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Thyra Travels: Boozin’ in Belgrade
After a chance encounter, myself, and my friend Chronis from Greece, got a free ride and housing in Belgrade! I wasn’t even planning on entering Serbia, just staying in Bosnia. But, when two random Serbians offered us all this I said: “wait for me!”. We rode in a little car over the border, only getting pulled over to give a…
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Thyra Travels: Chilling and Maxing in BiH
As always, heading where the wind takes me, I arrived in the early afternoon in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH). Thus began two extremely relaxing weeks where I read books, played cards, and made tons of friends. Mostar Mostar is a super cute little town, known for their old bridge with a huge arch in the center of the old…
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Bulgaria: Hello Summer 2019, meet Thyra
We here! Hello cobblestone roads, red rooftops, and me making pretentious and generalized European statements. Watch out Europe, the American is in town. I arrived on the bus from Istanbul in the evening, walking from the terminal to the hostel where I will be volunteering. I fell into a positive, feminine environment with three other international volunteers and a kind,…
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Thyra Travels: Hanging in Hong Kong 2019
Lazied through Hong Kong before jetting off to Turkey. I decided to go to Hong Kong first because 1) I have never been 2) International flights are cheaper from there than Manila and 3) why not?! I packed up my things, spent TWO hours in Manila traffic (20 km distance), and was on my way. I arrived in HK around…