3rd week: Istanbul, Stuck in the Sand@midnight, Safranbolu, Chilling @ Turkish Coast of the Black Sea

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[Susanne] Slowly slowly we are getting into the travelers modus. It is a kind of metamorphosis, from “I need a shower every day and a new shirt” to “Wow, 3 liters of semi-warm water are enough to make me feel clean!” J

I am writing this right after sunset while listening to a Turkish traditional band playing for a wedding at Çakrazat the Black Sea.

Since our last post we have been travelling from Bulgaria to Turkey. On the Bulgarian side we passed beautiful bay of Sozopol(staying in yacht harbor; Emma was admired just as the million-dollar-boats ;)) and the Natural Park ‘Strandzha’that used to be the former green line of the Ostblock wıth ıts tragıc past and present (check also our Trip-Story No.2: Crossing the Borders of the former Iron Curtain).

3rd Trip-Story: Building a MacGyver-Light-Spot ;)

The 3rd Trip-Story shows how we managed to illuminate our bathroom with bits and pieces from the hardware store.

Ingredients for our MacGyver-Light-Spot

Read here the full story: http://tsjapontour.blogspot.com.tr/p/trip-stories.html

Antonia posts again

Hallo Ik Ben in Turkije ! En heb 2 dagen  geleden  een moskee bekekenenen .

Ik ben nu in amasra.en heb een heel spicial avontuur vanavond  beleefd.

Want er was een trouwfeest,ik heb ook wel gekeken, en er was een lied wat heeeeel lang duurde ,

Ik vond het een beetje saai , want het was steeds het zelfde  . maar nu is het gelukkig gedaan en ik ga nu stoppen ga stope daag antonia!!!!!!!! Vinden juie het goed.? Ik ben nu wel al 8 in de plaats van 7  het was  op 

De 11/07/2015.!

2nd Trip-Story: Crossing the Borders of the former Iron Curtain

While passing the former Iron Curtain twice Johann and Antonia asked a lot about the Eastern-Western conflict. Our second Trip-Story shares some insights on the Bulgarian-Turkish border line during the last years: http://tsjapontour.blogspot.com.tr/p/trip-stories.html

Looking forward to your comments.

1st Trip-Story: has been posted

Hi all,
Since we are now on the road for the first weeks, it's now time to start with our trip stories. As requested from some of you I start with our endeavour of How to find someone for welding a protection to our diesel fuel repositories (Trip-Story No. 1) For us it became an unforgetable experience. Hope you enjoy the reading.

Cheers

Torsten

Antonia 1st blog post

Hallo ik vind het heel leuk want we gaan veel zwemmen maar soms is paul ook wel
heel vermoeiend. ik vind dat paul veel roept ik was gisteren in de zwartezee! ik ben
nu in een kampeerplaats en er is een kleine zwimingpoel en daar was ik ook al in.

2nd week: Transsilvania, Carpathian Mountains, Black Sea, Arriving at European Borders

as of now I try to put a map at the beginning of each post
(I also added one for the 1st week)

We are at the Black Sea! Warm like a bathtub the kids love it. We will go along this sea the next three weeks.

Last week started with a high-school visit in the East-Hungarian province capital Kecskemét. Robert teaches German at this school for secondary grade. He shows us around and introduces us to some school traditions. One of these traditions can be seen in the hallways: at every wall and corner hang huge class pictures of every graduated class since the 50ties, including pictures of their teachers. And since Robert already teaches quite some years we admire his I-am-a-serious-teacher-in-suit-pictures on many class memories.

1st week: Point Alpha, Hase's outbreak & new home, family-good-bye, Danubia, enjoying Puszta

The long preparation time is over! We are finally on the road! We are writing this in southern Hungary, in hot Puszta at Klaras and Roberts house, where we are staying for a couple of days. With a delay of 2 days (due to an extra tour to Leuven) we were warmly sent on our trip by Kristin & Benny (thank you so much for taking the time) the morning of Tuesday 7th of July.