The Apinautica: Ch 10 Pt 4 - Chimerical Turquoise Drifting
A'ight, so, I've been wicked busy. I just signed the contract for my third simultaneous job. It's not that I'm desperate for money so much as all three were too plum to pass up (Editor of the national beekeeping magazine, Senior [extension] Officer (entering public service two pay levels above normal entry!), and now I will teach at Melbourne ( Read more... )
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How lovely! I've often had fantasies of backpack traveling around Europe or around anywhere, really.
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In some other places (Like Australia!) most backpackers in hostels and such are squirrelly little 18 year olds but what I really liked about Turkey is that, as I note in the entry, its not really anyone's first gap year benderama destination - the backpackers I encountered throughout Turkey were altogether a more mature bunch of people (by which I don't mean necessarily elderly, just more interesting than 18 year olds in cancun or amsterdam).
Another place I'm hearing a lot about is I've been hearing of a lot of people's great experiences hiking "the camino" in Spain, a long walking trail, originally a pilgrimage, and probably still substantially used that way, but the people I know who did it were not religious and just went for the fun of it. There's hostels all along the way that are either free or a nominal charge, basically you just set about it with your best walking shoes, by food along the way, keep on going, it sounds really neat.
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That sounds like a great trip in spite of Her. I've been to Turkey but only to Istanbul. I would love to see more of the country someday.
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Yeah it's a fun place! Istanbul alone is pretty neat, its an easy place to go for a few days and have an interesting and enjoyable time. With a few more days its easy to get to places like Troy, Gallipoli, Ephesus (a remarkably well preserved ruins of a Roman city), and Pamukkale (a really cool natural hotspring that is both fun to get into but also looks really remarkable since over the millenia it has formed cake like tiers of calcium) - or for a longer vacation one can go to Cappadocia which is a surreal place (which you may recall from my relatively recent entry about it as part of this series) aand of course the stuff I did in this entry... and there's more I haven't even seen yet!
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Thanks!
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