Author: how_sven
First stop: Gjirokaster
The bus from Athens was long. Thankfully, though, I hadn’t slept much the night before which enabled me to sleep a lot on the bus. In Istanbul I know enou...
Resting up in Chania
I got to Athens around 7am and wandered around the Piraeus port looking for where to get a ticket to Chania, Crete, my next destination. I eventually found a ti...
Setting out: Raging fever and a plate of garlic
It was time to set out again. For the past month I’d been working at a kid’s camp up on mount Uludağ, about four hours from Istanbul. The university...
Fatura ödemeleri – paying my bills
Went and paid my gas and electricity bills the other day. Lord, what a nightmare it is anytime I need to go and pay my bills. When my parents were here we talke...
Mark the Artist
I’ve met a lot of people in my few years of traveling and feel like I’ve got more than enough characters to make up a pretty funny novel about meeti...