am loving cheese pies, donuts and lots of other bakery goodness. hooray for bakery goodness. am now in Athens. We have just come from Olympia yesterday, took 11hours instead of 5 1/2, as we hit a cow on the train, and broke it (both cow and train)... then sat in the train for 1hr, whilst another engine came to take us back over the cow to catch a bus to corinth, then train to athens.
olympia was very nice, great ruins, cliched photos (discus and javelin, i look so sporty) and the museum there is really well set out. so, athens at the moment.
and today wandering around ruins, this arvo, up to the Acropolis when it is a bit cooler. unfortunately only a day in athens, and then off to Copenhagen tomorrow. and tell you what, i am actually starting to miss my london home, can't wait to get back on tuesday night.
am in a bit of a bad mood at the moment, sorry, couldn't be bothered to type too much or think too hard about what i have done. but i will fix it with a donut and an ice-cream.
and write more from London.
love you all
deev
p.s. am excited about seeing the little mermaid in copenhagen
Friday, August 25, 2006
Monday, August 21, 2006
greece
wonderful sunny greece!!
well, we are on the Peleponese in Greece, it is beautiful here!!! We are at Napflio. The world was against us in Thesseloniki, so we caught a bus to Athens and then to Napflio. Again, yesterday the world was against us. We went to Mycenae and it was beautiful, so old, so much history there! We then caught a bus to Corinth, but unfortunately had to change busses and waited in the 3:00sun melting and the bus didn't come, so we missed out on going to Corinth (but saw a beautiful postcard!) and went back to the beach in Napflio. So, an ok end to the day. today is an admin day with eating, e-mails, transfers, catching up on postcards and oh yes.... BEACH!!! the sea here is beautiful, salty and the rocks are very warm. well lovely!!!
well, about to un out of internet time, so i best be going now.
will update on the rest later. ( i wrote a big list of things i wanted to include, but left them at the hotel). so from here, to another day and some more ruins, then to Olympia (more ruins), athens, copenhagen and then london... ho humm. my time of travel this time is coming to an end, but it is great!!
love you all
deev
well, we are on the Peleponese in Greece, it is beautiful here!!! We are at Napflio. The world was against us in Thesseloniki, so we caught a bus to Athens and then to Napflio. Again, yesterday the world was against us. We went to Mycenae and it was beautiful, so old, so much history there! We then caught a bus to Corinth, but unfortunately had to change busses and waited in the 3:00sun melting and the bus didn't come, so we missed out on going to Corinth (but saw a beautiful postcard!) and went back to the beach in Napflio. So, an ok end to the day. today is an admin day with eating, e-mails, transfers, catching up on postcards and oh yes.... BEACH!!! the sea here is beautiful, salty and the rocks are very warm. well lovely!!!
well, about to un out of internet time, so i best be going now.
will update on the rest later. ( i wrote a big list of things i wanted to include, but left them at the hotel). so from here, to another day and some more ruins, then to Olympia (more ruins), athens, copenhagen and then london... ho humm. my time of travel this time is coming to an end, but it is great!!
love you all
deev
Thursday, August 10, 2006
don't picnic in Bucharest in the park
with alcohol!!! especially if you are going to sit on the grass!!! my goodness, what an advenutre yesterday.
tori and i met some english med students at the parliamentry palace tour. we then decided to have a picnic lunch in the park... lovely day for it. but apparently, no alcohol allowed. two police men made us go with them to their little hut, where they spoke to the guys inside. then the door closed and tori and i had to decide whether to run or not. the door opened again and we found ourselves giving money over to the cops... well, better that than end up i jail!
so, now i have a story of being 'arrested' in a foreign country. remember, not good to picnic in the park on the grass with alcohol!!!
leaving Romania today, off to Bulgaria. not sure whether you can picnic there... will find out we suppose. will update otherstuff lateer,
love
deev
tori and i met some english med students at the parliamentry palace tour. we then decided to have a picnic lunch in the park... lovely day for it. but apparently, no alcohol allowed. two police men made us go with them to their little hut, where they spoke to the guys inside. then the door closed and tori and i had to decide whether to run or not. the door opened again and we found ourselves giving money over to the cops... well, better that than end up i jail!
so, now i have a story of being 'arrested' in a foreign country. remember, not good to picnic in the park on the grass with alcohol!!!
leaving Romania today, off to Bulgaria. not sure whether you can picnic there... will find out we suppose. will update otherstuff lateer,
love
deev
Monday, August 07, 2006
brasov
well, it is all a lie!!!! Tori and I are still in Romania in Brasov and went on a castle tour yesteday to 'Dracula' castle. and really, it is just a castle that they use to sell dracula stuff, Vlad Dracul never went there. But it was fascinating all the same. The countryside here is great!! And as i said before, everything is so different to the rest of Europe that i have experienced so far.
our train trip from Sighisoara went really fast as we were chatting to two romanian guys who just decided to bag me out most of the journey! GREAT FUN!!! they actually had me in tears of laughter at one stage because the call they made was just me in a nutshell, how someone you have just met can bag you out so precisely is beyond me, but they managed. and then we got to our hostel and apparently they were about to give away our beds because we arrived at 8:00pm instead of 4:00pm, whoops, never knew we had to be so ontime when travelling. our first night in Brasov was great. we wandered into the centre of town and there was a free concert with a rock type band with a violinist. they were pretty cool and then a boy band came on!! they were fantastic... dancing, singing, the whole hog... tori and i couldn't stop laughing at them, but to give them credit, they weren't too bad. then some old dude came on with a rock band and we decided sleep might have been a bit more important, so back to the hostel.
yesterday we went on the (hostel run) castle tour and it was a nice day out. full of people from the hostel, romanian food and bits of information about castles and citadels and the guide put as much dracula stuff into everything. 'see this clothing chest here?? this is where dracula used to sleep!'
ok, well, i think today is just a lazy day exploring the city and surroundings of Brasov, maybe even read in the park for a bit.
our train trip from Sighisoara went really fast as we were chatting to two romanian guys who just decided to bag me out most of the journey! GREAT FUN!!! they actually had me in tears of laughter at one stage because the call they made was just me in a nutshell, how someone you have just met can bag you out so precisely is beyond me, but they managed. and then we got to our hostel and apparently they were about to give away our beds because we arrived at 8:00pm instead of 4:00pm, whoops, never knew we had to be so ontime when travelling. our first night in Brasov was great. we wandered into the centre of town and there was a free concert with a rock type band with a violinist. they were pretty cool and then a boy band came on!! they were fantastic... dancing, singing, the whole hog... tori and i couldn't stop laughing at them, but to give them credit, they weren't too bad. then some old dude came on with a rock band and we decided sleep might have been a bit more important, so back to the hostel.
yesterday we went on the (hostel run) castle tour and it was a nice day out. full of people from the hostel, romanian food and bits of information about castles and citadels and the guide put as much dracula stuff into everything. 'see this clothing chest here?? this is where dracula used to sleep!'
ok, well, i think today is just a lazy day exploring the city and surroundings of Brasov, maybe even read in the park for a bit.
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Sighisoara - birthplace of dracula
so, my last night in Budapest I went out with a group of people from the hostel. nice groups, but the club wasn't that exciting. even still, stayed out till 4:20am. had to wake up at 6:20am for our train to Sighisoara... so not much sleep, but tell you what, it was a great sleep!!! the train trip was about 7hrs long and for most of it i saw the inside of my eyelids. but when i was awake and not reading, the countryside was beautiful. forests and hills and fields of veggies. tori told me the hungarian side was much flatter and more barren. sometimes when we approached the villages when i looked out, i was quite shocked at the buildings. i am not used to the architecture - barren concrete buildings with half the windows missing and kids playing in the dirt out the front. i guess it is just a different way of life that has been formed by very different times and experiences.
So, today, wandering around Sighisoara, the birthplace of dracula. his birthhouse is now a cafe/restaurant, but had to visit it anyways. we are trying to figure out the culture here... influenced by russia (or at least the cyllic languages {if that is what they are called, pardon my ignorance}), germany, hungary, sounds similar to italian.
it is a beautiful town with a great slow pace, and a wonderful mish-mash of architecture. well, instead of looking at the differences in computer screens and keyboards in different countries, i should experience the nature and city and people.
off to explore and practise my english (i am well tired, but it's beautiful here innit)
love youse all,
deev
So, today, wandering around Sighisoara, the birthplace of dracula. his birthhouse is now a cafe/restaurant, but had to visit it anyways. we are trying to figure out the culture here... influenced by russia (or at least the cyllic languages {if that is what they are called, pardon my ignorance}), germany, hungary, sounds similar to italian.
it is a beautiful town with a great slow pace, and a wonderful mish-mash of architecture. well, instead of looking at the differences in computer screens and keyboards in different countries, i should experience the nature and city and people.
off to explore and practise my english (i am well tired, but it's beautiful here innit)
love youse all,
deev
Thursday, August 03, 2006
hungary
so, in vienna, we didn`t end up going to the opera, cos it rained, but the next day it brightened up a bit and we went to see the Jazz at Raushatz Platz, and it was really good. good food, good weather, good music, very cultured. and then we wandered the streets looking at very grand architecture. loved it. on sunday night we went back to raushatz platz and watched a dvd of the vienna philharmonic orchestra on a big screen. and had some local beer. it was a great end to a fantastic day. the next day, tori went to salzberg and i stayed in vienna. i had breakfast at a very nice cafe and then walked to Mozarts tribute grave or something. spent like 5 hours wandering in the sun with flip-flops on... very tired and sore feet by the end, but it was a good day.
and then onto budapest where yesterday we went to some thermal baths, very relaxing. but then decided to blow our minds by walking through a house of terror that tells of hungary under the nazis and communism... i feel very ingnorant after going there, so much more to know about the world. and it all happened so recently. something to read up a bit more about when i get back to London (and can read the books due to language).
so, today, wandering around budapest, the buda side, and then tomorrow off to sighisoara in transylvania. I am really looking forward for this part of the journey. and i think we are slightly ahead of what we previously thought, so have some time to hang around there if we want, or to move on. it is lovely not having much to do everyday.
well, that`s all for the moment.
love
davina
and then onto budapest where yesterday we went to some thermal baths, very relaxing. but then decided to blow our minds by walking through a house of terror that tells of hungary under the nazis and communism... i feel very ingnorant after going there, so much more to know about the world. and it all happened so recently. something to read up a bit more about when i get back to London (and can read the books due to language).
so, today, wandering around budapest, the buda side, and then tomorrow off to sighisoara in transylvania. I am really looking forward for this part of the journey. and i think we are slightly ahead of what we previously thought, so have some time to hang around there if we want, or to move on. it is lovely not having much to do everyday.
well, that`s all for the moment.
love
davina
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