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Travel to Tartu and have a beer Tartu is the second biggest town in Estonia. And Estonia is one of the Baltic States and is located between Finland, Russia and Latvia.
Tartu is basically a nice student town with 100k inhabitants. I'm not one of those 100k. The students, all 20k (or something) are extra.
There's no sea nor ocean nearby, no great mountains, even the weather is like everywhere else in Estonia (shit autumn weather 12months a year). Doesn't sound like much, does it? But it does - if a town doesn't have any o... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownFinding the best Arizona rentalsI remember the first time I heard about United States of America. I was just couple of years old, most common travel locations I was aware of were Finland and Germany. Me being Estonian myself, I guess that explains it. Besides, when you're just a little child, you don't really know too many countries anyhow. And when I did discover the States, it wasn't because of anything related to travel, rather I had just found out I have an aunt there. I actually knew about Germany for the exact same reaso... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownGoing to Mexico? Visit Playa Blanca Traveling is an essential part of life. If you think it isn't, it usually means you haven't really traveled at all and most likely have no idea what you are talking about. If you've traveled too much already, that could explain it, at least a bit.
So far I have traveled in Europe - mainly in France, a bit in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany...and so on. But I have thought of going in other directions as well. Mexico is one country I'd really love to go to. No big cities, just some small nice ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownThese are christians, they don't like youWhat is that? I ask again, what the heck was that? I was just sitting in my favorite cafeteria called Le Colbert, it's on Rue Belgique, when a man with a little boy passed by. "They are christians, they don't like you" - that's what the man said to the little boy when they were just passing me. Obviously they must have been muslims. The father, uncle, friend or whoever the man was to the boy must have been a muslim extremist...or just a moron. I really don't know what to say about him, other th... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownDrinking, drining, drinking...Why? I guess the main thing is....or at least one of the main things is the fact that I'm travelling alone and not really looking for company. I actually like it by myself. Sure, sometimes meeting new people is great, can't argue with that, but when you're travelling alone, it gives you something. Can't even say what, but it does give you something.
And I like beer. Even though while at home, I don't drink alone, except for some casual beers next do lunch...or instead of it, while travelling ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownAkathor - beer, people and live musicIts' 8pm, why am I in this pub, Akathor again? Is it fairly "cheap" beer for another hour? Are the nice looking waitresses that attract me? Is it the non-horrible-sounding live music? Or is it the crowd in the hundred tables around me that makes me wanna come back here?
Because the place is so big, the service isn't always the fastest, but at the same time, usually nothing to complain about either. You don't get the attention might want to get and what you do get in smaller bar and pubs. It'... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownAntibes, Juan le Pins and all the sunIt's 3 hours later and I'm back in Nice. It's not that Antibes wasn't nice, it really was, and the beach ni Juan le Pins was great, it even had sand. But the warmth is really starting to get to me, I could use a few rainy days, and I'd be back to my normal mode.
After I had arrived in Antibes, I decided to go to the beach. Well, half an hour later I was in a beach, except that it wasn't the beach of Antibes but rather the beach of Juan le Pins. But that's okay, from what I've heard, this is ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownBus from Nice to AntibesSo there I was, I had just finished my morning ritual - big coffee in a small cafeteria with a great bartender, walking towards the hotel (well, 20 meters away) when I saw the hotel manager. He asked me what I was going to do today - I said no idea. He suggested I'd go to Antibes, a town nearby on the coast with allegedly beautiful beaches. He shared my opinion (taken from air and one beer near the train station during heavy rain couple of years ago) on Cannes - nice city but ... not good enough... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownDay 5 - Nice weather, nice people, wifi and nice sights - all in NiceWithout knowing what to do really, I decided to walk around the Nice again, found a 4.50 half a litre bear in the port area, enjoyed the sun near the Nice port and did nothing.
I guess that's what a real vacation should look like for a normal person. Drank some beer again, can't do without it, talked to the hotel manager I'm in - Hotel Darcy...the 40 euro not so good hotel. But it just got better, for me anyway. Not the room, or anything else like that. But, as I'm working on my vacation as ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownAll you need to do is askAt least that's what they say. And they are right. If you do ask, the answer can be either yes or no. If you do not ask, the answer by default is no. Ask even if the potential for failure is 99%...if you ask, you still have a better chance of getting the answer "yes" than without asking. And if they say no, it's normal.
I asked for a wireless password of this bar, Akathor, from my waitress, he said probably not, but I can ask the boss who's currently in the bar. I went to the bar about 15 mi... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownNice - still a good thingIt's 7pm, I'm sitting near the beach in a bar called Akathor, drinking happy hour beer (EUR 3.70 for half a litre, ain't bad considering the normal prices) and huh, beer is good, again.
I did go to the beach as intended, the whole 45 minutes, just can't stay doing nothing for so long time at once. Even moving around without any purpose is better for me, so ... usually I do. Went shopping, just to get some cheap clean clothes. I did.
Now I'm in the happy hour bar, Akathor, been here couple ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownBack in Nice, off to beachHere I am, back in Nice, last night had to go for a 60 euro not so good hotel. It's high season and my kind of travelling isn't the easiest. Right now it's 11am, I have got myself another hotel for 42.50...it's located near the bars I found wireless so I'll see if I have it in my room as well later, would be great, haven't seen the room yet, it's available in about 2 hours.
I decided to finally go to the beach today, bought myself a small mattress for 2 euros. If you see prices like 15 euros ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownLes Arcs - where the hell am I?When I sat down in the bus which wasn't supposed to go to St. Raphael but rather some place called Les Arcs I kind of thought it must be a place nearby, a place near the coast. I wasn't right. Or well, 30 minute drive between the mountains from the coast into the mainland isn't too far, yes, but it's still a totally different place. At least there was a train station so I wasn't too worried.
However, I was out of cigarettes and I didn't find any tobacco shops in the train station...so I deci... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownLife is unpredictable, for travellers like meSo there I was, with great intentions to stay the night in Saint-maximine, sunbath a bit and enjoy myself in any other way possible, but it disn't really work out like that.
The first small disapointment was the tourism office or actually their gift to me. I went there, asked for a map with hotels on it, and boy, did I get one. It was more of a small book. Lots of information about the hotels and so on, but the disapointing part came when I checked the prices....well, at first I thought it l... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownTravelling just a bit too fast, am I not?Well, in all honesty, for most people but me, it really would be just a bit too fast. On Thursday I was in Milan, same night in Ventimiglia, next early morning (Friday) Nice, today St. Raphael and now Sainte-Maxime. That is pretty fast isn't it, you can't really see much during the time. But for me, it's perfect, that's the reason I don't like the travel packages, they usually expect me to stay put in one town. Not really for me, even though I should try that out some day as well. I like moving ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownSainte-Maxime, here I amI'm here, I actually sticked to my impulsive plan and arrived Sainte-Maxime like I had planned to. Well, yes, the plan was born about 5 hours ago, but still. Plan nevertheless. One point for me.
So far the town looks nice...okay okay, I've only seen the small bus station and a bar I'm sitting in right now (and the 50 meters between the two) but looks good! Even though...I'm starting to remember that maybe this town didn't have sandy beaches either, but rather small rocks compared to nice's b... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownChanging your mind is Healthy - St. Raphael (or Saint-Maxime)So yesterday I was thinking of renting an apartment in Nice for a week or two and now I'm on a train towards St. Raphael in order to take a bus from there and go to Saint-Maxime.
Nice is great, I really like the city, but I'm not terribly fond of the beach there, instead of sand they have a rocky beach area. So I was looking for some nice beaches nearby and found Antibes (quite near to Nice), Saint-Maxime, Le Lavandou, Hyeres.
Ah yes, I also found a 65 euro plane ticket to Biarritz on 15... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownRenting an apartments in NiceI was just thinking what to do next or how long will my trip turn out to be. When you have skipped two nights then it really feels like you have been travelling for a week already..even though in theory it's just my second day. Considering my budget, which isn't the to great, and my spending power (which unfortunately is great) then I'll probably be around for another 7-10 days. But I'm thinking of renting an apartment for a week. It all depend on a price of course, but if I could get a nice stu... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownNice - I've got WIFI!I arrived in Nice around 6am and decided I'd try to find myself a hotel. I've been here before so I knew where to look. However, unfortunately, pretty much all hotels I checked were either full or way too expensive. Considering I hadn't slept for 48 hours, I really needed a sleep and a shower. Before I finally managed to find a hotel for myself, I managed to sit down in a already familiar bar and order couple of coffees. And what do you know - the first place I sat down in, the fourth wireless I... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownVentimiglia - Boys night out...I arrived in Ventimiglia (or French version VentiMille) 1.07am, last train to or from the station until 5am. So I had couple of hours there. Even though all the bars, cafes and shops were closed, there was a man in between the standing trains...selling snacks, drinks and beer. What a great idea! Of course I had one...and a few more.
Fortunately I wasn't the only one waiting in the station, lots of sleeping people in there, even one father with his two children, seemed to be from USA.
I was... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownOut of Milan to...Ven...Ventimiglia?I walked around Milan the whole day, had couple of beers, couldn't really decide where to go or what to do next. The whole day I tried to check the train ticket machines but oh boy where there ques. Just terrible. And I thought I'd be polite enough not to spend half an hour searching for tickets, checking for prices, while others are waiting. And the lines in the trenitalia offices were even longer. And as a finally saw, I can't buy a ticket from Milan to Nice from the machine...so I did the nex... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownMilan - city of ...somethingI've always felt that Milan is just a city to travel through, I still believe that. The last hour I just walked around in hopes to find something I'd like to see..well, I didn't. Of course, I went in a random direction, then turned to some random direction and...well, now I'm just sitting down, drinking beer in a terrace of one bar called Carpe Diem (Catch the day). My next stop will probably be back to Milan Central Station where I'll try to decide where to go next. Don't really feel like stayi... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownCheap isn't always cheap - especially if you're stupidHere I am, in Riga (Latvia) airport. It's 5.21am and I arrived here more than half and hour ago. Why is it so that transportation arrives earlier than it should only when you don't really need it...or would rather prefer couple of hour delay? I guess that's where Murphy's laws pop in.
While I was still waiting for the bus in Pärnu, after I had had couple of beers in my brother's place, I realized once again (yeah, I tend to discover some things way too often, again) that I really shouldn't ha... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownPreparation for the tripI bought my plane ticket from Riga to Milan on Monday. Unfortunately I couldn't find any great buses to Riga, so even thought my plane leaves at 11.40am, I'll be hopping on a bus 2.20am, arriving in Riga around 3 hours later and then will have something like 6 hours of time to do nothing. Well...that's what you get if you buy as cheap flight tickets as possible. Ryanair - right now though, even their cheap wasn't too cheap. Cost me around 100 EUR. For Ryanair it's not cheap.
But one way or an... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownWhen searching for cheap airline ticketsIt's that time of year again. Decided to go travelling in July, gave away my apartment for the month and thought I'd start searching for good flight deals with some low cost airlines again. But I've got to admit, things doesn't seem as promising as I hoped they would be.
Sure, I can find great last minute travel packages but I'm not much into them. I'd just like to buy a one way flight to some place with good weather, nice people and a sea or an ocean nearby. Tomorrow would be great. But...
... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownMost common mistakes travelers makeTraveling is fun. Or interesting. Or a survival trip. By the end of the day, the way I see it, independent of what it is, as long as the destination and the trip isn’t boring, it’s always worthwhile. Each of us is different – our personalities are different, our interests, our way of living, expectations. I hate people saying you should do that or you shouldn’t do that. Usually, the only thing someone can say about most of the issues is how they feel about it or how it turned out for THEM.
T... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownMorocco myths and realityHmm, great title. Unfortunately I don’t really know about any myths. But I know about the impression Morocco might leave. It might leave the impression that everyone are using drugs, everyone are selling drugs, everyone are drinking, everyone are trying to rip you off, everyone are trying to sell you something, all Moroccan men are spending their days in the cafeterias in the streets, the police is corrupt, people are dirty, there’s disease everywhere, there’s lots of poor people and so on.
W... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownPrices in Morocco / Morocco price guideIf you came to me and asked how were the prices in Morocco I’d need to answer „It depends”. I wouldn’t be lying and I wouldn’t be avoiding your question. Because it really does depend on a lot of factors. When in other just a bit more civilized countries there are usually just more expensive towns and less expensive towns, more expensive restaurants and less expensive restaurants then in Morocco there are more variables. If you’re from United States you can expect to pay a lot more for the simpl... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownFood in MoroccoI don’t know if you should go to Morocco if you wanted to have a holiday full of different great food. But then again, I wouldn’t send you to any country under these circumstances – I’d just suggest you to go shopping in the supermarket.
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But the food in Morocco is good. I won’t even talk about the salads and drinks you can get before you start eating your main course – in most cases they are good but I’d still go with French food instead. Some most traditional foods in Morocco are ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownStudents and English teachers in MoroccoWhen you first enter Morocco, you are required to fill out a form and fill in fields such as your name, your flight number, your departure airport, the place you’re going to stay in Morocco, reason for traveling and your occupation. In most cases feel free to write down your correct occupation. However, not every time might it be a good idea.
Jailing local journalists in Morocco isn’t very uncommon practice. Back in 2003 journalists were sentenced to prison for insulting the monarch. In 2007... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownMorocco and dealing with street sellersWhen in Morocco you’ll get in contact with a lot of people who want to sell you something. One theory says that you shouldn’t even answer them and move on or watch in a different direction. While it might work, I don’t like that much plus in many cases it might not work anyhow.
The reason I don’t like it – maybe it’s just me but it’s not polite. While they might want to sell you something, it IS their job and why should you be impolite towards people just doing their job? And the other thing ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownHotels in Morocco – you get more than you pay forBefore going to Morocco, the friend I was traveling with, said it’s difficult to find clean hotels. At least from his experience in Morocco the last time he was there. He might have been right at that time – as he was using even cheaper hotels ( probably something like 50-80 Dirhams a face) we were in this time (75-125 Dirhams a face).
But what we saw during our trip this time – you can find pretty great hotels for very little money. For 230 Dirhams for a room for two you could get a very nic... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownMorocco - work and povertyIn Morocco, everyone are working. Except for the mothers with their up-to-two-year-old children on the streets begging for money, it seems everyone in Morocco really are working.
Usually instead of begging people call their activities work. We don’t even have to talk about the numerous street-sellers here. Even though there’s really hundreds of people working in this „industry” on every street. Selling watches, perfumes, sunglasses, cleaning your shoes.
In many cases the „service” indust... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownDriving in morocco – all hell’s broken looseWe all know about Darwin’s theories. The strongest survives, the species that can adapt the quickest survive and so on. It’s the same with traffic in Morocco. At first glance it seems that people can drive (I mean, they must, considering the driving culture over there) but it seems that there are no rules or other laws related to it. That’s the impression anyway.
Whenever you’re behind the wheel, you need to pay attention. In Morocco, you need to pay attention 3 times more. You can’t count on... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Weeze, forgotten village?It was December 3rd, the weather wasn’t too bad, especially considering when we started our trip, there were snowstorms. Now all that was there was a bit of rain. Our flight was supposed to leave at 7am the next day so we had loads of time to waste. It was around 16pm when we arrived in Weeze and now we decided to walk to the villages nearby to get something to eat and drink a beer or two.
The first little place we walked to was about 3 km from the airport and I think there was only one pub.... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Amsterdam, back in Morocco?It was about midnight and we had no further plans. Yet we had two days til’ our flight back to Riga. Trying to decide where to go next, we considered taking a bus to Düsseldorf, or Essen, or Köln or ... at some point we noticed a bus to Amsterdam and decided to go to Netherlands instead.
We arrived in the Central Station of Amsterdam around 15 minutes before 3am. Some girls from United States were on the same bus and none of us wanted to pay for the hotel that night so we decided to find an ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Essaouira, anyone?We bought the tickets to Essaouira and waited for our bus. Well, about one and a half hours later the bus still wasn’t there and I went to talk to the guy who sold us the tickets. Would have been nice if he mentioned it before, but now he said there was no room in the bus and the next one goes in about 8 hours. So much of that plan.
Fortunately we managed to sell our tickets back and as we didn’t have much time before our plane from Marrakech back to Düsseldorf-Weeze anyhow, we decided to go ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – hmm, occupation?Foreign journalists or people working in the fields related are not very welcome in Morocco and especially in Western Sahara. So writers of any kind usually tend to claim some other title when asked for occupation.
Before going to Laayoune couple of days back me and my friend had stayed in Agadir for two days, walking in every possible direction, so we already knew our way to the beach (not always did we know the way back, but that’s already a different story). And we also knew that there’s a... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – back to AgadirWe left Laayoune at about 1900, the time which happened to be the exact time in the bus schedule as well. That was surprising, considering so far none of our transportation in Morocco had been on-time. Quite refreshing, isn’t it?
This time, it wasn’t just the locals and the two of us in the bus. The third tourist in Laayoune, the English teacher was heading back to Agadir as well.
Like on our way from Agadir to Laayoune, we again saw something like ten or more police stops. And we were as... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Laayoune, Western Sahara (meeting with Islam)„My name is Islam,” said the local guy from Laayoune couple of minutes after starting a conversation with us. He had come to speak to us in order to practice English and talk to foreigners in Laayoune. And it was quite obvious we weren’t from around there due to our skin color and hair.
Islam has a dream, the American dream. He wants to go to the United States of America and work as an auto mechanic, occupation he knew quite much about, having worked on the same job in Laayoune since young a... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Laayoune, where’s the snitch?Upon making the decision to go to Western Sahara all I really expected to see was a usual bomb-hole. And what we saw during our first hour of stay there, it was exactly what I expected. But once we got to the “right side” of the town, it was as nice as Agadir or new town in Marrakech, why not. And in this part of the town there was really no sign of anything Western Sahara could represent. We found ourselves a hotel, paid something like 200 Dirhams for it again and except for the missing picture... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Laayoune, Western SaharaFortunately by the time we got to Laayoune, the sun was already up and after a cold night in the bus we were starting to warm up. Besides the sandy football field with dozens of too many people were kicking the ball back and forth (as you can see, I’m not a huge football fan, shoot me) there was a closed cafeteria, shop for carpets and closed office for SupraTours (office for one of the normal bus companies), nearby we also noticed an internet cafe.
Before anything else we decided to smoke s... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – off to Laayoune, Western SaharaWestern Sahara was annexed with Morocco in 1976 and about half of the native population fled to Algeria where most of them still reside in five specially created refugee camps. No countries have officially recognized the country. „A guerrilla war with the Polisario Front contesting Rabat's sovereignty ended in a 1991 UN-brokered cease-fire; a UN-organized referendum on final status has been repeatedly postponed. In April 2007, Morocco presented an autonomy plan for the territory to the UN, which... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – Agadir, a place for tourists?Remember that in Morocco, taking one wrong turn might result in a number of wrong turns (in which cases you won’t even be able to decide on the last turn, confusing, eh?). And by taking the bus by a wrong company which cost more, took more time and was more uncomfortable than the “right” bus, we didn’t really reach Agadir but its transportation center (Inezgane) about 12km away from Agadir. The station for the better buses is also about 12 km from the center of the town, but these stations are s... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara – trip to AgadirGetting to the bus station is usually easy, you just look for signs to "Gare routiere". But in Morocco, in many cities, there seem to be at least two different bus stations. One for stupid people and one for just a bit smarter ones. Or okay, I could say that one is for poor people and the other is for rich people, but that would be a plain lie. The main difference there is – the busses in one station are old, ugly and if it catches fire, I guess it’s a normal thing. And in the same bus station, ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney To Morocco and Western Sahara - Welcome to Marrakech!The name Marrakech comes from a Berber language and means a Land of God. With its one million inhabitants the city is divided between two parts – the new town (Gueliz) and the old town (Medina).
Couple of decades ago Marrakech not only was the name of the city, but referred to the country itself. Morocco as a country was known by many as the Kingdom of Marrakech.
Marrakech airport has been built to use solar energy to heat and power the building. While we were there, the screen showing a... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownJourney to Morocco and Western Sahara – Düsseldorf WeezePlanes, trains, buses, taxis – after more than 70 hours of travelling using all of these modes of transportation, I’m back. Big as hell, twice as ugly, as they say.
November 23rd 2008 – for the first time this year we experience snowstorms in Estonia. Just to get to the bus station after a birthday party of my Morocco travel buddy turned out to be a survival trip. I had no ears and my head was turning into a ball of ice – that’s what it felt like anyhow and considering I didn’t need a joint ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownNovember 24, 2008 – trip to Morocco & West-SaharaA friend of mine has asked me quite a few times if I’d like to go to Morocco with him. He’s been there before but thought that even though it shouldn’t be too dangerous, he wouldn’t like to take the trip to West-Sahara, more specifically Laayoune alone. Last time he was in Morocco his bus caught fire, go figure. I do hope it won’t happen this time, at least not while I’m there. Or if it does, I hope I can at least get a few good shots of it.
If I remember correctly (well, I got my friend to ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownAnd the journey begins...Until now I’ve usually gone abroad about once a year. Main destination has been France. I’ve hitch-hiked, taken 12-hour night trains and of course, used a bit more comfortable way of traveling – floating through air on planes.
The upcoming plans however have just a bit different expectations, mainly frequency-wise. I intend to go to a new trip every 2 months if not a lot more often and write about it, show you pictures of the destinations, videos and a lot more. I’m not a plan-ahead guy so I ... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your ownTo Hitch-hike or not to hitch-hike?Just to get this blog started, here's one article about my trip couple of years ago.
Traveling from Estonia to Spain and back, covering about 8000km altogether, passing through Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Germany and France, is not the easiest trip to take, is it? Might be, but try doing it by hitch-hiking all the way and by never staying the night in some hotel, but rather using alternative ways.
What is hitch-hiking anyway? In many countries it is recognized as an alternative way of trav... read moreIf you like it - Digg it | Add to My Yahoo | Add to Google Reader | Add to Del.ICIO Read comments (0) or add your own
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