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hippietrail
hippietrail
07:28
morning
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
morning
hippietrail
hippietrail
08:04
how goes it?
only two new questions, the london question got closed
hmm the rain has arrived
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
got a friend coming over, having some coffee and arguing about the international supply chain
hippietrail
hippietrail
having trouble getting лютеница in sweden?
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
08:25
haha, no.. I actually found how to get it here, in Jönköping, no less -- a friend of mine has an uncle who is truck driver and drives to Sweden once every month or so, and even goes all the way to here (there's a large truck stop in the city).. so he can get me anything I want basically for free
these guys often sell illegally alcohol as well -- you probably know that alcohol trade is state monopoly in Sweden
the season of home-made лютеница was a few weeks ago, and now it's ready for transportation, I hear
hippietrail
hippietrail
oh yes of course
it was the first thing i ever ate in bulgaria
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
did you have the home-made stuff?
hippietrail
hippietrail
no the first people to pick me up hitchhiking last year gave me a jar they bought from a shop
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ate some every day with bread until some mould started to grow on top and i had to throw it away )-:
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
08:40
indeed -- some of these do not contain much preservatives (is this the right word?) like E-whatevers, and usually don't last long after opened. This is twice as valid for the home-made thing -- a week tops
 
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hippietrail
hippietrail
10:35
what would be the cheapest ferry from the vicinity of athens to anywhere in turkey?
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
en.allexperts.com/q/Greece-142/2009/6/…
I guess you need to get the ferry from Piraeus
hippietrail
hippietrail
what's a piraeus and is it cheap to get to? (-:
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
10:52
Piraeus is a seven-letter city in Greece :)
20 km from Athens, if memory serves
seems there are a lot of ferries going from there, but there are no direct ones to Turkey, as far as I can tell
hippietrail
hippietrail
trying to decide whether to deviate my course from here to tbilisi to go via athens so i can shop for used books
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
lonely planet says there is no direct ferry between Athens and Istanbul, bar some 22-hour bus ride
lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1546722
looks like Thessaloniki might be a better deal if you want to get to Turkey.. most options would go from there anyway
hippietrail
hippietrail
it doesn't have to be istanbul anywhere i havent been before is cool
yeah but theres only one used bookshop in thessaloniki and i've been there before (-:
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
is the goal to get there using the shortest possible route, or some (possibly major) deviations are an option?
hippietrail
hippietrail
11:20
the cheapest way is more of a concern
hippietrail
hippietrail
11:31
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Q: What might be the cheapest ferry connection from near Athens to anywhere in Turkey?

hippietrailSoon I'm heading from Albania to Turkey to Georgia. The obvious way is to go through Thessaloniki which is a great city and I'd like to go back. But I'm considering an alternative plan of going via Athens instead. Now I don't like backtracking and I like being in new places and I like places wi...

budget international-travel ferries turkey athens
deviating back to thessaloniki is not an option for this question but other deviations might be. deviations on the turkish side might be okay depending if i would need further ferries to get from say a turkish island to the mainland
18 unanswered questions!
ok next storm didn't come yet i'm going out exploring and eating street food
Roflcoptr
Roflcoptr
11:48
omg
 
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hippietrail
hippietrail
13:11
oyg?
Martin Tapankov
Martin Tapankov
How's your travelling salesman problem coming together?
hippietrail
hippietrail
i don't have to visit every point in the least distance d-;
wow no newer questions yet
i got a comment that flying might be cheaper though
Roflcoptr
Roflcoptr
13:30
from athen to instanbul
the cheapest that i can find is almost 220 swiss franks
hippietrail
hippietrail
14:16
ooh thanks let me convert some prices
ah expensive
 
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hippietrail
hippietrail
20:06
ghost town

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