Sailing The Bosphorus
23 октября 2023 г., Турция ⋅ ☁️ 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 октября 2023 г., Турция ⋅ ☀️ 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 октября 2023 г., Турция ⋅ ⛅ 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 andЧитать далее
ПутешественникDid they try to sell you one? That’s usually the culmination of weaving demonstrations.
ПутешественникNo, they didn't. It was really comfortable and well done 🥰 of course gave us their details if we wanted to purchase but no pressure at all!
Islamic Istanbul
25 октября 2023 г., Турция ⋅ ☁️ 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 theЧитать далее
Journeying by Night
26 октября 2023 г., Болгария ⋅ ☁️ 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 haveЧитать далее
Walking Plovdiv
27 октября 2023 г., Болгария ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Plovdiv Pitstop
Kapana District was the most enjoyable with the shops, galleries café restaurants 😋
Training Day
28 октября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ☀️ 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 октября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ☀️ 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 accommodateЧитать далее
Ceaușescu Communism
30 октября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ☀️ 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 toЧитать далее
ПутешественникIt’ll be interesting to compare to the GDR museum in Berlin.
ПутешественникGDR / DDR - it’s a museum for the old East Germany (German Democratic Republic/ Deutsche Demokratische Republik) - it’s by the river behind the cathedral in Berlin.
Carol Park
30 октября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
First, lunch before heading to Carol Park! Warm enough to have the legs out in October! ☀️
Not Dracula's Castle
31 октября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ☀️ 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 🧛♂️ anЧитать далее
Sibiu Stop
1 ноября 2023 г., Румыния
🚉 # 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 ноября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ ⛅ 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 ноября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
Self guided, I walked to understand the city sites. The rain did hold off🙏 but it was very windy!
Romanian Revolt
3 ноября 2023 г., Румыния ⋅ 🌬 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 citiesЧитать далее
Budapest Bound
4 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ☁️ 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, theЧитать далее
House of Terror
5 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ 🌧 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 HouseЧитать далее
Jewish Quarter
5 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ⛅ 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 theЧитать далее
St Stephen's Catherdral
5 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ 🌙 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 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ 🌙 8 °C
A random trip back to the Ruin Bar after being recommended the Jam night 🎸
Bringing Week 9 to an end, 105,761 👣
ПутешественникI didn’t miss bonfire night at all - guess you didn’t either!
Walking Pest
6 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ☀️ 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 foodЧитать далее
Spa Sleeping
6 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ⛅ 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 LibertyЧитать далее
Memento Park
7 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ⛅ 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 oftenЧитать далее
Walking Buda
7 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ⛅ 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 ноября 2023 г., Венгрия ⋅ ☁️ 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 🤭
ПутешественникFor those type of photos you need to 1. Increase the ISO to around 3200 2. Stop down by about 2/3 of a stop and expose for the (high)lights. You can do both those things in “P” mode. That will leave the images a bit dark overall, but the highlights won’t be blown out. You can then raise the shadows in software.