Friday, August 10, 2007

First hours in Barcelona

I expent the first 5 hours of my trip trying to find a hostal because everything here is booked.
I finally found one but just for today so I dont know what I am going to do tomorrow... by the way, Barcelona has the most expensive accomodation of the world!
As you can see, my day could be better, hopefully tomorrow improves.

Praga

I dont even know here to start...and probably that is why is going to be a short blog, but sometimes experiences are too good to put in words.
It was a great city, beautiful.
Scott and I saw absolutly everything that it was possible to be seen.
We ate a lot, from local food to Mc Donalds fries.
We took tons of pictures and the last day we even staid in a boat-hotel.
This morning we said good-bye and I start my jurney by myself coming to Spain...
I want to say a public THANKS to Scott, I had a great time and this trip wouldnt have been the same without him... tons of thanks to you!!!

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Pequeñas delicias/ Luxiouries

This blog is in name of the stand to put the shower head. Yesterday I took, for the first time in 2 months, a shawer with my two hands!!!!
Yes, hard to believe but I finally got to a place where showers stand and you dont have to hold them... you dont imagine how easy it is to wash my hair and my arms like this.

The other news that I have is the fact that, believe it or not, I am using my Bosnian to comunicate with the Czech. Numbers, days of the week, beer, and coffee are said almost alike.

From Sarajevo to Satu Mare

The last 4 days I was traveling and traveling, from train to train.
Scott and I left Sarajevo and went to Budapest, there we had a night and a morning to see all the city. It was fun and we took tons of pictures, the city is realy beautiful. It was really nice to see the capital of the country where 50% of my roots are.
Next day at noon-ish we took a train to Satu Mare (Rumania, but Hugary when my grandmother was born). We got there at night and, helped buy a nice train-man we got to our hostal. For our surprise, the hostal did not reserve a place for us and at 8pm it look like we were going to sleep outside in the rain. Fortunatelly, people in Satu Mare are the nicest people in the world (not just because my grandma is from there) and the train-man and other nice man helped us to find a place to stay.
The next day we expent it in Satu Mare trying to find the house where my grandmother was born. It was really hard as the names of the streets have changed so many times in the last 80 years. However, when we tought the cause was lost, a random nice lady was able to tell us the actual name. It was an unforgetable experience to be standing in font of the door of the house where 80 years ago my grandma lived.
At 4am next morning we took the train beck to Budapest and at 1pm other to Praga. We got to Prage exausted we are planning on hanging out now, enjoying being turist. One last thing I would like to say here is how much we miss Julie, without her we are not the trio, but we understand the change of plan and we love you everyday (we will bring you something)...
...to be continued

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Leaving Tuzla

Yesterday I left Tuzla which, despite of the ruff times, it was a hard thing to do. I said bye to my NGO and neighbors, took pictures and gave little presents.
Today I am in Sarajevo, getting ready to go on my next adventures.
After today is going to be harder to stay in touch with you and to post blogs, but I will do my best to keep you posted.
See you...

Monday, July 30, 2007

Serbia

This weekend Michelle and I went to Belgrade, it was a shorter way than what we thought and 4 hour later we were there. The man at the border was strange with me and my passport but he finally stamped it.
Once there we met with Amber and Renee that came by surprise (for Michelle and me).
Belgrade is a huge city, so many people and sooo many things to do that coming from Tuzla we were very overwhelmed.
Amber B-day was another surprise, she became one year older this Saturday, and I made sure to remind it to her every hour.
It was very nice to be there for four days but, I should also say that I realized how biased I am with the discourse I heart about the war in Bosnia, it was really hard to try to remain neutral.
Anyway, I also wanted to say here that on Wednesday I leave Tuzla so today I made all my laundry and tomorrow is packing day.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

And now???!!!

First of all sorry that I either write once every 1000 days or 3 times on one day... is just that I have a lot to say today.
My plans for the next month ish are as follow:
This weekend Michelle and I are going to Belgrade, Serbia, to meet with Amber and see the city... tell you on Monday how it went.
Wednesday is my last day at "work" and after saying goodbye, Michelle and I are going to Sarajevo.
On Friday early morning Scott and I are going to Budapest and after expending a night there we will head up to Satu Mare, the town were my grandma was born.
Once we have taken 10000 pics we will go to Praga for a couple of days and hopefully meeting with Julie jolie.
On the 10th I am planning on going to Italy to see my cousin Ada and her family.
Around the 15th I will head up to Spain to visit Fer.
So far this are my plans, however I am waiting on some people (yes, Ada and Fer) to tell me some details. I will keep you all posted on the news.