Day 17 Tuesday 18 Aug 0930 (19Aug) We had the day to ourselves in vienna, but first we had a driving tour and went to shmegran (I think thats what it's called) palace. The driving tour was great, the whole city oozes culture and the old buildings are kept in such good repair. The CBD area seems to be located in a different spot too which meant there were no modern buldings in the labirynth of palaces and opera houses. The Palace was huge and the gardens wer...

Day 14 Saturday 15 Aug 1344 (18Aug) I'm sitting down an alley in Vienna, this place is so beautiful and the coffees fantastic the buildings are high and there's people everywhere. Saturday morning we rose early and set off. I skipped a run that morning, my legs were still pretty sore from the previous two days worth. The bus trip was fairly eneventful and we arrived at Budapest in the Early arvo. First we went to a massive supermarket to try and get some b...

Day 11 Wednesday 12 Aug 1705 We left early and headed to a fortress just on the Bulgaria side of Romania. The Fortress was awesome. It was an old Bulgarian fort used to try and hold off the Turks. But was only a bandaid fix. We had lunch at the bottom of the hill and then set off to Romania. The tour ended at the mall where a majority of us ended up eating at a Romanian restaurant. The food was good but paying the bill was a pain in the ass and I ended up p...

Bulgaria Day 9 Monday 10 Aug 1043 We jumped on the bus and took off. We we're driving for about 2.5 hours befor we stopped for a toilet break. I thought I was over the whole Delhi Belli, apparently not. Now were about 15 minutes from the Bulgarian Border border then another 400km's to Sophia 1735 We're still on the bus. We're less then 100k's out now though so not much longer. The bus trip itself has been fairly uneventful. All of us newbies got up and di...

Day 8 10 Aug 09 0744 After landing in Turkey we all went through to passport control. We all, one by one, were then told that we needed to walk over to another desk first and buy our visa's. This all went relatively smoothly except for when I was in the visa line trying to equalise my ears. My right ear never adjusts properly and was feeling pretty “full”. I sqeezed my nose and blew, my ears equalised to what felt likee way too much and I was sure i'd blo...