And that's why I haven't posted anything for over a month!" is what I would have said to anybody asking why, as said I haven't posted in over a month. But it's not the case! In fact I was just incredibly busy/lazy/sleeping/traveling/forgetting I have a blog/and so on/ and so on.
So here is what happened in the past weeks.
Week-end in Athens! (13-16 November)
The lovely tiny greek girl that is our flatmate invited us to join her on her trip to her country! After having nearly missed our flight on friday morning we (Jochen, Vassia and me) arrived at Vassia's Brother's place. We found out about a new similarity that Turcs and Greeks share: sense of hospitality!
So we did some sightseeing, watched a M. C. Escher exhibition and had lots of good food!
Olympic stadium (the old one)
An Old temple (Zeus)
The Acropolis
The view from the Acropolis
Ouzo (The local Rakı)
From the top of Lycabettus Hill
5-day trip to the East! (27-29 November)
After having been ill for some days (nothing serious), and a mid term exam on Wednesday (nothing serious, got 90%) we (Jochen and me) left, or at least were supposed to leave on thursday, november 27th at 10 am. Our plan was to spend half a day in Kars then to go to Georgia and to Trabzon, in Turkey from where we would have come back to Istanbul by bus on Sunday night. Unfortunately, our flight from Istanbul to Kars was 6 hours late.
Time that we had to spend in the only place equipped with seat in the Sabiha Gökçen airport, Burger King! So we arrived in Kars in the early evening and after a very expensive (without sarcasm) cab-ride we arrive "downtown". We then went straight to a bus agency to check when buses to Georgia were leaving on friday... The answer was a bit annoying: there were none because of the holiday. We found a quite cheap and warm hotel, the temperature outside being close to -10°C.
On the next day spent half the day sightseeing, which means walking to the castle (closed because of the holiday) and having a look at an old armenian church.
the view from the Castle
Blood!!
Finally on saturday we managed to leave Kars. Neither to Georgia as initially planned because there were still no buses, nor to Hopa at the Georgia which was our backup plan. To stick with our plan to be back on monday noon we had to head to Trabzon at the black sea, passing through Erzurum. Even if we were a bit upset not being able to carry out our plan, we really enjoyed this bus trip.
On the bus from Kars to Erzurum
Erzurum
10 ours later we arrived in Trabzon and immediately purchased ticket for the bus on the next day (sunday) at 6 in the evening. On sunday we enjoyed the mild temperatures and the stunning view from Atatürk's Mansion.
Trabzon
Atatürk's Mansion
After an 18-hour bus trip we arrived back home and I still had some time to study for my exam!
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