. Sleep, although they were only 3 hours.
Hostel Odessa (Black Sea Backpackers - 12 Deribasovskaya) is the only city, and it was there where I saw the last foreigners ("alien" excludes Ukrainians, Russians and Caucasians) so far (so, therefore, 8 days already). It was Thursday, and around 10 I woke up, I had to see what the Russian visa. If I tell you the truth, there was not a 5% chancedes to get it before the weekend, but had to try. Ilsa was
Latvian (the first person I know of that Baltic country, Soviet Socialist Republic, and now part of European Union
- Hmmm ... Today is Thursday, and only open Monday through Wednesday and Friday. So we have to wait manhana ...
I said 5%? Now did not give even a 1% per visa.
Spend the day around the city. And which cityres luxurious, but with the most affordable prices: 4-5 EUR plate.
The next day, Friday, July 28th, I woke up early. The consulate opened at 9 manhana, and would not be late, because the Russian embassies have a terrible reputation, fame, and I saw that the consulate in Istanbul with, and confirm again in Odessa.
I go into the consulate and I find a yard full of penha, many sitting in the sun, others senhoras more, crowding in the doorway, one arm across the threshold of the same, so no one slinks. And all the while arguing, in Russian, God knows.
And I, gullible, only overseas, not knowing which system is used there. After half hour, I began to suspect that the system could
Friday, July 28, 2006
Sample Kid Welcome Letter Wedding
XC held my breath. We had a post Moldovan and bus and had to stop. Nobody. And no not at 10 km. We entered Ukraine. Another soldier, same scene. From there, only Ukraine, just vast plains to Odessa.
The Odessa and what if you gave this wonderful city, in the next chapter.
(No photos for now)
The Odessa and what if you gave this wonderful city, in the next chapter.
(No photos for now)
Blackhawk Mobile Crane Fifth stage: Galati (Romania) -> Cahul (Moldova), July 25, 2006
to which I had understood him to perfection]
There I was, under the scanty shade of a tree I got to wait.
The only stone seating was occupied by a guy who did not seem gordecho be eager to talk, so do not even try.
From there half an hour, approached the first car, and gordecho began talking with the driver, who did not take long to ask, pointing to me, if I went with him. Staged there between me, my italocatalan than to wonder.
Poor creature. Go, go boy! First
last obstacle. Now is the incongnita Moldova.
Moldova capital Chisinau. 1 euro = 16.75
Moldovan lei
Moldova is a former Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the 15 former socialist republicsotherwise), to see a spanish passport for those dollars (few borders so quiet that I saw). After a while, come to me and points to an office. The consulate, of course. There was
and an official, the more, kind, who did not speak a word of English (as nobody else there), I pass a form to fill out with a photo included.
- transit to Ukraine? We give 2 days (ie, could spend the night in Moldova and the next day and make sure he could be out of the country), and now go to the bank and pay 30 dollars.
Another officer who issues a document certifying the payment of the fee, in triplicate, and that I had to sign one by one.
- Okay. Here's your visa. Ah! Just one more thing. Before the first of January 2007 will not be able to return to Moldova.
Fantastico: I get 2 days (24 hours, de facto), and up and coming anho sonhos to return!
In 2 minutes, a Romanian, Moldovan and espanhol two entered the quiet town of Cahul Moldova.
Cahul is a clear example of Soviet planning. Big square square, imposing Soviet-style building, and wide streets, trees, forming more or less equal squares. Parks, gardens ...
Even so, life seemed more pleasant than in neighboring Romania. It was axfisiante. Instead it seemed as if gradual progress, quiet. People seemed happy.
Find a nice pension at the end of one of those streets, and spend the rest of the day for a walk, observe, and drinking beer in the den, in the park, in that house
There I was, under the scanty shade of a tree I got to wait.
The only stone seating was occupied by a guy who did not seem gordecho be eager to talk, so do not even try.
From there half an hour, approached the first car, and gordecho began talking with the driver, who did not take long to ask, pointing to me, if I went with him. Staged there between me, my italocatalan than to wonder.
Poor creature. Go, go boy! First
last obstacle. Now is the incongnita Moldova.
Moldova capital Chisinau. 1 euro = 16.75
Moldovan lei
Moldova is a former Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the 15 former socialist republicsotherwise), to see a spanish passport for those dollars (few borders so quiet that I saw). After a while, come to me and points to an office. The consulate, of course. There was
and an official, the more, kind, who did not speak a word of English (as nobody else there), I pass a form to fill out with a photo included.
- transit to Ukraine? We give 2 days (ie, could spend the night in Moldova and the next day and make sure he could be out of the country), and now go to the bank and pay 30 dollars.
Another officer who issues a document certifying the payment of the fee, in triplicate, and that I had to sign one by one.
- Okay. Here's your visa. Ah! Just one more thing. Before the first of January 2007 will not be able to return to Moldova.
Fantastico: I get 2 days (24 hours, de facto), and up and coming anho sonhos to return!
In 2 minutes, a Romanian, Moldovan and espanhol two entered the quiet town of Cahul Moldova.
Cahul is a clear example of Soviet planning. Big square square, imposing Soviet-style building, and wide streets, trees, forming more or less equal squares. Parks, gardens ...
Even so, life seemed more pleasant than in neighboring Romania. It was axfisiante. Instead it seemed as if gradual progress, quiet. People seemed happy.
Find a nice pension at the end of one of those streets, and spend the rest of the day for a walk, observe, and drinking beer in the den, in the park, in that house
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Wedding Thank You Poems Fourth stage: Constanza (Romania) -> Galati (Romania), July 24, 2006
Fourth stage: Constanza (Romania) -> Galati (Romania), July 24, 2006
there something fundamental when traveling, all those sites will have to give them a chance, and not rush with a negative verdict before sufficiently explored. Forget this basic precept, but rectified in time. The
manhana Monday July 24 I woke up early (well, about 9) and I went for a walk in an area that had intrigued me last night, before returning to the cave in which slept (I will discuss the below). Romania is a country not particularly safe to walk alone at night by an impoverished city of a country (sadly) depleted. Not for nothing is the country of these immigrants coming shacks mounted on aoutside the major capital campaigns here and in every corner. All this must be said with caution, because the vast majority are honest people who come to our country to work very hard at jobs that do not want and would never accept wage, and everything to improve their lives: it's that simple. But as always, the minority gives a bad name.
For that, the next day pull on the street leading to a tip from the industrial port and beaches, and I found a beautiful casino early last century and a landscaped walkway from there at the beginning of the beach. Back, not far from there, there were archaeological remains (I think of a basilica) in the first centuries of our era. Also, and about where to spend the night, was the Museum Arquàeologico and History of the City, which is quite interesting, and affordable (with affordable I mean that is not tiring. There are museums like the Prado, the British Museum or the Louvre, which can be as interesting as you want, but overwhelmed by its tamanho: tired). Where
slept?
I spend all day 23 on his back with my backpack, and only at about 9 pm or so I decided to find a place to sleep. Enter a small hotel seemed tacky enough to attract my attention and ask.
- We have no rooms available until late September.
- For one person, one night, no comfort, anything?
- Umm ... where are you?
- I'm spanish. I step in Constanza and head to Tulcea to cross the border there Ukranienia. I'm circling the Black Sea (it's failed in 20 days for not inconvenienced. In these situations, the less nerd better).
- Well, maybe if it's for one night, I can get an apartment, but will cost you about 70 lei (20 euros).
- Vale.
nothing appeared in a larger Senhor, which led me to a house he had in front of it. It was an apartment, was his home (and that of his wife).
the "impression" that I caused the "apartment" was enough to forget to haggle or complain about the price.
The apartment was only part of what was a house (rather senhorial), which was divided, almost certainly, during the communist regime. Result?
You enter a communal hallway with two dogs but bully Pequenhothe impoverished and overcrowded public transport Romanian (you had to see the trams and regional trains)) and from there a bit was in another minibus to Tulcea. It seems that in Romania there are almost no buses. All I saw out of the bus were minibuses, vans of 15-18 seats.
And, as logic is all that story, the seats are very well used. Those who caught wheel (I always play wheel) virtually no place to leave your feet, left knee almost touching the chest. The journey to Tulcea
was 125 km to the minibusero made in 1 hour and 45 minutes, including 15 minutes of rest, multiple stops to drop off / pick up people, and the usual stop at the beginning of the trip (if travelers are dying of heat which is oropposite bank. Even had to catch a ferry, which took its time to leave. While, kill the time watching as two guys in a little boat, fished in a fairly original: releasing move and wide network and collecting, so again and again, on the shore, in order to catch fish.
Galati?
More of the same. I was very tired, so stopped a taxi and told the driver to take me to a cheap hotel.
The driver was a young boy, an orphan of father and mother, and worked for a companhia followed taxi (the taxi was not his). He said he slept 4-5 hours every day in order to get enough for a anho of these go to Italy to work (wanted to go this anho, but did not have enough). His concept of Ruers that I saw while waiting for the ferry. Internet, as always.
there something fundamental when traveling, all those sites will have to give them a chance, and not rush with a negative verdict before sufficiently explored. Forget this basic precept, but rectified in time. The
manhana Monday July 24 I woke up early (well, about 9) and I went for a walk in an area that had intrigued me last night, before returning to the cave in which slept (I will discuss the below). Romania is a country not particularly safe to walk alone at night by an impoverished city of a country (sadly) depleted. Not for nothing is the country of these immigrants coming shacks mounted on aoutside the major capital campaigns here and in every corner. All this must be said with caution, because the vast majority are honest people who come to our country to work very hard at jobs that do not want and would never accept wage, and everything to improve their lives: it's that simple. But as always, the minority gives a bad name.
For that, the next day pull on the street leading to a tip from the industrial port and beaches, and I found a beautiful casino early last century and a landscaped walkway from there at the beginning of the beach. Back, not far from there, there were archaeological remains (I think of a basilica) in the first centuries of our era. Also, and about where to spend the night, was the Museum Arquàeologico and History of the City, which is quite interesting, and affordable (with affordable I mean that is not tiring. There are museums like the Prado, the British Museum or the Louvre, which can be as interesting as you want, but overwhelmed by its tamanho: tired). Where
slept?
I spend all day 23 on his back with my backpack, and only at about 9 pm or so I decided to find a place to sleep. Enter a small hotel seemed tacky enough to attract my attention and ask.
- We have no rooms available until late September.
- For one person, one night, no comfort, anything?
- Umm ... where are you?
- I'm spanish. I step in Constanza and head to Tulcea to cross the border there Ukranienia. I'm circling the Black Sea (it's failed in 20 days for not inconvenienced. In these situations, the less nerd better).
- Well, maybe if it's for one night, I can get an apartment, but will cost you about 70 lei (20 euros).
- Vale.
nothing appeared in a larger Senhor, which led me to a house he had in front of it. It was an apartment, was his home (and that of his wife).
the "impression" that I caused the "apartment" was enough to forget to haggle or complain about the price.
The apartment was only part of what was a house (rather senhorial), which was divided, almost certainly, during the communist regime. Result?
You enter a communal hallway with two dogs but bully Pequenhothe impoverished and overcrowded public transport Romanian (you had to see the trams and regional trains)) and from there a bit was in another minibus to Tulcea. It seems that in Romania there are almost no buses. All I saw out of the bus were minibuses, vans of 15-18 seats.
And, as logic is all that story, the seats are very well used. Those who caught wheel (I always play wheel) virtually no place to leave your feet, left knee almost touching the chest. The journey to Tulcea
was 125 km to the minibusero made in 1 hour and 45 minutes, including 15 minutes of rest, multiple stops to drop off / pick up people, and the usual stop at the beginning of the trip (if travelers are dying of heat which is oropposite bank. Even had to catch a ferry, which took its time to leave. While, kill the time watching as two guys in a little boat, fished in a fairly original: releasing move and wide network and collecting, so again and again, on the shore, in order to catch fish.
Galati?
More of the same. I was very tired, so stopped a taxi and told the driver to take me to a cheap hotel.
The driver was a young boy, an orphan of father and mother, and worked for a companhia followed taxi (the taxi was not his). He said he slept 4-5 hours every day in order to get enough for a anho of these go to Italy to work (wanted to go this anho, but did not have enough). His concept of Ruers that I saw while waiting for the ferry. Internet, as always.
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Gland Swelling More Condition_symptoms Third stage: Varna (Bulgaria) -> Constanza (Romania), July 23, 2006
asos? Minibuses and pray at various stages. Reach
bus station on foot, about 10 in the manhana, and at 11, after some misunderstanding which resolved happily, was in a minibus to Shaba. Here, the landscape over the lush forests that ended in the Black Sea (always on my right hand) to Este fields, sunflower, corn, wheat ..., dotted here and there by some line of forest.
The few people who were stabbed more and more rural, more humble, more rooted in their communist past. Shaba, for example, was full of buildings from the socialist era, horrific as all of that time.
arrived about 12:30, and in a nondescript bus station (takes a bit of a sports pavilion, pathetic, alsoI do the nagging question in the wrong moment:
- Hey, do you know if is possible to cross the border between Romania and Ukraine in Tulcea?
- Well, do not know, but now that I think, I could have asked the border police. They sure know it.
Idiot! As I did not think before? I would do otherwise?
Good bye, sweet hart! You'll be in my dreams for long!
The good news is that, back to the crossing, the police told me that if he had cross-border in Tulcea.
If not mistaken, this means that I have to go through Moldova, and I can get to Odessa (Ukraine) in 2 days, which would give me time to see all the possibilities calmly crossing the Russian segment difficult. Is in the airn this crazy trip (me and my nephew banh 2 anhos ago, back to Istanbul, when the Olympic Games)).
Manhana to Tulcea, in the great delta of the great Danube. We'll see how this thing after it suffered heavy flooding this anho (or the past, I can not remember ...). The truth is that I like it this mini tour, complicated a priori, without any information or guidance of any kind, just a map! And in 20 days!
That gorgeous and sweet as was the Romanian ... Bucharest said it was ...
Constanza - Romania (photo taken from the Internet, as usual ...)
bus station on foot, about 10 in the manhana, and at 11, after some misunderstanding which resolved happily, was in a minibus to Shaba. Here, the landscape over the lush forests that ended in the Black Sea (always on my right hand) to Este fields, sunflower, corn, wheat ..., dotted here and there by some line of forest.
The few people who were stabbed more and more rural, more humble, more rooted in their communist past. Shaba, for example, was full of buildings from the socialist era, horrific as all of that time.
arrived about 12:30, and in a nondescript bus station (takes a bit of a sports pavilion, pathetic, alsoI do the nagging question in the wrong moment:
- Hey, do you know if is possible to cross the border between Romania and Ukraine in Tulcea?
- Well, do not know, but now that I think, I could have asked the border police. They sure know it.
Idiot! As I did not think before? I would do otherwise?
Good bye, sweet hart! You'll be in my dreams for long!
The good news is that, back to the crossing, the police told me that if he had cross-border in Tulcea.
If not mistaken, this means that I have to go through Moldova, and I can get to Odessa (Ukraine) in 2 days, which would give me time to see all the possibilities calmly crossing the Russian segment difficult. Is in the airn this crazy trip (me and my nephew banh 2 anhos ago, back to Istanbul, when the Olympic Games)).
Manhana to Tulcea, in the great delta of the great Danube. We'll see how this thing after it suffered heavy flooding this anho (or the past, I can not remember ...). The truth is that I like it this mini tour, complicated a priori, without any information or guidance of any kind, just a map! And in 20 days!
That gorgeous and sweet as was the Romanian ... Bucharest said it was ...
Constanza - Romania (photo taken from the Internet, as usual ...)
Saturday, July 22, 2006
What Is The Strongest Small Car Subwoffer
ingles?
Si ... And how do you know?
I attach for your passport ... besides, the bus conductor told me that there was another spanish on the bus ...
And you where are you?
Gallego.
(flip)
I find a guy of Villagarcia an uncrowded border between Turkey and Bulgaria, who comes from a erasmus (has 23 anhos) 9 months in Slovenia, which is touring the Balkans and around before returning to Galicia. As we were both at or near Burgas, we agreed to go together to share hotel to save. He had been given information on a village north of Burgas, Nessebar, which turned out to be a poop: Great beach hiperturistica, with people such Santillana del Mar. But yeah, it is Bulgaria, and the big surprise for the two were .. .
... Bulgarians.
seeing: this is my country number 36 (not counting Luxembourg, because only stop at a gas station, or Switzerland, as the sleeping train crossing, and the United Arab Emirates, because I threw at the airport (I was deported back to Africa!), nor Russia, with only passing through airport). This is my country number 36, say, and not if the country in which higher levels of gals saw so far.
BUL-GA-RAS
note Leaving drinks, and even flipped over to the level of women in the clubs. One evening, I assure you. Easy, 80% are between good and Exxxtreme good. Ahi
Completes First Stage Second Stage
: Nessebar (Bulgaria) -> Varna (Bulgaria)
quiet stage. Caught a bus at about 12 and Iday of the manhana, after strolling through the old town of Nessebar, Varna and reach some 100 km to the north, about two hours later.
Varna is a city of about 400000 inhabitants, with a commercial port, and a crowded beach and wide fully integrated with the city. Has an elegant center with broad streets and walkways, lively, and many parks, lush and peaceful. It is a good city to relax, and very cheap: I sleep in a hostel for 10 euros, and at midday ate 3 dishes + large beers for only 4 euros 40 in a chic terrace in a pedestrian street, central, with a come and go bollazos who cut the digestion. A bargain.
manhana What's for?
Buf, things can get quite complicated.
The first is easy: Crossborder to the coastal city of Constanta, Romania. Since there is an unknown quantity. If you consult a map, you will see that Romania is bordered by Ukraine on the Black Sea, which would be the next country Ukraine. It seems easy, right?
It turns out that this border is in the Danube delta, and it seems that there is no crossing. That either help
A border tensions between the two countries because some construction work carried out by the Ukrainian government and which was denounced by the Romanians as a territorial invasion.
To make matters worse, are the serious flooding by the overflowing Danube, which may have left many roads impassable in the area.
In contrast, the border seems to work if there is
Si ... And how do you know?
I attach for your passport ... besides, the bus conductor told me that there was another spanish on the bus ...
And you where are you?
Gallego.
(flip)
I find a guy of Villagarcia an uncrowded border between Turkey and Bulgaria, who comes from a erasmus (has 23 anhos) 9 months in Slovenia, which is touring the Balkans and around before returning to Galicia. As we were both at or near Burgas, we agreed to go together to share hotel to save. He had been given information on a village north of Burgas, Nessebar, which turned out to be a poop: Great beach hiperturistica, with people such Santillana del Mar. But yeah, it is Bulgaria, and the big surprise for the two were .. .
... Bulgarians.
seeing: this is my country number 36 (not counting Luxembourg, because only stop at a gas station, or Switzerland, as the sleeping train crossing, and the United Arab Emirates, because I threw at the airport (I was deported back to Africa!), nor Russia, with only passing through airport). This is my country number 36, say, and not if the country in which higher levels of gals saw so far.
BUL-GA-RAS
note Leaving drinks, and even flipped over to the level of women in the clubs. One evening, I assure you. Easy, 80% are between good and Exxxtreme good. Ahi
Completes First Stage Second Stage
: Nessebar (Bulgaria) -> Varna (Bulgaria)
quiet stage. Caught a bus at about 12 and Iday of the manhana, after strolling through the old town of Nessebar, Varna and reach some 100 km to the north, about two hours later.
Varna is a city of about 400000 inhabitants, with a commercial port, and a crowded beach and wide fully integrated with the city. Has an elegant center with broad streets and walkways, lively, and many parks, lush and peaceful. It is a good city to relax, and very cheap: I sleep in a hostel for 10 euros, and at midday ate 3 dishes + large beers for only 4 euros 40 in a chic terrace in a pedestrian street, central, with a come and go bollazos who cut the digestion. A bargain.
manhana What's for?
Buf, things can get quite complicated.
The first is easy: Crossborder to the coastal city of Constanta, Romania. Since there is an unknown quantity. If you consult a map, you will see that Romania is bordered by Ukraine on the Black Sea, which would be the next country Ukraine. It seems easy, right?
It turns out that this border is in the Danube delta, and it seems that there is no crossing. That either help
A border tensions between the two countries because some construction work carried out by the Ukrainian government and which was denounced by the Romanians as a territorial invasion.
To make matters worse, are the serious flooding by the overflowing Danube, which may have left many roads impassable in the area.
In contrast, the border seems to work if there is
Friday, July 21, 2006
Sample Welcome Letter, Wedding
na as outlandish as exciting idea: turn the Black Sea, and in only 20 days (to navigate a sailing vessel with Rania and Companhia from August 12 )!!!!! Pille
a Turkish Airlines plane with 212 euros (expensive, but I will get 1 hour before departure?), And here I am. I have spent the manhana
gathering info at the Russian consulate (the Russian side will be the most complicated), and now I'm going to the border with Bulgaria: Dare turned in the direction of the clockwise (Turkish -> Bulgaria -> Romania -> Ukraine -> Russia (which I take confessed god) -> Georgia (all Greek gods take me confessed) -> Turkey.
As I said: This anho played risk.
First stage:
a Turkish Airlines plane with 212 euros (expensive, but I will get 1 hour before departure?), And here I am. I have spent the manhana
gathering info at the Russian consulate (the Russian side will be the most complicated), and now I'm going to the border with Bulgaria: Dare turned in the direction of the clockwise (Turkish -> Bulgaria -> Romania -> Ukraine -> Russia (which I take confessed god) -> Georgia (all Greek gods take me confessed) -> Turkey.
As I said: This anho played risk.
First stage:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Mount And Blade Western
Braulio and Amaya went (with Pequenho push me) to Istanbul. There are from yesterday (this time down in the subway said goodbye - a farewell far more original.)
I still do not know! But increasingly tended more ideas:
1) From mouth of the Amazon to Venezuela by land, crossing the French Guyana, Surinam and British Guyana (now independent Guyana plain)
2) Pull in Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine Armenia, Azerbaijan, and I know that more ...
3) Airfare to Cairo, crossing the Sudan, to revisit after 12 anhos Africa (Ethiopia?)
4) Albania, Macedonia, and again on August 12 to sail with Rania and friends in the Aegean on a boat Sailing?
5) Thailand -> Malaysia -> Brunei - &, Gt, Indonesia -> Singapore -> Papua New Guinea ...
6) go to the airport and catch the first thing I can think of. I always wanted to do, but I never decided. Imagine what is seen on a plane to a remote country when they had decided to only 2 hours before! (Only problem: many countries require an entry visa prior)
7) Any idea more?
8) How do so, I will keep thinking about all summer ... of what might have been but was not ... Damn Jews! With it clear that Lebanon had it ...!!!
In memory of Lebanese civilians killed by the Israeli terrorist army.
I still do not know! But increasingly tended more ideas:
1) From mouth of the Amazon to Venezuela by land, crossing the French Guyana, Surinam and British Guyana (now independent Guyana plain)
2) Pull in Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine Armenia, Azerbaijan, and I know that more ...
3) Airfare to Cairo, crossing the Sudan, to revisit after 12 anhos Africa (Ethiopia?)
4) Albania, Macedonia, and again on August 12 to sail with Rania and friends in the Aegean on a boat Sailing?
5) Thailand -> Malaysia -> Brunei - &, Gt, Indonesia -> Singapore -> Papua New Guinea ...
6) go to the airport and catch the first thing I can think of. I always wanted to do, but I never decided. Imagine what is seen on a plane to a remote country when they had decided to only 2 hours before! (Only problem: many countries require an entry visa prior)
7) Any idea more?
8) How do so, I will keep thinking about all summer ... of what might have been but was not ... Damn Jews! With it clear that Lebanon had it ...!!!
In memory of Lebanese civilians killed by the Israeli terrorist army.
Monday, July 17, 2006
Funny Congratulation Messages Baby Greece
World Cup Final: Italy deserved, Zidane a complete moron. Lunch and dinner
galore (Greek food, a delight)
the Blues Brothers concert at the Herod Atticus theater at the foot of the acropoli, with the Parthenon lit, hen and Amayita Espanha, who went to the island Milos: should be coming right now, with a delay of more than 5 hours. It turns out that Milos had to leave at 2 am (1 in Galicia), but the ship was passed earlier by Lebanon to pick up refugees! Braulio's message states: "Although we ahora.el ship was to Lebanon in support human.ahora going in a big fabela"
By the way, speaking of Lebanon: It is only 2 days before the bombing began, had already clear my first step: catching a barco to Rhodes, from there another to Cyprus, and Cyprus to Lebanon. In Beirut would decide (probably Pakistan). It is the second time it happens. On my trip to the Middle East / Africa (back in 1993 ... my god anho! As time passes!) Also wanted to go to Lebanon, but would not let me. Of that had safety problems at the border with Syria (Druze militias ...). So it seems, every time I plan to go to Lebanon is a good weapon.
So this blog lives up to my trip more questions: Where will this summer Rafa? Clarificaroslo clarified and I will try, but right now I have no idea.
lightning trip to Thessaloniki (1 night) and Halkidiki (other), with the sweet Rania ... and 4 more friends (also 4 friends, sympathetic), who joined the free camping on a beach soli
galore (Greek food, a delight)
the Blues Brothers concert at the Herod Atticus theater at the foot of the acropoli, with the Parthenon lit, hen and Amayita Espanha, who went to the island Milos: should be coming right now, with a delay of more than 5 hours. It turns out that Milos had to leave at 2 am (1 in Galicia), but the ship was passed earlier by Lebanon to pick up refugees! Braulio's message states: "Although we ahora.el ship was to Lebanon in support human.ahora going in a big fabela"
By the way, speaking of Lebanon: It is only 2 days before the bombing began, had already clear my first step: catching a barco to Rhodes, from there another to Cyprus, and Cyprus to Lebanon. In Beirut would decide (probably Pakistan). It is the second time it happens. On my trip to the Middle East / Africa (back in 1993 ... my god anho! As time passes!) Also wanted to go to Lebanon, but would not let me. Of that had safety problems at the border with Syria (Druze militias ...). So it seems, every time I plan to go to Lebanon is a good weapon.
So this blog lives up to my trip more questions: Where will this summer Rafa? Clarificaroslo clarified and I will try, but right now I have no idea.
lightning trip to Thessaloniki (1 night) and Halkidiki (other), with the sweet Rania ... and 4 more friends (also 4 friends, sympathetic), who joined the free camping on a beach soli
Friday, July 7, 2006
Stomach Issues And More Condition_symptoms
I will travel, no matter where,
provided is out of this world.
Baudelaire.
(Around Laronga, Tibetan area of the province of Si Chuan, PR China, August 2005)
provided is out of this world.
Baudelaire.
(Around Laronga, Tibetan area of the province of Si Chuan, PR China, August 2005)
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