Summary

Monday 16^th of July



A short summary



Ok, I'll put some random last thoughts from the trip in here now, as an overall summary. I'll probably forget half of the things I wanted to say but that's life.



FOOD
Some local foods I've eaten during the last six weeks:
Borsh soup, cabbage rolls, a local special pastry near Vilnius (sorry, no idea of the name), egg plant salad, bean soup, corn specialities (you'll hear about this more later, I'll promise, but for now it's a secret), Turkish pizza, kebap, Turkish ”sticky” ice cream, baklava... damn, I know I'm forgetting many right now!



BEST PLACES
I think the best place for me was the Transfagarasan Road. Normally it's hard to say, now it's quite obvious actually. Driving in a perfect environment (I love driving), hiking, awesome views, good company, great food... I don't know, what else you need?
Maybe second best was Zakopane. For the cities, it's hard to rate them. I liked Riga, Lviv, cities in Transylvania, Istanbul... really hard to say. I saw so many beautiful old towns, castles, views...
Romania and Ukraine were both positive surprises. Both definetaly worth visiting!



PEOPLE
Wow, this is also a tough one. I think people all around Eastern Europe are awesome. I already told you about the two grannies I didn't like, the rest of them I liked. Ukraine and Romania were maybe especially nice?
Most beautiful women? ;) Riga, Poland, Ukraine. Wow.
Now here's an interesting fact: From ALL the hostels I was in, there was only one in which I did NOT meet Australian guys! Even in the hostel in Sighisoara where there was only one guy and me, he was, of course, from Australia.
I met a huge amount of German guys also in Ukraine, and watched many games with them. But that was mostly because of the games of course.



TRAVELLING ALONE
...was even better than expected! I've only travelled alone for shorter times so far, but it was actually awesome. So I don't know which is better, alone or with friends. Both are great! And it was great to travel with Mika the last two weeks also!
When you're alone, you get to know a lot more people, that's for sure. In hostels it's mainly the fellow travellers, with couch surfing you get to know the local people and culture better. And it's a really good way to travel in many ways, but at the same time it takes more energy than hostels, because you're all the time being in someones home as a guest, and you have to think of them in everything you do. It's the same (kind of) when travelling alone or with friends, alone you can do and go where ever you feel like.



BUDGET
Total budget for 6,5 weeks (including everything, flights, accomodation, food, transportation, shopping etc.) was 1550 euros. With that I'm more than satisfied!



Ok, there would be much more to say, but I think I'm done here now. Tired of writing, and time to enjoy the last night now. Thank you for all of the readers, hopefully you enjoyed the trip with me! I also noticed that it takes much more energy to write the blog when you're alone. When travelling with friends, you don't have to be the one always taking care of it. So sometimes I think I just reported matter-of-factly of thing that had happened, hopefully it wasn't too boring...



All in all, an awesome trip! Let's see when the next one takes place... but for now, thanks, sorry and good bye! :D