A Whistle Stop Tour of the Balkans
September 9th 2013 After a long bus ride from south-eastern Turkey I arrived in Istanbul to meet up with a friend from university and a friend that I worked with in Vietnam. We had decided to travel through Eastern Europe across to Budapest, starting off in Istanbul - a city that epitomises 'East meets West' in every way. It’s where the Asian continental plate meets the European plate - crossing the Bospho
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