http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/jmackey24/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from jmackey24 en-us Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:26:26 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:26:26 +0000 last day. sad.even worse after no sickness the entier time today i spent most of the day in the bathroom blah thats what i get for eating street meat i suppose. but kebaps are just too tasty to resistgot up this morning and headed to teh grand bazaar. CRAZY. huge place all covered in with stalls selling everything from 50 cent souvenirs to expensive jewellry. managed to buy a few things but http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-454146.html Forgot to mention last night that i went the coolest place yesterday afternoon. the basilica cistern. i cant spell that word. anyways back in i th305nk the 6th or 7th century they dug out this huge underground place and had aquaducts bring water from waaay out of town to this place. it was eventually forgotten about and then a couple hundred years ago it was discovered that people were dropping http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-453943.html well i have to say overnight buses are not so fun. started out from selcuk at 915 and arrived in istanbul around 7. 2 hours of broken sleep is not enough although i was pleasantly surprised by getting on a half empty bus so i had a free seat next to me for stretching out. and they have seatback tvs on the bus unfortunately it was all in turkish. i watched a bit of the simpsons movie in turkish http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Marmara/Istanbul/blog-453676.html What a day Best day ever.got up around 8 and got a shower. with HOT water this time. much better even if it was just a trickle. a quick hostel breakfast packed up my bags to leave at the pension family run hotel and went to get my motor scooterbike. i hate calling it a scooter sounds like something for a 2 year old. hahaanyways got the scooter no trouble from a nice man everyone in turkey http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Sel-uk/blog-453162.html i find myself less and less motivated to do the blog as time goes on but since im mostly doing it for myself so i can have a record later i shall press on.did some more reading last night before early sleep since it was pouring rain on and off. picked up some cheap jules verne in 304zmir and have made it through journey to the centre of the earth and around the world in 80 days. i was pleasantl http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Sel-uk/blog-452929.html Finished off another book last night before bed and passed out. good sleeping altho lots of dreams. one i was working at mcdonalds again. so weird.anyways got up this morning and had hotel breakfast. bread hard boiled eggs fresh OJ prepacked cake. not too bad. checked out of the hotel and they didnt seem to notice i made a couple of calls to canada and i forgot to mention it. haha they dont hav http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Sel-uk/blog-452661.html 304 love turkeyso after supper last night i just went to bed and read and watched a little bbc world before bed only station of 20 in english.slept in a bit this morning and then headed out to see some sights in 304zmir.The waterfront is beautiful. Lined with cafes and restaurants too expensive for my taste heh lots of people around to watch. There are a couple of nice squares along http://www.travelblog.org/Middle-East/Turkey/Aegean/Izmir/blog-452473.html I'm 305n as305a and the keyboard 305s crazy so bear w305th meno troubles w305th the fl305ght today. on t305me and got a full row of three seats to myself. unt305l th305s l305ttle boy who d305dnt speak engl305sh came up and sat w305th me and we played w305th the seatbelts a305r cond305t305on305ng vents window shades tray tables etc. one prob http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/blog-452257.html well i managed to get a few more hours sleep after on sunday night and got up around 8 zesterdaz morning. was going to salyburg for the daz but since i wanted to g oon the cheap bavaria card 20euro return vs 29euro each waz for better trains i had to wait until after 900 to go. so i got up showered and had hostel breakfast. buffet with cereal with cold milk bread jams ham and salami and c http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-452141.html mmm had zummz polish food last night at the hostel for free. sausages and onions bean and sausage soup some weird kind of boiled eggs with the zolks taken out and mixed with something tasted and put back in. there was beet soup too but i passed on that. potatoes with some sort of garlic sauce... then just lazed around watching kill bill for a little while before packing up and heading to bed.ha http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Bavaria/Munich/blog-451793.html no entry last night i was busy socializing but i'llg et to that in a minute. this is gonna be a long one so prepare yourselves.night before last just hung out went for a walk nothing too exciting and went ot bed kidna early as usual. got up before 7 so i could shower and get ready to catch the 800 express train to warsaw for the day. 3 hours each way makes for a long day trip but ir eally wante http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-451417.html well things are just moving along nicely. got to teh train station an hour early last night enough time to scope out where i was going buy some 50 off pastries for the ride and relax for a few minutes. so they didn't put the platform number up on the sign until about 15 mins before teh train was leaving. i head out to platform 2 and try to figure out where wagon 354 is. i go one way adn find http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-450988.html well i managed to get another couple of hours sleep early this morning before breakfast. went back to bed around 430 till about 7. i am going to be messed up for the next few days but at least i got lots of sleep last night before what i presume will be a pretty sleepless night tonight. had the breakfast at the hotel again and as usual stuffed myself and my manbag with pastries.anyways pack http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-450737.html Went to bed early as promised last night as usual. was thinking that a hotel would provide calming quiet compared to a hostel... well it was better altho every time someone in the room above me walks on teh floor turns on a tap or shower it soundsl ike they're doing it in my room. i think they left a fwe layers out of the ceilingfloor...anyways got up at the crack of dawn today sincei was in http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-450576.html well i didnt do anything after last night just finished up my laundry back up to 4 days of clean clothes and packed everything up for my 830 train this morning. thought i was getting some payback on my roommates by getting up at 630 but they got up a few mins later to catch a flight. oh well.caught the subway one stop the train 3 stops and i was an hour early for my train. so i had a bacon an http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Czech-Republic/Prague/blog-450239.html yzanother busz busz daz. and cold. brrr reallz frostz this morning and onlz about 5 degrees this afternoon. had mz coat and sweater and hat and mitts on. wish i had brought mz long underwear reallzwent to bed around 1030 last night after figuring out how to get to potsdam. however stupid roommates... 2 of them came in around 1230 and were messing around about a half hour. then around 3 the oth http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-449979.html Happz Halloweeny and z are switched. ugh.Anzwazs didnt bother with an entrz last night just a boring travel daz. other than almost missing the train. haha it was leaving from the zuid south station instead of the main station and i didnt exactlz research how to go about getting there beforehand. sillz me. but i made it with time to stop to grab a bacon and egg sandwich and some pringles for http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-449737.html After a long couple of days I'm here and ready.No trouble with the flights got the exit row from st johns to new york then a row of two seats to myself on the overnight. beef and potatoes for supper no idea what flavor it was supposed to be. i actually slept for about 5 hours when i woke up 'breakfast' a puny croissant and 10 grapes was already over but they left it on the seat next to me wh http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Netherlands/North-Holland/Amsterdam/blog-449153.html well this is it. 4 weeks sure did fly i cant believe im going home tomorrow. so last night after internet i headed up to bed. it was quiet only one other person in and he was also going to bed. then the crowd descended 6 people came in to hang out i was a little rotted at first but then decided not to be such an idiot and got up and joined them. i'm terrible with names but theres sabrina and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-375953.html well last night i went upstairs read my stupid book for a while then passed out early even for me around 830. wasnt too noisy i'm not even sure what time the rest of the crowd came back altho i did hear something around 2....anyways got up early this morning and woke up the whole room and didnt feel bad one bit but i did good and before i went to bed had my towel soapshampoo and chan http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-375629.html