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One month to go!
... to meet! Can't believe we really are going to all these amazing places. Places where there are elephants and tiger ad bears (no lions as far as I know).
Plan is to go to Thailand, Vietnam. Cambodia and Burma. We have three months, so plan to take things at an easy pace. Will have to anyway, can't be doing with rushing around nowadays, we are retired you know.
Now I have ...
Airport sleepovers
Walked for an hour from the hostel to the bus stop, fair hike. Met an American student studying in israel on the bus with the same flight in the morn. Had great info on traveling and volunteering in west Africa. Me and him both crashed at the airport until 5am check ...
Crossing the Border
... I was told only Cypriots like, called Mastihka. I liked it. No surprise there. Turns out, it actually comes from a tree only found in certain areas of the Greek island of Chios and the sap was treated and used essentially as the first form of chewing gum. Two more extra credit points if you can tell me what fancy word we have in English that is related in content and orthography...
I caught a bus to Nicosia and was pleasantly surprised. This traveler ...
Nicosia, geteilte Stadt - Zypern, geteiltes Land
... alte wertvolle Kirchen schuetzen.
Was jedenfalls stimmt, ist, dass an beiden Seiten auch Gotteshaeuser der anderen Glaubensrichtung restauriert worden sind.Was leider auch stimmt, dass die beiden Seiten weit aus einander gewachsen sind und sich gerne in der anderen Richtung profilieren. Meist sichtbare Symbol davon ist vielleicht ein wahrcheinlich 100 m. breite Fahne, die die Tuerken auf der Suedseite einer Bergruecke gemalt (?) haben und von weit im griechischen Teil zu sehen ist. ...
North Cyprus adventure - day 2
... this time, picking up the same dual carriageway and heading in the opposite direction, drive for quite a time, before turning off on to the mountain pass. The road was steep but i was rewarded with some beautiful mountain views.
Found my way into Kyrenia, but found the lack of signs made it impossible to find anything, after driving around for a while i called it a day and headed back, pleased with myself for finding my way and lasting longer than the day before.
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