Day 36: Leaving Athens for Turkey
June 5, 2012; Distance
covered today: 0 Km; Total: 2555 Km
I
didn’t sleep well last night. There were mosquitoes in the hostel and at 6 am,
the girls in the room were making a lot of noise as they were leaving. I had
breakfast in the hostel and went to Acropolis Museum. It was a very interesting
museum. I watched a documentary there about Acropolis which brought things to
light a little bit.
After
the museum, I walked around a little bit and went to the hostel, picked up my
bike, and took the subway to port. I am now on the ferry. It is not as new and
comfortable as the one I took to Greece. I am given a seat in a big room with
lots of other passengers. The passengers are somehow isolated. It is like an
airplane.
From
tomorrow, I will be starting a new chapter of my trip, going into a Non EU
country; I don’t know if I call Turkey a third-world country. I have read a lot of good things about
cycling in Turkey; however, I know that there are different kind of challenges,
the most important of all: there are no Campgrounds. I will be either bush
camping or going to cheap hotels. That means I should finish my days in towns
and cities. I was also warned a lot about Turkish roads specially in the east part.
What is more, I was chatting with one of my students in Turkey, she said that I
should be extra careful in the eastern part of Turkey. She suggested me to go
to the northern part if possible. But there is also a lot propaganda against
Iranians, but actually the opposite is true
about them. Anyways.. come what may.
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