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Day 59 and 60 One Stop, Two Shop, New Mosque, Blue Mosque

The Europe Istanbul from the ferry.Hello! My abominable Dr. Seuss parody attempts non-withstanding, I´m good! I spent all day with Annika wandering around the Grand Bazaar before getting fed up with...

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Day 61 & 62 Cappadocia East-Asian Style

Hey Back Home!My bunk at the Nirvana Cave Hostel.Woah! Cappadocia is incredibly beautiful, full of rocky nooks and crannies you can get lost in... or sleep in as the case was with my hostel! The bus...

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Day 63 Fresh Tracks in Anatolia

It’s OFFICIAL – 2 full months travelling, and I’m closer to the finish line than my starting point!the Pamukkale travertines.Pamukkale is amazing! David and I checked into the Mustafa Hotel, definitely...

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Day 64 Ephesus in Good Company

I woke up this morning pretty refreshed, having spent last night updating and watching True Grit. Our bus was at 9:15, so we packed up, paid our tab and headed out. The bus was just little this time,...

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Day 65 Bodrum Blues

By blues I mean the gorgeous colour of the ocean and the name our our amazing hotel, Blu! My mood is far from, as it turns out that my journal, which I left on last night's bus, has been tracked down,...

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Day 66 and 67 Out of Turkey and Into the Breach

Well I´m off, I have reached Poland, and Krakow starts my sprint to the finish - literally sprint. I am hitting about 25 cities in just over 50 days, wawawewah!I arrived from Bodrum to the Old City...

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Day 69 Krakow and Auschwitz

Hey folks, this one is pretty much going to sound like I wrote it as two different people... I'm here as a tourist, but I've also been made a witness to the horrors of the holocaust, and it is pretty...

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Day 70 Pushin' on Prague

I keep trying to get away from all the alliterative post titles, but they're just so darn catchy you'll all have to stick with me!Can you imagine this between Can and US?The "border" into the Czech...

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Day 72 Hooplahs, Daring Feats and Time Travel

woah, I can't believe how much I've done in the past 3 days... I've barely had time to breathe let alone write a  blog, but I'm sitting now and I have a second, so I'll update the crew!So Kaja came to...

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Day 74 Getting Caught Up and Getting Ready to Leave

Hey again everyone!The next morning we were up and at 'em, catching the 9:15 train into Prague in order to make it in time for the free walking tour leaving from Sir Toby's. Harry had to bail in order...

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Day 75 Lennon Remembered and Bratislava Discovered

Ahoj! (Czech for 'hello'!)We left Kaja's house pretty late after bumming around all day in our pjs. It was awfully nice to just chill though, recharge and feel at home for a little while. Hostels are...

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Day 77 Very Quick Vienna and Breezing Through Bratislava

Hey again, I'm using the wifi on the bus!Making horsie friends!We woke up pretty early in order to get to Vienna and see everything. It’s a big city and full of so much history, so we needed as much...

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Day 78 Retoxing

Hey again, I'm seriously hungover as I write this post, but I'll try and make it awesome anyways...Group of Legends. Me, Kyle, Westie,Paul, and Ben!Shannon and Paul in the background. Walking around...

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Day 81 Liver Failure

Hey again! It's been a crazy couple nights, but I'm going to give you the highlights! Later on today a ton of us are hitting up a free walking tour, so that should teach me a little more about the...

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Day 82 What I Learned in Hungary

Hey all! I’m writing this from Berlin, but since so much has happened since I updated, I decided to pre-date it so as to keep things simple!We made the same mistake as we had in Bratislava... forgot...

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Day 84 The Party Comes to a Pause... After I Tell You the Rest OftheCrazy!

Alrighty, this post should take me to the end of my crazy days in Budapest, and I’ll try to keep it short and sweet to get you caught up on my adventures!Marco (the Giant) having to drink the...

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Day 87 Berghain and Berlin

So! I’m on a roll here, at this rate I’ll be all caught up before I leave Berlin on my midnight bus! I’m thinking that I’ll do a final post before I’m done with this trip about the stats and cost of...

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Day 89 Halloween Hungarian Style

Hey guys! I've got a lot to get through, I've been really busy since my last blog post! I realized how little time I have before I head to Greece to meet my Mom and Aunt, so I need to move quickly! I...

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Day 92 Slightly Serbian, Briefly Bosnian

So I said my goodbyes at Retox, and I waited for the bus at a sketchy road sign as instructed. The day was gray, and as I sheltered on a stoop nearby, I saw another backpacker navigating the puddles...

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Day 96 One-Hundred and One Dalmatian Coasts

Actually guys, there's really only one... sorry to disappoint those who've been here and know how amazing it would be to have places like this scattered everywhere.I left Mostar on a rainy day, and...

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Day 97 Pleasantly Surprised By Zagreb

Hey again! Wow, I keep falling wildly behind here, but I promise to get this sucker up to date again!So I left Dubrovnik and made my way to Zagreb on another overnight winner. The bus rides are getting...

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Day 99 Ljubljana the Hard Hitter, and Off to Italy

Well I had no expectations about Slovenia at all. I really hadn't planned to go there in the first place, and only made the trip as a connecting city to Italy, as I really wanted to get to Venice. A...

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Day 102 Northern Italy and Old Floating Venice

The culprits of Davide's shortened night.So my hundredth day out here passed without much fanfare, but I did spend it in the company of Davide, so Montreal homesickness was a certainty. We found...

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Day 104 Roma Caput Mundi

I got a full day of sightseeing in right off the bat. I knew I wanted to spend some time one of my days in Rome lounging around, doing (much needed) laundry) and essentially being a bum. The kind of...

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Day 106 Vatican City and Villa Borghese

Thank God for low season!I went down to the Vatican today, and luckily there were no lines, no waiting whatsoever! And this at a place famed for how busy it gets. If you're going to be there in the...

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