Girl Travels World

“What one do you like?” Mirgim asks, holding out two items. One is shiny and clean - “This one, it is 300 years old, I think, but I don’t know what pape it is.” I turn over the amult of Virgin Mary and look at the clear etching of the pope, wishing I knew my European history a little bit better.

“This one,” he says, taking out another Virgin Mary, “is more expensive, older, but small.” It is another amulet - half the size of the other one, so old and well worn you can barely make out that it is a emlem, with the greenish tint of old Roman coins. “It is a gift for you…for me, I have many others. Pick.”

It is amazing what difference a day makes.
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Sorry for the randomness of this entry guys, it is from my email to Charlie. I only have about 30 min of light left and I plan to make it back to the hotel by the time it is dark.

First of all, I met two guys from Ecuador and Venezuela who went to
Carnagie Mellon who were on their way to Kotor on the bus yesterday.
We ended up getting an apartment and wandering up the city walls on a
hike and eating dinner.

So, this morning, we make the bus not knowing the bus schedule, by
like 3 minutes. It was awesome. However, one of the guys cursed it
by saying it was going to be a good day because we got to the capital
of Montengro and two very unhelpful women informed them that they had
to wait until the next day to go to Kosovo and I, well, I was fucked.
There was no bus to Albania. None. Despite what the tourist people
told me in Kotor (and they were also very unhelpful/unknowning), and
LP, whatever route there was, it was now closed.
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Onto the next adventure in about 30 minutes to the coast of Montenegro. I am amazingly unknowing about this newly independent country, with the recent changes and skant information in my LP. I asked around here and despite living about ... [Continue reading this entry]

Again, another super short entry. After a few depressing nights in Mostar where we saw the bridge and the nearby pilrimmage site to visit Virgin Mary, we headed via a train, ferry, bus and another ferry to Korcula, with a fantastic ... [Continue reading this entry]

I have wanted to do this trip for a long time...still, nothing can quite prepare you for entering a place where, just 12 years ago, it was a war zone. The trip to Bosnia started off on a less than ideal ... [Continue reading this entry]

"Are you ready to go?" Charlie asked, grabbing his jacket. "Sure, I am starv-" A loud boom cut me off mid sentence. Charlie and I looked at each other. 5 seconds later, a huge explosion from less than 50 ... [Continue reading this entry]

Zagreb is one of those odd travel cities on my itinerary...it was on it, then it wasnt and then all of a sudden, it was again...for ten hours. Charlie and I took the train (made it with 10 minutes to spare! ... [Continue reading this entry]

I am a firm believer in Travel Karma. Actually, I am a believer in Karma all around, but there is nothing to prove it to me more than when I am on the road. Most recent case in point? In ... [Continue reading this entry]