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Day 142

Today in Athens = Changing of the Guard, Tower of the Winds, Street Art discovery and appreciation afternoon and probably the biggest Couchsurfing meet up at I have been to so far at CUBE in athens.

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Day 141

I left my Couchsurfing host today to check into a hostel closer to town and the Athens nightlife. I spent most of the day doing some more research into flights and all that jazz, but in the evening I climbed to Lycabettus hill to watch the awesome sunset before heading out for a few too…

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Day 140

Today I did the Athens Free Walking tour with UK George. He is a really cool dude and the tour was awesome, I highly recommend it if you come to Athens. He also unnoficially filled me in a bit more on the happenings in Athens regarding my “Hail Hitler” experience on Day 138 and more…

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Day 139

Today was a really interesting, fun and unexpected day in Athens. I saw Adrian’s Library and Ancient Agora in the morning before meeting up with my little greek buddy Evita. I suggested we climb Lycabetus Hill but instead Evita suggested we go and see the Anarchist part of Athens which sounded like a much better…

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Day 138

Athens is awesome! Maybe its because I have been stuck on the deserted Greek Islands and previously traveling through the sparsely populated Turkish coast, but it feels really good to be back in a big city again. After checking out a small market and sorting out my SIM card with my couchsurfing host l spent…

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Day 137

Today was spent mostly on a ferry to Athens working on an animation for Loopdeloop.org which I am hoping to finish before the deadline. I am now waiting in a starbucks for my Couchsurfing host to collect me, but my first impressions of Athens are awesome! It actually feels good to be back in the…

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Day 114

So on the official website for the Turkish Border control it says that you need to pay the visa entry fee in the currency of your residence in the EU (so British pay in Pounds, Germany in Euros etc.). Well FYI, that info is totally wrong. Luckily I had just enough Euros to make the…

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Day 112

This is my couchsurfing host Darko on the set for his next short film. He graciously put shooting on hold for a couple of days to host me, hang out, show me around Nis and drink Beer and/or Rakija every night. We didn’t get home until the wee hours again so today only had time to…

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Day 111

Ahh, finally couch surfing in Nis after some frustrating months of constantly denied requests. Im staying with Darko who is a Serbian Film maker. Today we went and checked out the Skull tower which is a tower made of skulls if you didn’t already guess. Over the years people have been stealing the skulls and…

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Day 110

This is a long post but I’m on a bus with not much else to do, if you stick around I will tell you a tale about exploring abandoned military bases, blood, Savage wolves and high speed chases. I got a bus to Novi Sad which is a smaller city about 1.5 hours from Belgrade…

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