After two months in one place, I got itchy feet again. I was staying in my apartment in a small town of Byala on the Black Sea. Everything seemed fine. Morning swims in the sea, afternoon siestas, evenings with friends, and a couple of hours of freelancing as a translator each day may look like […]
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Thessaloniki Delphi is only 2.5 hours by bus from Athens. Many visitors do a day trip from there. But if you really want to enjoy Delphi it is better to stay in it overnight. I woke up to a misty morning. The hotel room overlooked the valley and the Gulf of Corinth. The view was
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Meteora, Greece Thessaloniki is the gateway to Halkidiki. One cannot get in and out without passing through it. The first time I visited the city was when Elina, my host in Greece, went there to run errands and she took me with her. I spent most of the day at her friends’ apartment and only
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Kalives, Greece A day trip to Meteora started from Thessaloniki at 8 a.m. and it took 12 hours. We traveled by bus in the typically unhurried Greek way with frequent stops for coffee. The first monks settled in the area in the 9th century. The lived in caves until the 14th century when the monk
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Bulgaria to Greece, October 2020 In summer, Kalives is a popular resort on the Aegean Sea. In October, it is a sleepy small village with the population of 1,600 people. Kalives is located in Halkidiki region between the two fingers (smaller peninsulas) of Kassandra and Sithonia, The third finger is the famous Holy Mount Athos,
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Green Bird Farm, Bulgaria, Sep-Oct 2020 My 90 days without a visa in Bulgaria were almost up. It was time to move. I thought long and hard about my next destination and chose Greece where the number of COVID-19 cases was low. The coronavirus made traveling really tricky. There were many factors to consider. What
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Green Bird Farm, August 2020 At the farm I went to the ostrich farm a few more times and finally met other volunteers there. Many who wanted to come this year had to cancel their plans because of the travel restrictions. So during my first 2 visits, I was the only volunteer there. The main
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Byala, Bulgaria, August 2020 It was one of the “idle days” when I thought that I should spend some of my free time on doing good deeds instead of lazing around. Googling volunteer opportunities came up with a new site workaway.info that I hadn’t seen before. Apparently, it is possible to volunteer almost anywhere in
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Belgrade, Serbia to Byala, Bulgaria The time in Byala is always pure enjoyment. It is not a kind of feverish excitement but a blissful relaxed state that comes from being surrounded by beauty and nature. The biggest part of it is of course the sea. I can see it from anywhere in my apartment and
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Denver to Amsterdam Passport control at the airport asked no usual questions about the purpose of my trip, length of stay and so on. I showed my Australian passport, got a stamp and was free to go. Serbia did not care. My driver met me outside of the airport. As I explained in the previous
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