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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Denver, USA to Europe, July 2020 My one-way ticket Denver – Dallas- Amsterdam – Belgrade on American Airlines was $600. It was for Wednesday, 22nd of July, which was only 4 days away. I intentionally bought it for the next cheap flight to have more chances to leave as planned. The tickets to and from
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“Travel, which is nearly always seen as an attempt to escape from the ego, is in my opinion the opposite. Nothing induces concentration or inspires memory like an alien landscape of a foreign culture. It is simply not possible (as romantics think) to lose yourself in an exotic place. Much more likely is an experience
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The Tower of London The following day, Monday, was rather chaotic and fruitless. The protests demanding justice for the killed British teenager continued. Streets in the City were blocked by the demonstrators; all traffic was disrupted, the Big Buses did not follow their scheduled routes. After two hours of going around the already familiar places
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Sherlock Holmes museum Getting to the Tower from Sherlock Holmes museum required me to take two different Big Buses. Because each route only goes in one direction, I traveled through the same streets again and did not mind that in the least. The rain ceased for a while and I even managed to snap pictures
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London (continued) The previous day was all walking which is not the most effective way of getting around the big city like London. I considered two options: public transport and hop-on & off sightseeing buses intended for tourists. The tube and city buses looked more expensive and time consuming. Out of several hop on/off buses,
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London It drizzled in the morning. London was exactly the way I imagined it – wet pavement and grey skies (that’s the appropriate spelling when in Britain). The plan for the day was to explore the city on foot. So I headed straight for Hyde Park. It was Saturday and London was having a 2-day
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Norway 2019 Believe it or not, but I never visited London before. I, who have traveled to 85 countries so far, could not find time for one of the most popular cities in the world. I mean I was in England but not London. Heathrow airport was my regular place for changing planes when flying
