Sailing The Bosphorus
23 Oktober 2023, Turki ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Istanbul: The only city to have a footprint on two continents, which I didn't know?!
The Bosphorus Strait lies between them, the different economic approaches evident in the architecture 🏘
Hammam Heaven
24 Oktober 2023, Turki ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Turkish Bathing 🛁
The best spa experience ever, physically and mentally, wonderful! I have already been looking if there are any 🇬🇧 .... London only 😔
Weaving Wonders
24 Oktober 2023, Turki ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
A visit to a live demonstration of a Turkish carpet being woven🧵
Woven from Wool, Cotton, or Silk, the time and cost increases in this order. Women are salaried $600 per month, with looms andBaca lagi
Islamic Istanbul
25 Oktober 2023, Turki ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
A walking tour aimed at improving visitors' understanding of Islam 🕋, an Arabic word for peace and submission, practising in line with 5 pillars:
(1) Shahadah (Testimony), which is theBaca lagi
Journeying by Night
26 Oktober 2023, Bulgaria ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C
Night 🚆 #1
Sadly leaving Istanbul, taking with me an itinerary for my future visit, I caught the sleeper train to make my way to Bulgaria 🇧🇬 on route through to Romania 🇷🇴
I haveBaca lagi
Walking Plovdiv
27 Oktober 2023, Bulgaria ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Plovdiv Pitstop
Kapana District was the most enjoyable with the shops, galleries café restaurants 😋
Training Day
28 Oktober 2023, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
🚉 # 18
It's official, I have started the journey home! Travelled from Varna to 🇷🇴... Transylvania 🧛♂️ during Halloween 🎃
The hostel was in full swing, so it would be rude not to join in 😁
Walking Bucharest
29 Oktober 2023, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Known as the City of Contrast, and you really can see why when you walk the streets... bringing week 8 to a close!
👣 138, 398....
Interesting Fact: They moved whole buildings to accommodateBaca lagi
Ceaușescu Communism
30 Oktober 2023, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Romania became a Communist Country in 1947, shortly afterwards establishing a concentration camp system in 1949.
The experiment of Pitești took place in the maximum-security prison
created toBaca lagi
Carol Park
30 Oktober 2023, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
First, lunch before heading to Carol Park! Warm enough to have the legs out in October! ☀️
Not Dracula's Castle
31 Oktober 2023, Romania ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Bran Castle is NOT Dracula's 🏰
In 1897, the Irish writer Bram Stoker gave the world an imaginary character that even today fascinates audiences from all over the world.
Dracula 🧛♂️ anBaca lagi
Sibiu Stop
1 November 2023, Romania
🚉 # 19
Sibiu was planned over as only a pitstop. However, the city was so beautiful 😍
After laundry, I went out for a wander and to eat more yummy traditional Romanian food 😋
Timişoara Train
2 November 2023, Romania ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
🚉 # 20
Finally, after a very slow journey, I arrived in Timişoara. Can't wait to explore the city by day!
But first, change then Gin🍸
Walking Timişoara
3 November 2023, Romania ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Self guided, I walked to understand the city sites. The rain did hold off🙏 but it was very windy!
Romanian Revolt
3 November 2023, Romania ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
In 1989, the beginning of the end for Communism began in Timişoara.
Trying to hold on to power, Ceaușescu ordered the army to fire on protestors... It did not stop the movement: other citiesBaca lagi
Budapest Bound
4 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C
🚉 # 21
Budapest... It was: find the hostel, food, and a quick turnaround to make a 3.30pm walking tour. It became too dark for 📸 😔
Ruin Bars! Once the site of the Jewish ghetto, theBaca lagi
House of Terror
5 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ 🌧 11 °C
Szimpla transformed into a food market on Sunday morning, as if by magic after the chaos of a Saturday Night 🪄 I stopped in for a cuppa and a pastry with a new friend before heading for the HouseBaca lagi
Jewish Quarter
5 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
In the afternoon, it was a visit to the Great Synagogue and Jewish Museum 🕍
Synagogues are places of worship, study, and community; for the living! Typically, burials are not permitted on theBaca lagi
St Stephen's Catherdral
5 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Last stop, the Catherdral ⛪️
It was Sunday Mass... 'Our greatness lies in being little.' I certainly felt little from the platform at the top of the Catherdral Dome 🤏
Szimpla
5 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
A random trip back to the Ruin Bar after being recommended the Jam night 🎸
Bringing Week 9 to an end, 105,761 👣
Walking Pest
6 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Divided by the Danube, I completed exploring Pest👣 with Soviet and WWII monuments (as it was too dark, for me at least, to 📸 on the walking tour), before heading to the Central Market for foodBaca lagi
Spa Sleeping
6 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
First stop, Gellert Baths 💦
Thermal bath in Budapest since 1918 in Art Nouveau style. My favourite part was the 40⁰ pool and a snooze 😴
I made up for it with a walk up to the Soviet LibertyBaca lagi
Memento Park
7 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
The ideological battle; the process of turning communist concepts
into practical reality and the events involved in creating and building
a proletariat state, presents a difficult task that very oftenBaca lagi
Walking Buda
7 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Funicular fun to get to the Castle, now a museum, before exploring the Bastion and admiring Matthias Church...⛪️
The view over the river was lovely... even on a cloudy day ⛅️
Danube Drifting
7 November 2023, Hungary ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
It was very dark and wet 🌧 but floating the Danube was still a pretty sight 😍
I realised that I need to learn how to use my actual camera 📷 better to take pictures at night 🤭

























































































































































































