tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16677694549210456782024-03-06T08:28:13.346+01:00Stephens AdventuresOne Random Guy's Attempt to Visit Every Country in Europe.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-27593215403555405762016-04-17T14:17:00.000+02:002016-04-17T14:17:22.208+02:00IstanbulI'm down in Istanbul for the weekend enjoying a bit of sun. The tourism numbers have really decreased in Istanbul, due to world events, so it's a great time to go and save a bit of money on an awesome trip!<br />
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Heading out to the Bosphorus Straight</div>
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Ortakoy Mosque</div>
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Kucuksu Palace</div>
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Inside the Basilica Cistern</div>
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Visiting Ayasofya with new friends.</div>
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The Blue Mosque</div>
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Spices in the Spice Market</div>
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After a few days hanging out in Inlay lake I headed north to Mandalay. To catch up with my friends that had headed on ahead I had to take a local bus and head for Kyuakme. I did manage to met up with them in Kyuakme where we spent the night. Kyuakme is a neat place to visit since almost no tourists stay there. We tried our hand at hitchhiking the next morning and easily caught a ride to Hsipaw.<br />
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Hsipaw was our starting point for some amazing hiking with Mitch Michael through tea plantations, rice farms, and the mountains.<br />
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Fields of peppers drying between Kyuakme and Inlay lake.</div>
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Inlay Lake</div>
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One of the rice fields hiking in Hsipaw.</div>
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Myanmar is a wonderful country that is changing really quickly and still hasn't seen nearly as much change due to tourism as Vietnam or Thailand. If you want to get a little off the beaten path I highly recommend it!<br />
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As I have so many pictures from Myanmar I figured I would break this into two posts. This first post is from my travels between Yangon and Bagan.<br />
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Inside Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon </div>
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Shwedagon Pagoda built between 6th and 10th century.</div>
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Kids playing inside Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon.</div>
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The "Circle Train" that circles Yangon, the locals use the time to prepare vegetables for market.</div>
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A very brave monk reading between two moving trains.</div>
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Waiting for sunrise sitting on a temple from the 12th century</div>
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First balloon of the morning over the thousands of temples in Bagan.</div>
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Entrance to one of the larger temples in Bagan.</div>
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Sunrise on the second day in Bagan. It's hard not to take thousands of pictures with a view like that!</div>
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Sunset at one of our favorite temples.</div>
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The best way to explore around all of the temples, hitting up the dirt roads on electric bikes!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-63535578669911532092016-03-14T22:28:00.000+01:002016-03-14T22:35:15.326+01:00Norway Spring 2016Well it's been ages since I've thrown up a blog post, but that doesn't mean I haven't been out traveling. It just mean's I've been lazy! Last year I ran up a total tally (without counting repeats) of 27 countries, and so far this year (2016) I've been in China, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Thailand, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and Norway!<br />
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If you're in the Bergen area you should definitely rent a car and explore the fjords both north and south of Bergen. Also a big thanks to my couch surfing buddy Bård for hosting me and my friends!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-67999841934604940872015-03-29T15:23:00.000+02:002015-03-29T15:25:30.362+02:00AndorraWhen I was down in Barcelona visiting friends, and doing some work at MWC, I managed to find a free weekend to head over to Andorra. We took the bus from Barcelona to Andorra la Vella, which is the capitol. I had hoped to rent a car and be able to explore but I forgot to bring my international drivers license, which Canadians require to rent a car in Spain.<br />
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The trip over was really beautiful going through the Pyrenees with all of the fantastic views. The capitol itself is a less beautiful downtown. It was a little bit like a huge duty free shop, with lots of perfume, cameras, watches, and similar things due to the low taxes in Andorra. If you go make sure you walk up and out of the downtown, to enjoy the great views, nice squares, small streets, and free tequila! (More on that soon)<br />
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Walking up the hill and away from the duty free stores.</div>
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Out enjoying the views of the Pyrenees.</div>
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Wandering up through a little trail.</div>
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Free chocolate tequila in our favorite Mexican restaurant in Andorra!</div>
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The free food can be found at almost every bar in town during happy hour. If you buy a beer you get all the free food you can eat. It's a really fantastic system and a great reason to have an extra beer or two!<br />
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Duomo di Milano the Cathedral of Milan. This spectacular building took almost six centuries to build!</div>
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If you visit Duomo you should definitely go up on the roof! Just remember you have to buy the ticket in a different place on the other side of the building from the elevator and the stairs!</div>
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The view of the square in front of Duomo from on top of the Cathedral.</div>
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Inside the Milan Castle.</div>
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The front of the Castle</div>
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The Victory Arch.</div>
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Duomo by Night</div>
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With some early morning wandering, we managed to get some pictures without all of the usual tourists in them. First wandering up the main street towards the palace, then wandering down towards the water and looking out over the harbor.<br />
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James hanging out by the Harbor (Waiting for the coffee shop to open)</div>
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The Castle (Which is actually still an active military base)</div>
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Through a bit of coincidence I ended up being in Madrid for Canada Day, as a good Canadian, I managed to find a few more Canadians (and one American) to spend the day drinking with and exploring Madrid.</div>
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Some of what we saw:</div>
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Another Beautiful Church</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-79923843831208357282014-08-29T19:43:00.000+02:002014-08-29T19:43:52.641+02:00Portugal<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">It sounds horrible, but I had put off visiting Portugal for quite a while, mostly because I had always just assumed it was pretty much the same as Spain, and I had already been to Spain a couple of times. I couldn't have been more wrong! The coastline is completely different (and very impressive), the people are also amazing, and Lisbon is beautiful to wander through, in a completely different way from Spain. </span><br />
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My trip started out in a funny way, I had planned to fly from Lyon to Lisbon, but unfortunately the French ATC was on strike. With my flight cancelled I decided to try to get to Lisbon via Barcelona. After a night bus to Barcelona, and a day on the breach on Barcelona drinking sangria (every layover should include sangria and beaches), I flew to Lisbon. </div>
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After arriving on Lisbon I met up with my friend Rachel and her friends in the hostel. The hostel was fantastic and I highly recommend staying there (<a href="http://www.homelisbonhostel.com/">Home Hostel Lisbon</a>). After I got settled in we headed out for a nice dinner and drinks drinks, before exploring Lisbon a little by night.<br />
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That evening was the "Fete De La Musique" and so we met up with my friend Anne-Laure and her friends to go and enjoy the music and the street parties. It was awesome! </div>
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The next day I met up with one of my old high school friends, Alysse, who happened to be in Paris at the same time as me by coincidence. After a couple of drinks I headed back to my hostel, met up with Mathias and we found the most amazing little Chinese restaurant that had just opened 3 weeks before. </div>
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Lyon is a beautiful city and is very peaceful and fun to explore for two reasons. The first reason is that it lies between two rivers the Saone and the Rhone which makes for many kilometers of parks and pathways to walk through. The second reason it is so fun to explore, is the traboules which are small passages that run between buildings everywhere. Originally designed for carrying silk to market, without getting rained on, today they are concealed by the doors of Lyon. To find them you can get a map at the tourist center, or you can just wander through Lyon trying doors and pushing unlabeled buttons hoping they unlock the doors. I'm sure that about half of Lyon was annoyed by me wandering by shaking their door and ringing their doorbells! </div>
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After a fun day of exploring I met up right Anne-Laure and we headed off for dinner at a traditional restaurant and a little exploring around town. The next day I explored a different area of town and enjoyed a bit of time relaxing near the river. After meeting up with Anne-Laure we cooked dinner and enjoyed sitting with her roommate on the patio, drinking wine, and enjoying a few lovely french cheeses.<br />
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The next day I slept in a little before getting a lovely email telling me my flight from Lyon scheduled for that evening, was canceled. After a little scrambling I got that sorted out and was off to the mall, where I bought a new book and a drink and lay by the river enjoying the sun. After Anne-Laure got off work she cooked a lovely seafood dinner and I was off on my next adventure!<br />
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One of the many beautiful courtyards discovered while exploring the Traboules</div>
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That night I checked in to my hostel next to the
Van Gough museum in Amsterdam, and headed out to wander the town.
Amsterdam is a really interesting city with attractions ranging from the red
light district and pot cafes, to famous museums and parks. The downtown core is divided by canals and small streets hiding lots of little bars and restaurants. After a
great wander through town avoiding being run down by crazy Amsterdamers on two wheels, I found an amazing little bar called Hansel and Gretal to
enjoy a beer next to the canal. From my safe vantage point in the bar I
was able to enjoy watching all of the other pedestrians trying to avoid being hit by the
cyclists. (Its far funner to watch when it isn't you!) <br />
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new friend to go for a beer with. We went back to the same pubs from
the night before and did a little people watching before going past the
I Amsterdam sign.<br />
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on the train and we met up. Haarlem has a nice little brewery so we headed there, sat
down, started working from one end of the taps to the other while enjoying
some traditional dutch snacks. After that we headed by the restaurant
and had a great dinner before hitting the store and then moving on to a
relaxing night of beer and snacks.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-41657007572231643282014-06-12T23:16:00.000+02:002014-06-12T23:17:49.930+02:00Macedonia<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">One of my buddies from my swedish class in Malmö is from Macedonia, so when he moved back I had a great excuse to visit. It was also a good chance to try to fly from Malmö airport for a change, instead of Copenhagen airport, since Wizz Air offers direct flights from Malmö to Skopje. </span><br />
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I
had to renew my passport before I could go anywhere, and so I had
planned 3 weeks of being in Malmö and Copenhagen prior to the trip. I
managed to get my passport 3 days before I flew. Talk about a great way
to break in my new passport, an exit stamp from Sweden!<br />
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took me into town. I had booked a hostel for the first two nights right
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Gate Macedonia, right next to my Hostel!</div>
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is a really interesting town, with quite a few really massive statues,
and some "old" looking buildings that are actually quite new. After
checking into the hostel I met a British guy to wander around with. We
headed out to go look at all of the monuments and buildings. I think I
can safely say that Skopje is the most unique town I have ever visited,
both in terms of the architecture and the monuments. Only one block
from a huge 25m statue, that looks suspiciously like Alexander the
Great, is the same style architecture that you find all around the
former eastern block.<br />
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church, and a castle. The castle was really nice to wander through, and
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After
wandering around Skopje for the day and spending the next morning
chatting with the staff in the hostel, Dule came back to Skopje to pick
me up. We headed south to Bitola with a coffee stop in Prilep first.
On the drive down we went through the mountains passes, and enjoyed the
views. We enjoyed a couple more cups of coffee in town, and I tried a
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we went out to the bar. The night life in Bitola was fantastic, and the
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Saturday after was a recovery day, so we all headed to Ohrid, a town on
the edge of the lake. From here we enjoyed the fresh air and lovely
views. Dule and I made the walk up the hills to see the ancient
fortress as well as the amazing churches. From the top of the fortress
the view was fantastic.<br />
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walked around and enjoyed the coffee and the town before making the
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Fantastic
trip and I can't recommend Macedonia enough. Just if you go, make
sure you don't only stay in Skopje. There are too many other amazing
towns to visit.<br />
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The Mother Teresa Memorial.</div>
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Yet another huge monument in Skopje.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-4154433366688488152014-05-18T22:58:00.000+02:002014-05-20T20:49:42.314+02:00Belgium<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">My friends Travis and Anh had planned a little Euro trip, it had started with a visit to Copenhagen and Malmö to visit me, and it was ending with a stop in Brussels before returning to Canada. As I had a red day (holiday) on Thursday, I decided that I would fly to Brussels Wednesday after work. The plan was to meet up with them Friday before returning to Sweden on Sunday night. </span><br />
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After arriving in Brussels I checked into the same hostel I stayed in last time, and then met some friends in the common area, a couple of awesome Canadian girls and an Australian girl, all of whom are doing exchange in Europe. We had a great night and ended up in Delirium enjoying a little absinth and I enjoyed a "Cookie Beer" .... which actually tasted like cookies.<br />
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The next morning I took off to Luxembourg <a href="http://toshi38.blogspot.se/2014/05/luxembourg.html">(Blog Post Here)</a>, and after a night and most of the next day I headed back to Brussels to meet up with Anh and Travis. They had booked us into a pretty nice hotel that they had a great deal on. I met up with them in the afternoon and we headed out to have a couple drinks and chat about their Europe adventures. Afterwards we headed out for the night but ended up packing in fairly early, although we did manage to meet up with the french girls from Luxembourg.<br />
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Since Travis and Anh where leaving early I decided to go to Bruges for the day and explore the town. It had an economic crash right at its peak. As a result much of it was just left in the medieval style, as the money wasn't available to even demolish the old buildings. The result is a medieval city that still exists today. It also has some really nice canals.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-82636305457232968372014-05-12T23:43:00.000+02:002014-05-12T23:43:31.725+02:00Luxembourg<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">I had planned to meet up Brussels with my friends Anh and Travis in before they went back to Canada. Due to some poor planning on my part, I ended up with nowhere to stay in Brussels for a night. I decided that the solution to this problem would be to go to Luxembourg and stay there for a night. (plus I could check off another country!) </span><br />
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The train goes from Brussels to Luxembourg every hour, so it is rather convenient. There is only one hostel in Luxembourg, so it wasn't too hard to decide where to stay. The hostel is a really big HI hostel and is in a great location, although the common area is perhaps not the best for meeting people. The walk to the hostel took about 25 min from the train station, and is a lovely walk that winds along the bottom of the castle walls and the edge of the cliffs. The views are really breathtaking, with a small river and a beautiful church as well.</div>
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The next morning at breakfast I met a Slovenian girl, and we spent the morning wandering and taking some pictures of the upper part of the town. Luxembourg is really clean, and it's quite obvious that there is a lot of money spent on the city as all of the buildings are quite beautiful and expensive looking, despite it being a tiny little town.</div>
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The Aqueduct next to my hostel (re purposed into a road)</div>
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Proof I was in Luxembourg!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-86728763961743194922014-05-08T19:47:00.001+02:002014-05-08T19:47:29.162+02:00Ireland<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Me and my buddy Dominic had been discussing potential cities to meet up in ever since he had visited Malmö and Copenhagen. We eventually decided that a trip to Dublin would be fun, so we bought tickets, and decided that his buddy Denis would be joining us. I booked us into the same hostel that I had stayed in previously, when I had been in Dublin a few years ago, and we were good to go! </span><br />
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I really love Dublin and just Ireland in general, the people are really friendly, the pubs are really good, and the beer is pretty cheap (especially compared with Scandinavia). We all met up at the airport, because coincidentally all of our flights came in within about 15 min of each other. After heading to town, we were immediately helped out by a nice guy who realized that we needed a point in the right direction, and helped us find our way. After a quick check in at the hostel, we headed out for a few lovely pints of Guinness and to discuss our plans for the weekend.</div>
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We decided that we would do the usual free city tour, a pub crawl (me and Dominic had previously done the CPH pub crawl), a tour of the Guinness Storehouse, and a tour of the Jameson distillery, then we would finish up the weekend by watching Canada win gold in Olympic Men's hockey. (I know we didn't know the outcome yet but I was sure!) </div>
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The city tour was really great and we only got a couple of really light rains, for about 10 min each, which I'm always told to expect when in Dublin. The city tour goes to a pub for lunch afterwards, and if you go I highly recommend going and getting a plate of food, it is 10 euros really well spent! </div>
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The pub crawl featured lots of pubs with really good live bands and we thoroughly enjoyed it. The next day was a bit of a recovery day so we took a walk down along the river to the Jameson distillery and did the tour before going across the river to the Guinness Storehouse. The Storehouse features an amazing view of Dublin from their top floor where you can enjoy a pint of lovely Guinness. While I was there some very nice Australian girl decided to give me her Guinness, and so I enjoyed two! After all this we headed out, and decided that we would go to our favorite of the pubs from the pub crawl, wait for the pub crawlers and then join them for the last bar. We had a chat with the barman, and he agreed that he would put the gold medal match on the TV's for us the next day.</div>
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The next day we were all heading home, so we packed our bags, headed to the bar that had agreed to show the gold medal game, and sat down to an Irish breakfast and a bit of hockey. Dominic and Denis had to head out in the middle of the game for their flight, but I managed to catch our rather glorious win in an amazing pub in downtown Dublin before running for my bus, and then my flight home.<br />
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Keywest, an awesome band out playing music in the street.</div>
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I ended up arriving in Istanbul a few days earlier then I expected (mostly because I had not had any luck with train connections to Romania) . As a result of arriving early I felt that I had enough time to see both Istanbul and perhaps one other area of Turkey. I decided that I would stay for a couple of days in Istanbul then I would go to Cappadocia to see that part of Turkey.<br />
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Istanbul is an amazing city and is very clean compared with the eastern European cities I had come from. The only complaint I had about my arrival, was that the train tracks are currently under construction and so they are supposed to provide a bus to downtown from the edge of town. This bus didn't end up existing, but lucky for me a very nice Austrian girl paid for me to get a city bus to downtown. <br />
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After arriving downtown I met some really awesome people to explore Istanbul with, at what I'd say is probably the nicest hostel that I have ever stayed in. If you are going to Istanbul you should definitely stay at the Cheers hostel the staff are amazing and the view from the hostel bar is unbelievable. It is right in the middle of the old town and really cheap too!<br />
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After a couple of days of wandering Istanbul, I had manged to avoid buying a carpet despite being in a few of the bazaars, so it was time for me to go to Cappadocia. I tool the night bus which was quite nice and even had a steward to serve drinks and coffee! Cappadocia is famous for its volcanic rock structures and the underground cities built by the ancient Hittites. I had booked a tour of sorts through a travel place in Istanbul, (otherwise you'd need a car or motorbike to get to all of the locations in Cappadocia), included in this tour was the bus trip, a ride to all the local sites, and a room to stay in a "cave hostel". The tour was supposed to also include a balloon ride but the weather ended up not being good enough. The cave hostel was great though and the lava formations and the underground cities where like something out of a movie. <br />
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The volcanic structures where formed by alternating ash and lava layers creating hard structures with soft easy to carve inside bits. Ancient christians and others carved all sorts of churches, houses, and even hotels into these structures. All of these are really amazing, especially the cathedrals that are carved and painted in the rocks.<br />
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After exploring the caves, the cave churches, the volcanic formations and the underground city I headed back to Istanbul. I wandered through town and ended up finally finding myself a new backpack! I had been looking for backpacks for a while, and had one in mind, as my big 70L bag was just way to big for most trips around Europe. However my new 32L bag is perfect and can be carry on! <br />
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The lighthouse from "The World is Not Enough" the James Bond movie.</div>
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Blue Mosque</div>
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Me and the amazing structures carved into the lava formations.</div>
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Sofia is quite interesting because their are a large mix of different styles, as well as some Roman ruins. We did some exploring around the town, and set off the alarms at the mall(thanks to poorly labeled fire exits). Sofia is a really nice city with lots of cool buildings, and a giant gold lady statue in the center. I particularly liked the little tiny church and the National Theatre. While I was in Sofia we also went to an awesome concert featuring Dimitar's friend's sister, which was really fun. The concert also featured great music, cheap beer, and of course a crowd surfing penguin. Dimitar also showed me a great spot at the university where he works. You can climb up on top of the roof and enjoy a beer overlooking the whole city! I wish my university had that when I was studying! <br />
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Since I was in Sofia for a few days, Dimitar suggested that I should go to Plovdiv, which is a small town nearby, as well, and see the town. The town is quite famous for its Roman ruins. After taking the train up to Plovdiv in the morning I enjoyed the Plovdiv free tour (especially the really amazing Roman theater). Also in Plovdiv was a huge Roman Stadium, fortunately most of it is buried under the town but part of it is opened up to see. After all this, my amazing trip to Bulgaria came to an end with another night train to Istanbul... That's a different adventure though!<br />
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Dimitar's Buddy's Sister Singing (Crowd Surfing Penguins not Shown)</div>
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This really large statue of a golden girl is in the middle of Sofia.</div>
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During the Ottoman Empire churches could not be higher then a man on a horse, so they used to build them below ground level! Here is a good example.</div>
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The National Theatre</div>
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When I was in Sofia it was very foggy for most of the time.</div>
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A neat bronze statue of Milio known as the "Harmless Crazy" </div>
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Belgrade is a really interesting city, as you come into the city by
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After I had wandered to my hostel. I was quite happy to find out, when I checked in, that they had free alcohol! After checking in I went for a wander and located first some food, and second a bar with a beerpong table and cheap beer! It was a really fun night with some new friends from Slovenia, and their homemade wine.<br />
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Then the next morning, I went to wander around the town for the day and enjoyed some local foods. In Belgrade there is a really awesome castle at the spot where the Danube River meets the Sava River. There is a peace memorial (consisting of a naked dude on a pole holding a pigeon and a sword), as well as lovely views of the rivers. Along the rivers are many boats each with a bar onboard (Great spring destination!).<br />
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That night I met up with a girl from Couchsurfing who took me out and showed me an awesome restaurant with live music, then showed me around new Belgrade. We went along the water and saw a really cool old church on the top of the hill. We also went and explored some of the other areas of New Belgrade.<br />
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The Peace Monument (Naked Guy, Pidgin, Sword)</div>
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A really nice church in New Belgrade</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-38908538723226468902014-03-01T11:28:00.000+01:002014-03-01T11:28:23.504+01:00CroatiaCroatia was one of the few stops I had planned ahead. One of my friends I had met in Ottawa is actually from Croatia, and had invited me for New Years! After visiting Vera in Austria the next stop was to visit Kristina in Zagreb. After an amazing train ride through the mountains (amazing views), I ran into a few British folks on a train tour who shared their drinks with me! Before I knew it I was in Zagreb, where I checked into my awesome hostel which was right in the middle of downtown.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-66137579173591600802014-02-27T20:18:00.000+01:002014-02-27T20:18:51.812+01:00SlovakiaIn between being in Vienna, and going to Saltzburg I spent a bit of time in Bratislava, Slovakia. Its a great city that has some amazing views, and what is currently my favorite pub in Europe!<br />
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Compared with all of the views of Bratislava, I had from various movies (Hostel, Eurotrip) I was quite happy to see its a little different. <br />
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I really enjoyed my brief time in Bratislava, there is a fantastic free walking tour that takes you around town and they have a nice castle (Rebuild completed in 2005). They also have the most fantastic blue church I have ever seen (It looks like a fairytale). </div>
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In my favorite bar, I thought I would try all 3 of the local dishes in one go. I asked for the mixed plate, and the waiter looked at me a little bit funny before asking: "Are you sure you want that". I assured him I did (it was a little expensive at almost 10euro), and he agreed to bring it. About 10 min later I found out why he had asked. The plate was actually 3 full size plates carved into a wooden plater containing Bryndzove Halusky (potatoes with sheep's cheese), Bryndzove Pirohy (Perogies), and Strapacky (Cabbage also known as Cabbage Halusky). All three were delicious but I don't think I even managed to eat half as they are all very heavy! </div>
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The amazing blue church! ... Just like a fairytale! </div>
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The palaces and churches in Vienna are really quite nice, and they are conveniently mostly in one area so you can walk in an almost straight line and see all of them.<br />
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After being in Vienna I had a brief stopover in Bratislava (next blog post) and then I headed to Salzberg to visit Vera. We had a great time going around the city of Salzberg and after a short wander up to the castle on top of the mountain we went for beers followed by chocolate cake. I had forgotten how much I missed having mountains around (Ottawa and Malmo are both very flat!). After our snack we headed off for dinner at the top of a mountain in a Gasthaus. To get to the gasthaus, we hiked all the way to the top of the mountain in the snow. Once we arrived and enjoyed dinner with beers and then hit the schnapps. As we were the last ones left in the place the owner came by to chat and buy us one last round of schnapps. After the schnapps we took sleds down the mountain to get back to our car. I only crashed a few times, and it was great fun! <br />
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The next day after an amazing lunch with Vera's grandmother it was off to Croatia!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-54903597933684541822014-01-28T21:55:00.000+01:002014-01-28T21:55:30.518+01:00HungaryThe next stop on my Christmas trip was to go to Hungary. I took the train from Brno and after a bit of wandering I Hostel. I even ran into two Canadian guys in the street before finding the hostel. As it was nearing both my birthday and Christmas I had only booked a couple of nights (Hoping to find a fun crowd to spend the two with). After checking in and meeting the awesome folks there, I quickly decided that I would stay until after Christmas. We all worked on creating more than a few empty bottles, and the Australians cooked a great risotto for Christmas dinner!<br />
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The hostel crowd:<br />
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Budapest is actually two cities "Buda" and "Pest" which are on opposite sides of the river. Here is a view of the "Pest" side from up on the hill: (also someone's Christmas welcome!)<br />
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The hostel was called HomePlus and had a really neat common area with a multi-level platform common area: (Picture stolen from google)<br />
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We all hung out lots, cooked a batch of mulled wine with about 20 bottles of wine, and then we went to the Turkish baths for Christmas day:<br />
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(I stole this picture from national geographic since I didn't want to be that creepy dude in the bath with a camera!)<br />
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We also did a walking tour and saw lots of cool sites. I will definitely be going to Budapest again as it is an amazing city! <br />
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A couple more pictures from the walking tour:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-58717641276855185662014-01-19T20:13:00.001+01:002014-01-19T20:18:48.587+01:00The Czech Republic -- Christmas Trip Stop 1Well as many people know I have a firm belief that if you're going to get what you want for Christmas, you should buy it for yourself. So with that in mind I decided I would get myself an interrail ticket. I had 24 days off and a 21 day interrail ticket. Since there was a night train from Copenhagen to Prague, I decided that Prague would be the best place to start my trip.<br />
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Prague is an amazing city, it has great beer, amazing food, and a beautiful castle. I stayed in what was one of neatest hostels I've ever stayed in. With lots of great activities including baking some traditional cookies in the evening, and I love eating free cookies! I took the usual free walking tour, and then from there went for lunch at a traditional restaurant with some new friends. After eating the fresh homemade cookies I met another Canadian and we went to go explore Prague at night and wandered up to the castle and back. <br />
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As some of my close friends weren't in town I decided I would keep the Prague visit short and went on to Brno to visit friends there :) <br />
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Brno was very foggy, although I did find a great Christmas tradition there! I would like to encourage other places to start the same tradition. In the Czech Republic you will often find large pools of water set up around Christmas. In these pools will be tones of large carp because Czech people like to have "fresh" carp soup for Christmas. The trick is that if you want really fresh soup you should keep the fish in your bathtub and feed it each day! (I'm serious: <a href="http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech_culture/czech_holidays/christmas.html">http://www.myczechrepublic.com/czech_culture/czech_holidays/christmas.html</a> )<br />
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After a great night out I was off to the next country: Hungary!<br />
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Some Pictures:<br />
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Cathedral in Prague</div>
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The Opera House </div>
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The Bridge and Castle in Prague</div>
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Another picture of the Cathedral</div>
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A picture from wandering around at night.</div>
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The bridge and castle at night (The amazing castle lights were provided by the Rolling Stones! <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/504571/stones-light-up-prague-castle.jhtml">http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/504571/stones-light-up-prague-castle.jhtml</a>)</div>
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Another Cathedral </div>
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Me an Katka in Brno</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09875579264470705490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667769454921045678.post-84282255273329539582014-01-14T21:49:00.000+01:002014-01-14T21:49:23.206+01:00England<br />
Well this post is way overdue. Thanks to Cecilia for calling me out for not writing it. Last year I had gone to the UK to visit an old buddy of mine I'd met in Australia. I started had started in Manchester, took the train to Birmingham and then we went to Hinckley which is where my buddy actually lives. Its tricky to write about Hinckley as we went out and my memory is a little fuzzy. Although I did run into someone else I had met in Australia!<br />
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Due to the fuzzy memories I'll have to plan another trip to the UK soon! <br />
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My one and only picture from the UK:<br />
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