I woke up around 830am and I took a shower. Celine and I went all over the medina. When we started out we were a little hungry and Celine introduced me to fruit cocktails. It is quite similar to a smoothie, the one that we had was a made from banana and I think they put dates and crushed cashew and almond as well and they top it up with a few banana slices and honey. It tasted fantastic and it cost less than a dinar. I think I can just live on them. By the time we had that it [View Full Entry]

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Woke up around 9am; I had not done any of my packing and my room was in an utter mess. I also had to go to the bank because I have been busy working double shifts to payback days my colleagues have been working for me. I had a cup of green tea which I had drunk a few days ago and the cup was still beside my bed and the green tea leaves were still there with mold growing inside. After having breakfast and packing my bags I had to make a series of phone calls to my grandfather, mother [View Full Entry]

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Woke up around 730am, took a shower and had breakfast. Finished the rest of the bread and cheese spread. Told the lady at the counter that we were checking out and left my bag under the staircase which is where people keep their backpacks at their own risk. The beauty of my backpack is I don't care if anyone steals because I don't have anything worthwhile apart from my clothes which I am not too bothered about. We took a bus to Trakai and we walked towards the Trakai palace. En-route we passed some really cute wooden houses. The Trakai palace [View Full Entry]

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J has this strange rule where you are not supposed to talk to her until she talks to you in the morning; approximately 20minutes after waking up. Apparently the rule applies to her family too... I woke up around 0640am, J was already up and she spoke to me. She had obviously woken up earlier and had already been through her hibernation period. We were taking the 0815am train to Vilnius. So had to take the bus from J's place at 0737am to the train station Kaunas 1. The train time Kaunas-Vilnius was about 1hr 50mins and it costs about 13.5 [View Full Entry]

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I finished work at 11pm on the 26 Aug, got home around 1130pm took a shower and I find my housemate Allan watching TV saying he cannot sleep. I had cooked some mushrooms the previous day so I finished the remainder with some bread and finished the yogurt that was remaining too. It amazes me how lazy the people in my house are. The bin was full and overflowing the previous day; but somehow people have managed to shove more stuff into it despite it full. I put a new garbage bag had a chat with Allan and went back to [View Full Entry]

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The bus got into Skopje at 545am. I had to change bus and the bus to Ohrid left just pass 6am. Got into Ohrid at 945am. At the bus station an elderly gentleman asked me if I was looking for accommodation and I said yes. He was riding a bicycle so we walked to his house which was a 10 minute walk from the bus station. He said he can give me a room with an attached bathroom for Euros 15 per night and a room without an attached toilet for Euro 15 a night. Vesna from Belgrade told me I [View Full Entry]

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Woke up around 11am and got dressed as some of Vesna’s couch surfing friends had organised a picnic in a nearby mountain called Avala. Here's a short history of mount Avala from Wikipedia... Start Avala is the mountain overlooking the city of Belgrade, Serbia, situated in the south-eastern corner of the city and offering a great panoramic view. It stands at 511 metres (1,677 ft) above sea level. The name "Avala" comes from the Arabic word havala, which means "pretty view". In the Middle Ages, the town of rnov was located on Avala. The mountain has been protected since 1859. T [View Full Entry]

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I woke up around 7am but went back to sleep and woke up around 1130am. The girls Natasha, Ivana and Jelena were still asleep. Ones the girl’s woke up it was breakfast time. Ivana wanted to go to the market near her flat to get food stuff. I went with her and I bought some onions, bread, eggs and some chillie powder. After we got back, I made some “Seeni Sambol” essentially fried onions with some sugar and fried some eggs. It was nice to have some Sri Lankan food. I really miss it. After breakfast, Jelena went back to her [View Full Entry]

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Woke up at 0715 and stayed in my couch till 0730 until the alarm went. Thereafter took a shower and got ready. I left with Vesna (Vecky), she went to work and I went to the bus station to go to Novi Sad. Novi Sad is the capital city of an Autonomous Province in Northern Serbia called Vojvodina. Similar to Kosovo the difference being that in Vojvodina the people are not asking for an independent state. The return ticket to Novi Sad was quite expensive at 760 Dinars. I think there was something wrong but didn't argue as I couldn't speak [View Full Entry]

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Woke up at 7am showered, had breakfast and left Ves's house at 8am. When I got to the tram almost immediately there was tram No. 7 to the main bus station. Fortunately it was one of the old trams that you can buy a ticket from the driver. People as usual do look at you because clearly I don't look like one of them. Got to the bus station at 0840. The bus leaves Zagreb at 0900 and it takes 6 hours. I was hoping to find an internet cafe to download and print Natasa's invitation letter but had no luck [View Full Entry]

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