Kotor, Montenegro, Europe Well this has been the longest day of travel I can remember on this trip, but I am currently writing this blog at 7:34am as I have just reached my destination. Yesterday started out with leaving my things at Pansion Bianco and going for breakfast at the Hotel Anja restaurant again. It was raining again so there was no chance for me to go up the cable car to the big cross on the mountain. It was…
Skopje, Macedonia, Europe I had a really nice day in Skopje. It was raining first thing this morning, but I didn’t let that deter me. I left Pansion Bianco and went to their sister hotel in the city center to have breakfast. It was probably the most complete breakfast I’ve had in a month. It was a cheese omelet (with cheddar and feta), bread, salad, and juice. I decided to first explore the Turkish part of the city and just…
Skopje, Macedonia, Europe Today got off to a poor start, but ended up being pretty nice. I didn’t get a great night sleep at the hostel and woke up around 6:30am. I downloaded UFC 172 that was on last night and got to watch Jon Jones defend his light heavyweight title again. I wanted to check out of the hostel so I could leave my bags and go walk around the city a little bit, but by 9:30am there were…
Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe Today was a very nice day in Sofia, helped by two very nice Dutch ladies. I started out by packing up my stuff and getting the heck out of Guest Rooms Kom. It was not a very nice place to stay, and I found a proper hostel for tonight, so I moved down there. I had arranged to meet up with Jacquelien and her mom Dineke after dropping my stuff off at the hostel. I got to…
Sofia, Bulgaria, Europe I got up this morning and went out to explore Thessaloniki for a few hours. I found out that there were two buses from Thessaloniki up to Sofia, and I’d be better off getting the early one. So I walked around the city for a few hours, checked out the Byzantine Museum and the statue of Alexander the Great, and then made my way to the bus terminal. I got my ticket for the 2:30pm bus to…
Thessaloniki, Greece, Europe I got up today and got all my stuff ready to move on from Meteora. As much as I loved it there, I have to get a move on and head north. I had breakfast at the hotel and then got a bus over to Trikala. I had to wait there for about a half hour and then get another bus to Thessaloniki. It was a full bus and I had an assigned seat in the worst…
Kalambaka, Greece, Europe Today was an absolutely brilliant day! It was just one of those days where everything seemed to go right. I like those days. It started out with a 7:30am wake up call, breakfast at 8am with Sheila and Rob downstairs at the hotel, and then a bus from Kalambaka up to Meteora. The bus was scheduled to pick us up from Central Square at 9am and it showed up at 9:20am, but that was no big deal….
Kalambaka, Greece, Europe Today was a long day of travelling, but I met some great people, so that helped a lot. I checked out of my hotel in Delphi at 9:30am and went down to the “bus station” down the street. I got my ticket for €9.10 to Lamia. I went outside to some cafe seats to wait for the bus which was coming at 10am and a lovely American couple invited me to sit with them. Sheila and Rob…
Delphi, Greece, Europe I had an early start today with my 6am wake up call to get ready to go. I left my hotel at 6:45am to get to the bus station and hoped I would be able to get a ticket to get to Delphi without a problem. Lucky for me, it wasn’t too busy so I got the 7:30am bus and it was a pretty easy 3 hour ride to Delphi. I walked around the small town for…
Athens, Greece, Europe So they weren’t kidding. On Easter, everything in Athens in shut! It made for a very quiet day for me, but that was okay. I chilled at the hotel and watched a few episodes of Entourage, and looked ahead at where to go next. I’m getting a bus to Delphi tomorrow morning, and then I think I’m going to head up to Meteora. I left the hotel a couple of times just to take a walk and…