This has been a good day. I mostly wandered the streets of Plovdiv, occasionally spending some time in a church or antique store. I bought myself an old Soviet 35mm camera for 10 leva (a Lomo Smena 8M, if anyone cares), but don’t have any film yet. Can’t find B&W and I don’t like colour [...]
After a three-hour delay, sitting on the tracks, I arrived in Sofia. The journey there had been amazing – snow-capped mountains, green fields, meadows filled with flowers and dairy cows, the odd goat or donkey, poppy fields. I had no idea what to expect from Bulgaria, my first stop in the conglomerate mass known as [...]
We made the most of our last day in Athens. A wander through the markets yielded enough fresh food to feed a small army, and after an hour or so of slicing and packing, we headed to Lyceabattus Hill with a sunset picnic in mind. Laura (Canada), Isobel (Sydney), Samantha (Melbourne), Martin and Charlotte (Perth), [...]
Missed a train to Thessaloníki this morning. Partied a little too hard. Oops.
I seem to have lost a few days somewhere. I arrived in Athens on the morning of the 28th or 29th, made it to my hostel, and then suddenly came down with a fever which knocked me down for about 18 hours. I was more than a little worried, having spent a small amount of [...]