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Georgia – Come for the Visas, come back for the mountains…
Posted on June 24, 2014 by noflytri in Georgia.I’m writing this from Baku, where extreme heat and wind have combined to make me rather nervous about the prospect of having to get a boat in the next few days… To distract myself from this impending doom, I’ve decided that Georgia probably deserves more than merely a single blog post which focused almost exclusively […]
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Swimming in the Black Sea – or to be precise, almost drowning in the Black Sea
Posted on June 11, 2014 by noflytri in Georgia.If there is a lesson from this blog post its that, when it comes down to it, you really should say what you mean, even if you think you might look stupid…. (Oh and the cover photo is actually of the Black Sea a few km’s away from Batumi at the Turkish Georgian Border) Georgia was […]
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Railway Museum pages now up
Posted on June 3, 2014 by noflytri in History, Museums, trains.I seem to find myself coming across steam trains in various states of disrepair throughout my trip. Sometimes in museums, sometimes just outside train stations. Given I’ve now amassed quite a few photos of these I thought I would put up a new part of my blog to show them off, away from the eyes […]
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Abandoned Ani – On the road to nowhere…
Posted on June 1, 2014 by noflytri in History, Turkey.Having dragged myself away from Istanbul, I’ve enjoyed relaxing and taking in some of Turkey’s other famous attractions. The Roman ruins at Ephesus and the tourist and ballooning hotspot of Cappadocia. Both were good, but neither stood out. Ephesus, with its crowds does compare rather unfavourable to some of the lonely ancient cities I’ve seen in […]
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Istanbul – the first milestone
Posted on May 20, 2014 by noflytri in First Impressions, Turkey.This travel blogging lark is actually quite hard. I’m conscious it is all too easy for any post to turn into a list of “and then I did this, and then I ate that…. etc etc.” so I end up putting off writing posts in the hope something dramatically interesting will happen. It also takes […]
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Buzludzha – trespassing into the past
Posted on May 6, 2014 by noflytri in Bulgaria, History, Top Experiences.Why, I asked myself, am I doing this? I’ve not slept properly for days, I’m in a town I’ve never heard of before, stuck in the middle of a thunderstorm, looking for a bus to yet another town that a week ago I’d never heard of. Why? I’d just got off a 5 hour train […]
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Partizan versus Red Star – flares never went out of fashion in Belgrade
Posted on April 28, 2014 by noflytri in Sport.A few quick updates – I am now on Twitter @noflytripping – follow for a daily travel photo and other occasional updates. Also follow my Facebook page for more photos and hopefully some videos from the game below. Let’s be honest, Serbs have a bit of a reputation in “the West”, the civil war in […]
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Diary of a train journey…
Posted on April 22, 2014 by noflytri in Bosnia and Herzegovinia, train journey's.The following is pretty much word for word a transcript of jottings down I made on my train journey from Sarajevo to Mostar, a journey of just about two and a half hours. I’ve just added the bits before and after the actual journey. Not entirely sure why I decided to make lots of jottings, […]
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Sarajevo Roses and Mostar’s scars
Posted on April 18, 2014 by noflytri in Bosnia and Herzegovinia, First Impressions, History.I’m now in Belgrade, but I feel I am starting to catch up with the blog. Bosnia was a beautiful country with some amazing food but its obviously still a place trying to come to terms with its recent history, here is my experience of it’s two most famous cities. Sarajevo. There’s something about the […]
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The green, green grass of Zagreb
Posted on April 16, 2014 by noflytri in Croatia, First Impressions.I’m uploading this from Kotor in Montenegro, where the hostel is insisting on playing endless remixes of Gangnam Style. The recent Ghostbusters mash up is perhaps the last straw… Relatively short post this time on why I think travellers should give Zagreb a chance rather than bypassing it or just using it as a place to […]
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