At Home

I found place to live in last Tuesday and I moved in last Wednesday. That is the view I enjoy everyday with my flatmates. I share the flat with 5 other people and the neighbours are also mainly Erasmus students! I also learned what hospitality means in this country, when the family that lives in the flat next to ours invited us all to have Turkish coffee yesterday!

The neighbourhood we live in is called Kustepe, which means "Bird Hill". No pictures from the inside of the flat now as it still is quite empty but as soon as it get more lively you will get some.

First Night in Istanbul

Well, finally I manage to upload some picture. They are in reverse order but I can't do better right now. The small boat is where I got my fish sandwich. The rest is between Sultanahmet and the Galata tower.
Today I slept late then spent the afternoon walking through the city. Picures about that later

The One with 3 flights within 4 days

I am at the airport in Budapest and found a bit of Wifi and have an our before my plane boards so I can tell you about what I remember of my 12 our transfer in the uk and my 2-day stay in Budapest.

Basel - London
As you know I left Basel (very cloudy, as youn can see on the picuture) on Thursday afternoon and landed in London Stansted after a bit more than an hour. After a couple of Ales in several pubs and an interesting chicken pie, it was time for bed cause we had to get up at 5:30 on Friday...


London - Budapest
That is what I remember of the road from Smallford to Luton
Budapest
When I arrived (like an hour late) it was like 10°C warmer than when I left Bartenheim on thurday! I followed Martins instruction and somehow managed to find him as well as Benjamin, Romain and Samuel!
We had some local (chinese) food then walked randomly through the city to find a place to drink some coffee, which we didn't! A fresh beer was a better choice for such a warm late summer afternoon. Then the usual: cooking pasta, meeting other erasmus guys at Martin and Romain's place then going to the "Living room", A noisy bar/club. A nice night out with lots of fun and stories I cannot tell about here!













































On Saturday, we spent the afternoon at the Gellert hotel baths which is like the best thing if you have a massive hangover.( photos will come later they are still on the camera).

Well, I board in 10 minutes. More news/pictures later!!... and from Istanbul

Prologue

Introduction
Well, this is my blog. Didn't have one when I was 14 so I use this particular moment to be modern and cool. I will try to give you lots of news about me during my trip to Istanbul. As you may know, I go there to study civil engineering. Building and stuff, you know.
This will be my last semester of courses and I will not lie straight into your eye, I hope I will not have to study too hard. Of course I really like the stuff I study I enjoy learning funny engineer things but to me this trip is more about meeting a new country, new people and a new Continent!... Asia man!! yeah! Maybe I will party a bit (haha), too, who knows!
This is the first time I write a Blog so I am not quite used to all the crap it involves. I will do my best to keep it up to date!

Language
As I hope to be read by a broad selection on very cool people throughout the world, I will start to write in the most universal language I know, so far. Sorry bros, I don't mean Elsassisch... I think I will do most of my posts in English. However, now and then I might feel lazy and post in another language, or not at all!

Pictures

On my trip, 3 of my close friends will be on my side. Of course, I mean cameras. why 3? well... f...k you!

• The first in order of age, but the last I bought is a canon AE-1 program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_AE-1_Program). I used to own one of these for a couple of year but dramatically (stupidly would some say) lost it in York (uk) as some of you may know. Some weeks ago I puchased a new (used) one thanks to my brother. I know I still owe you 20€. I like this camera because it's the one I learned to take photographs with and it's easy to use and very handy. I use it with the original 50 mm lens. The tele has to stay at home for now because my luggage is allready too heavy.
  
• The Second one is a canon eos 5 film camera (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_5). It's a semi-profesionnal film camera from the 90s. quite tough and reasonnably easy to use (like, eeh, even drunk). It's a very cool thing and less bulky than the eos 50D.
• Something weird happened last July... I bought a canon eos 50D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_50D). As you probably know, the D means I am weak naughty-naughty slave of progress and I should be stoned and slaped in the face with a rolleiflex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolleiflex). Well, luckily for you, the D also means I will be able to put some pictures online! nice eh?!

The day after two days before I take off

Ok. Here I am. That is officially the first Post. Tomorrow, at 15:45 my plane will take off from the Euroairport Basel-Mulhouse for what is a quite twisted start for my trip. In fact, I fly to London(STN). "What the fuck", must you be wondering. again: f...k you! I promised to some cock-heads in Budapest that I would visit them on my way to Turkey. With my known talent for planning stuff loooong in advance I failed in my plans to do all that by train like in the old Orient-Express times. Instead, like a 2010 low-cost-airline-using bastard, I fly from basel to Budapest with a stop in London where I will see my brother who I haven't seen in a loooooooong time (Monday Sept. 14).
So, that it for tonight. No pictures now, the photo stuff is allready in the bag.
I miss most of you ;-)
More later!