Istanbul
Yesterday afternoon I arrived in Istanbul. My train was only 6 hours late due to very bad weather in Rumania and Bulgaria.
On the 2 of July I left Budapest by night train for a 36 hour journey and they don't sell any food on the train during that time. In my cabin were 5 people from the Tjech Republic. Who didn't speak to much English. They were my sleeping mates for the next two nights. After some wine and beer we got along.
The weather in Budapest was OK but just after leaving Budapest it started to rain. This rain didn't leave us till Istanbul.
My first night in train was not bad. In the morning we got up and it was still raining and it was cold as well, we had some breakfast and because its was so cold we went to bed again. Most people on the train were sleeping, reading, look out the window and see the rain poring down. In this rain Rumania looked like dump and many roads and rivers were flooded in Rumania.
In Bucharest they parked our train cabin some where on rail track not even near a station for more than one hour, the rest of train went on to Tessaloniki.
After that we went on to Bulgaria and is was still raining very heavy. I some point I looked out the window and saw that a river was so much swollen that the rail track was nearly in the river. But we past it slowly. I think we were lucky because at the moment there are many flooding in Bulgaria because of this rain.
2 nights in a train is not bad you sleep a lot maybe 18 hours a day, so if you are tired this is a great way to make it up.
On the 2 of July I left Budapest by night train for a 36 hour journey and they don't sell any food on the train during that time. In my cabin were 5 people from the Tjech Republic. Who didn't speak to much English. They were my sleeping mates for the next two nights. After some wine and beer we got along.
The weather in Budapest was OK but just after leaving Budapest it started to rain. This rain didn't leave us till Istanbul.
My first night in train was not bad. In the morning we got up and it was still raining and it was cold as well, we had some breakfast and because its was so cold we went to bed again. Most people on the train were sleeping, reading, look out the window and see the rain poring down. In this rain Rumania looked like dump and many roads and rivers were flooded in Rumania.
In Bucharest they parked our train cabin some where on rail track not even near a station for more than one hour, the rest of train went on to Tessaloniki.
After that we went on to Bulgaria and is was still raining very heavy. I some point I looked out the window and saw that a river was so much swollen that the rail track was nearly in the river. But we past it slowly. I think we were lucky because at the moment there are many flooding in Bulgaria because of this rain.
2 nights in a train is not bad you sleep a lot maybe 18 hours a day, so if you are tired this is a great way to make it up.
posted by Meinoud at 9:34 PM
3 Comments:
He Meinoud!
Dank voor je sms! Hier in Utreg is het goed. Uiteraard zijn we een beetje jaloers op je, maar je hebt het verdiend. Ben erg benieuwd hoe Istanbul is en of het een beetje lijkt op Lombok in Utreg :-) Geniet ze, doe lekker gek (maar niet te) en vertel iedereen dat als ze naar Nederland willen, ze even moeten kijken op www.godutchtravel.com Misschien kun je bij terugkomst hier direct aan de slag! Groeten, ook van Debby!
Meinoud,
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