Bloody 600 km from Sofia to Istanbul took me 14h. I travelled most of the way with a Turkish TIR driver. The thing is that he had to stop every few hours and also those huge trucks are not allowed to enter Istanbul before 10pm. The result was I arrived there after 10 and I was left at some shithole far away from the city centre. Istanbul is just unbelievably huge. It's said it's inhabited by 13mln people but together with those living there illegaly it can be 20mln as well. To get to the centre it took me over 1,5h with 2 busses. Most of that time travelling through dark streets of Turkish slums - overwhelming feeling. In Istanbul I was hosted by Ezgi, spent there one day. I don't know if I liked the city. First impression was "wow", interesting people, architecture, but then after some time you realize that that mosques don't differ from each other and everything is not so exceptional. Guess I'd have to spend a bit more to be able to say something more. For sure I hated one thing about Istanbul. Prices of most important things (beer and petrol) are very high. In a shop you have to pay about 3 liras ($2) for a beer, in a pub 6. Petrol prices reach 3,6 liras ($2,4) for 1l of PB98. WTF?!?
Next day I went to Bursa to visit my best friend from Erasmus in Greece. Spent whole day with him and his family. Great experience - very nice time, delicious food, but just one thing about it - if I stayed there for couple of weeks I would propably put on 10 or 20 kilos - there was so much of everything.
Next day I went to Bursa to visit my best friend from Erasmus in Greece. Spent whole day with him and his family. Great experience - very nice time, delicious food, but just one thing about it - if I stayed there for couple of weeks I would propably put on 10 or 20 kilos - there was so much of everything.
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