No alarm clock… no Fatih getting up at 6AM… finally i got em! ….. it was 9.30 Am and the crickets were outside the window and the birds singing. Our hostel window literally looked out right into the forest and made wake up a pleasure. I got up and had my shower… i am literally […]
Tag: #POLAND
Lost in translation
As humans we often come across people who are extraordinarily different and for some reason other than another we connect with them on levels that only those two people will understand and it’s a quantum entanglement that cant be explained by logic or reason. Some time people just click like a puzzle Today is my […]
Marrying a man is completely normal on holiday
Proposing to German man in a sandstone cave beneath the city of Odessa was not how i planned to spend my Monday but i guess stranger things have happened in the darkness of Odessa. It was morning and today is the final 24 hour stretch in or trip to Odessa, we had visited 99.9% of […]
The 2 worst Tourists in Ukraine
After an average of 20-25km of walking everyday , occasionally you wake up at at 11.45AM With no regrets. David is already up getting ready for the day and I’m lying on my bunk wondering why do I have to get up…. amazingly the vodka hasn’t us like a 100,000 Tonne Steam train… lucky escape […]
Draculas Castle
Today is Friday the 10th of August and it is our first day in Odessa, the city is compact and mainly made of old buildings, and oddly enough there seems to be a lot of restoration going on in the city. Kiev was in state of neutral growth, the government doesn’t seem to want to […]
In a vacuum no one can hear you scream!
It’s 6.30AM and the dorm room is literally a sauna…. must be 30 degrees in here and a ilm of sweat has covered me. I Haven’t even moved yet! Today is important cause for 13 years I have always wanted to visit Chernobyl, and i cant wait to get there! The Ride will take approximately […]
Out of control at the Ukrainian Boarder (the one Visa to rule them all)
Poland > Ukraine 3AM…. 2 hours sleep under my belt 5 Am….. 4 hours sleep 6.05AM….. 4 Hours sleep…. That was it… it was too hot and humid to even think about getting any more sleep and i resided to the fact that today was going to be “one of those days”…. I got up […]
Amputation might be the only option
Unfortunately my last day in Poland wasn’t as exciting as i hoped it would be I had spent 3 days here limping around, and by Thursday my legs were toast! I needed a day off, my body was screaming for a break and i decided to actually listen to it for once. I awoke at […]
A Sucker for Punishment
I Love Sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake.you know – Earnest Hemingway I woke up disorientated…. sweaty and the sun beaming into the bedroom and in the split moment i knew i had slept in, i scrambled for my watch….11.25AM!!!!! Great is going to be hell for my first […]
Sometimes you make bad life choices… Long pants is one
“As a soldier he is a bad politician and as a politician is an equally bad soldier.” Adolf Hitler on Churchill, May 1941 I awoke at 7.30 to 3 snoring bunk mates and the stale smell of sweat and shoes, I decided to take this liberty in stride and headed straight for the showers. The Hostel […]