I travelled to Turkey with some friends on an overnight bus ride this past weekend, which took somewhere around ten hours. We had to buy a visa just to get in (which thankfully is far less work than getting a Greek visa… all I had to do this time was pay) but got to see a bit of Muslim [...]
Posts Tagged ‘bus’
2 Nov
Your Traveling Tourist
Today I passed some tourists and chuckled to myself. With their backpacks, guidebooks, and cameras I felt like a local compared to them. It’s when I open my mouth to try to buy something at the market that the real locals chuckle. I did end up walking away with what I wanted (cheese, chicken, prunes, [...]
1 Oct
Anyone have the time?
This morning I woke up several hours before my first class to head down to Aristotles Square for another meeting about the film festival. With no cell phone in service and a watch with a dead battery, I am at the grace of my roommate and her alarm clock. I woke up on time and got [...]
29 Sep
This and That
As you may have noticed, the rate of my blogs are far less than those when I was in China. Although it might seem a bit odd, I am constantly comparing Greece to China as opposed to the U.S. In this case, my stay here in Greece is three times as long as when I [...]
