Emporio

An epic journey overland from London to Kathmandu with 36 other crazy likeminded people.

Sunday we made our way to the Turkish border. We reached the border too late to cross, so ended up spending the night camping at an abandoned farm on the border. We were warned by the locals to beware of "snakes and pirates" and there was a lightning ...

26.05.2011 37. Etappe: 1. Teil Start: Harmanlın (wıld campen) Startzeit: 6:20 Uhr km: 35 Gesamt km: 2885 Ziel: Ormenıon Grenzuebertrıtt nach Grıechenland Es geht erstmal mıt 65 km/h ın dıe Ebene. Nach ca. ...

Snow covered village in the Bulgaria mountains.Out for a drive around the village country side we come across this picture card scene of a small snow covered village. The bright blue sky and white crisp snow on the ground and the smell of the log fires ...

A Winters morning walk around the village of Malomirovo were we live in Bulgaria. I come across this wonder-full site of Goldfinches feeding on a small seeding bush on the side roads of the village, as myself and my wife Andrea were walking to the ...

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... each other. The houses climb on the slope of a hill and those built higher look like a castle if seen from the exterior. Emporio has a maze of small picturesque streets, so many, that the pirates were confused - the same streets that together with a ...

... to Pisa after all, but the train on the opposite platform would.  This was contrary even to what was shown on the Emporio information boards.  The sincerity of the guard won through and, indeed, he was proved to be correct. The main attraction ...

... Rio heres a rough guide for whats good - daytime is easy to sort out. Monday- boat party Tuesday - house in ipanema Wednesday - Emporio in ipanema Thursday - Go watch a match at the Maracana Friday - go to Lapa Sat - maybe try Copacabana Sun - ...

... , we were told that you could buy an apartment in Sao Conrado for about USD$5million. The Sao Conrado mall houses boutique shops like Emporio Armani and Mont Blanc with a parking lot full of luxury cars. So how does a favela work? Each favela is run by a ...

... found our hotel. We'd be staying here five nights. The hotel was on Paradis street in a ritzy shopping district between the Emporio Armani and the Louis Vuitton store. We have been quite lucky in getting good hostels-this what happens when you plan ...

... feeling this was a rich neighborhood. We turned into Knigtsbridge Rd. were we passed fashion stores of the biggest names like Emporio Armani and Cavalli. The streets were packed of Saturday-strollers, just like us. Kat and I stopped in every bakery ...

... of hundred liras, small change to them it seemed. I couldn't help but wonder where they obtained the money to buy their Emporio Armani watches, but without a command of Kurdish this was left to the imagination. A well dressed man striding round with a ...