March 30, 2011

Finally an adventure. From Cappadocia I wanted to get to Dogubayazit (Eastern border of Turkey) but I didn't succeed. In Sivas I met an interesting guy from Lithuania, who has been traveling for 13 months around Europe. His record - 57 000 km hitchhiked during one year. From Sivas we caught a lift together to  Erzurum. The drivers who gave us a lift demanded money for their "hospitality". Unsuccessfully, though it was a little nervous. Then other guys invited us for a kebab and promised to help in finding an accommodation. But instead they brought us to the police. Before we entered the police office a shopkeeper nearby saved us, by inviting us inside his shop. He gave us tea, and asked to read muslim books. Then his countrymen came and took us to their house, gave us dinner and beds to sleep. 

March 5, 2011

Today at 7AM  I managed to reach the first host on Couchsurfing.org in Budapest - the total duration for the trip from Krakow was about 19h. The delay was caused by a conductor parcel with my cell phone in it which was sent to me from Warsaw. I picked it up yesterday morning  Perhaps the cell will be useful if I intend to use Couchsurfing.

Traffic on the Polish-Slovakian border and Slovak-Hungarian was very poor. Travel fever is still strong  especially at the beginning of the voyage. A thought crosses my mind, that actually I am a housebird, and I miss the warm quilt:) Especially at midnight on an empty gas station (I was about 30km north from Budapest). 

March 2, 2011

Finally I left. It was hard to make the 1st step. I had a very strong "travel fever", seeing very precisely every, absolutely every argument not to go, and all the advantages of setting off were blending. I hoped that something would happen what would make me stay at home. But nothing happened and the trip began with a slight delay. First stop - Krakow, where thanks to the hospitality of a friend of mine I could recover from the daze that I succeeded in making the first step:)