Istanbul , Turkey, what an amazing city. When we were coming into the countryside from Romania it looks very poor and like the villages in Romania. Then you get to Istanbul and its 17 million residents. WOW, this place is very big and has lots of things to do and see. Turkey, has a major Muslim population with masques everywhere and the Blue Masque is the major attraction. We went there today and it was really interesting. The building is very huge with amazing ...

On the night train to turkey… Well, I am leaving Romania with CS Katie after our three night stint in Cluj Naboaca, Singhau, and Brasov. Draculas castle was more or less what I expected after reading their website before I arrived. It is mostly dedicated to a queen of Romania after Vlad the impaler "Vlad Dracula" was the main resident of the castle. They had a couple of rooms with the history of vampires and the ties to Transylvania, but nothing much...

Romania…wow it is very different from the rest of western Europe. I can see that now is the part of the trip that is gonna test my travel skills and adaptability to another way of life, which is good and I am initially not enjoying the experiences, but recognize they will be needed later on in the travels, so I am taking it as a learning experience to use later.. Romania, is still very much a third world country in the fact that there are a large portion of the...

Last night in Prague had to be one of the coolest and most diverse nights I have had. I had met up with some CS that were staying at my last hosts place and went out drinking in the old town square of Prague. There we hung out and met up with a Japanese dude and a German dude they had met the night prior. So, at this table in the center of the old town square we had, two Dutch, one German, one Japanese, one American, and then a couple from Finland came over and t...

Prague, Czech Republic. What a cute little big city this is. I arrived yesterday and met Marketa CS and another surfer she had from Belgium Michael, really good people. I went out today and explored Prague and saw lots of it. I went to Prague Castle and all over old town square where there was some amazing local foods and a Dixieland band playing, good stuff. I also went to the communist museum, and this was really fascinating to see how badly and how recently c...