Archive for 'Europe'
Slovakia - Beer and ducks
I had a couple of days in Kosice; the second largest city in Slovakia. The city is really pretty and has a very calm feel to it.
The streets look pretty deserted making you wonder where all the people are. When you decide to go for a meal you quickly find out; all the Slovaks are [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Europe.
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Arbeit macht frei - thoughts from Poland
So I arrived in Poland with no plans or time scale and armed with my lonely planet. Getting to Krakow centre from the airport was easy, buses going about every 30 mins. I thought it would be easy to get somewhere to sleep, flicked through the lonely planet, found a place, full up, I repeated [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Europe.
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John Lennon is my guardian
John looked after my bags last night.
So i was flying from John Lennon airport (motto ‘above us only sky’) to Pope John paul II airport. No prizes for guessing where these two airports are!
Anyway due to train bus connecxtions i had to do an overnighter at the john lennon airport, so i dossed down on [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Europe.
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Mosque beats traffic in battle of the wails
I’m currently in Istanbul (leave tomorrow evening to Denizli). It’s a real cool city, East meets west and all of that. I strolled down from the Bazaar area towards the blue mosque at about noon. Near to me, the mosques seem to be just a couple of hundred metres apart. As I walked I was [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Asia, Europe.
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