I drifted in and out of consciousness all morning, sometimes a jolt from the bus woke me, others the pain in my neck or the agony of my knees slowly filling up with fluid. We eventually arrived at the Otogar in Istanbul at about 7am and transferred into smaller minibuses to the Sultanhamet, only my bus didn't go all the way to Sultanhamet. My driver stopped somewhere else entirely in Aksaray thinking no one would notice. Sultanhamet! He called out and watch...

Officially my first day of holidays and the first thing I did today was wander down to Topkapi Palace and go in that damn archaeological museum. Well I say first, I mean after my breakfast of Efes and Pizza. I made the long trek down to the palace in the heat, wondering what obstacle would prevent me from seeing the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great this time. Museum is now closed on Sundays, Museum is being renovated, Sarcophagus has been moved to the Brit...

My first order of business today was to look at the Tucan orientation walk of Istanbul, laugh and then tear it up. No Tucan orientation walk for Istanbul, this will be Kristina's tour of Istanbul and it will be epic! The tour of Istanbul given by yours truly started after breakfast, I firstly had to find some ATM's so that people could get some money. This placed us at the entrance to thr Agia Sophia, which I spoke at length about and answered lots of questi...

I had a nice long sleep in, in my air conditioned room in Bucharest. I went down and had breakfast before going back up to spend the remainder of the morning watching TV on my lap top in my room. I'd never been to Bucharest before, but the thought of grappling with the heaving dirty metropolis in the heat really didn't appeal to me today. I had a nice long skype chat with Mum and then my passengers started filtering back in to go to the airport. At this poi...

Kristina's Hightway to Hell Tour - Day 9 I am still awake after a big night and a day of doing paper work. Its 3am and we pull into our petrol stop at Bolu. Horrors they don't seem to understand they are supposed to bill us for fuel. I spend about 1 hour in total making and recieving phone calls from my boss who eventually tells me to pay for it out of my expense account, luckily I have enough on me, as two big burley guys have now got on the bus and are being ...