Saturday, July 11, 2015
Second Life - A Trip Summary
Travelling on your own, as I do now, means you meet a lot of people. If you feel like it that is. And even in fact when you don't feel like it. As it was when I meet a French guy, I don't even know his name, in the bar at Bari Train Station. We sat at the same table, there was nowhere else free. We talked a bit, while grabbing a coffee before trains, but at one point he said something that hasn't left my brain. "You don't drink, you don't smoke. What do you do?"
An intrusive question you might think over a quick cup of coffee but I thought how sharp to spot these things after 5 minutes. And I remember he interested me because he told me he was catching a boat to Bar in Montenegro, a country that has always intriged me. Black Mountain.
Anyway, I have turned over his phase many times in my mind trying to really work out what he meant. What do you do for thrills, for enjoyment, for fun? And I stil haven't come up with a adequate answer.
So a summary of my trips. In the last 3 and a half years I have visited approx 28 countries, ok that includes a few islands (Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Rhodes) and Kuala Lumpur, in Mayalsia where I failed to leave the airport but you get the drift.
During my Second Life, as I term it, I have taken 7 trips with each one being longer than the last and have seen the following places:
TRIP 1 (Summer 2012) (6 hotels, 14 nights)
Rumania - a tour by carBucharest, Piteşti, Sibiu, Sighișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Gura Humorului, Brasov
TRIP 2 (Xmas 2012) (6 hotels, 18 days)
MaltaValletta,
Sicily (car tour)
Syracuse, Messina,
Italy(car tour)
Altomonte, Lecce, Bari
Albania
Durres, Tirana,
TRIP 3 (Summer 2013) (12 hotels, 21 days)
Italy Pisa, BrindisiGreece
Patras, Olympia, Sparta, Areopolis, Nafplio, Mycenae, Athens, Delpi, Thermopylae,
Bulgaria
Sofia, Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, Plovdiv, Bansko,
TRIP 4 (Winter 2013) (7 hotels, 21 days)
Italy Pisa, Livorno,Corsica
Bastia, Ajaccio,
Sardinia
Cagliari,
Crete
Heraklion,
Rhodes
Rhodes,
Turkey
Istanbul,
Lebanon
Beirut.
TRIP 5 (Summer 2014) (16 hotels/bnb, 31 days)
Greece Rhodes
Turkey - Antalya, Fetiyah, Selcuk, Izmir, Canakkale, Edirne, Istanbul, (car tour)
Ukraine - L'viv
Poland - Gdansk, Torun, Wroclaw, Krakow, Warsaw (car tour)
Serbia - Belgrade
Greece - Athens
TRIP 6 (Winter 2014) (16 hotels, 32 nights)
Hong Kong - Hong KongVietnam - Hanoi, Saigon
Cambodia - Phnom Penh, Siem Reap
Singapore - Singapore
Australia - Sydney, Melbourne
New Zealand - Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Greymouth, Wanaka, Te Anau, Dunedin (car tour)
Malaysia - Kula Lumpur
Turkey - Istanbul
TRIP 7 (Summer 2015) (xx hotels, xx nights)
Norway - Oslo, Bergen, Bodo (car tour)
Sweden - Stockholm
Denmark - Copenhagen
Turkey - Gazientep, Santilufa, Dyfarbakir, Van, Kars, Erzumrum, Trabzon (car tour)
Macedonia - Skopje, Lake Ophid, Prilep (car tour)
Georgia - Tbilisi
Armenia - Yerevan, Yeghaghor, Goris (car tour)
Greece - Athens
TRIP 8 (Winter 2015) (xx hotels, xx nights)
Brazil- San Paolo
Chile- Santiago, Punto Arenas, Ushasia
The Falklands -Port Stanley
Argentina - Buenos Aires, Igauzu
Uruguay - Colonia
TRIP 9 (Summer 2016) (19 countries, 21 hotels, 48 nights)
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2012 - Rumania, Malta, Sicily, Italy - (4 countries, 3 new)
2013 - Italy, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Rhodes - (8 countries, 7 new)
2014 - Lebanon, Rhodes, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, Serbia, Greece, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Australia - (12 countries, 9 new)
2015 - Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Turkey, Macedonia, Georgia, Armenia, Greece, Brazil, Chile, The Falklands- (17 countries, 11 new)
2016 -Argentina, Uruguay, Finland,
15 days in Rumania (1 country)
xx in Malta, Sicily, Italy, Albania (3 countries, 2 islands)
xx in Greece and Bulgaria (2)
xx in Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Crete, Rhodes, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon ( 5 countries, 4 islands)
xx in Turkey, Poland, Ukraine, Serbia(4)
xx in Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Turkey (8)
So 7 countries, 6 islands, 39 Towns/Cities of which 31 I had stayed in . So 31 hotels, in fact 35 hotels because I've had two in Sofia and Heraklion and three in Athens.
Eleven airports abroad and 7 ports.
// posted by daniel @ 5:12 pm 
