Category: Europe
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ISTANBUL – TÜRKIYE (#2)
22/7/23 – 23/7/23 Thanks to my British passport, I can get visa-free entry into Turkey, saving me the $90 e-Visa fee I had to pay last time when I only had my Australian one! After navigating through the long, Uzbek-filled immigration queue (flights from Samarkand and Tashkent had both arrived within 30 minutes of each…
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SOFIA – BULGARIA
21/7/2023 – 22/7/2023 A flight delay meant that I eventually landed in Sofia Airport just a touch after midnight, narrowly missing the last metro train into the city. Taxi it is, then! Luckily, this didn’t set me back too much! Bulgaria’s currency, the lev, is pegged at just under 2 to 1 with the Euro,…
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NAPOLI – ITALY
20/7/23 Getting from Nice, in the south of France, to Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, proved to be an interesting exercise in lacing together flights from two of Europe’s prominent ultra-low cost carriers, Ryanair and EasyJet. What it created, however, was an opportunity for me to spend a day in Naples, and a perfect chance to stuff…
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TATEV – ARMENIA
1/7/2023 The Tatev Monastery and the Wings of Tatev ropeway seems to pretty universally considered an integral part of an Armenian itinerary. Given that it’s almost a 5 hour drive away, we decided to join on to a coach trip operated by Hyur Services to visit Tatev, as well as the famous monasteries, Khor Virap…
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YEREVAN – ARMENIA
29/6/23 – 2/7/23 Today, we were heading across the border, and making our way south to Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. There is a train that does this journey, but it takes something like 13 hours overnight, and only operates on alternating days, and the journey by road only took about 6 hours total.…
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TBILISI – GEORGIA
26/6/2023 – 29/6/2023 No time for breakfast today! We’ve got an early-ish flight to Tbilisi, so instead of breakfast, we’re in a taxi, headed to the airport! After arriving at Terminal 1, where we thought we were flying from, we ended up having to walk 50 metres over to Terminal 2, which despite the short…
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BAKU – AZERBAIJAN
23/6/23 – 26/6/23 After spending most of the morning procrastinating, I finally got my act together and sorted myself out for my upcoming series of flights, and caught the train to the airport. Like any good traveller, I had tried to check in online beforehand. Unfortunately, it is not a seamless operation, namely because the…
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