Africa, Asia and Greece

Do you all remember the story of Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Ann? No? Read it. Think about it. And think about our blog ok?
Now that that's settled lets talk about our travels. So, when we left Cairo, we left Africa. The next day we landed in Istanbul, we landed in Europe. That night, for coffee we went to Istanbul, we went for coffee in Asia. Three continents in two days. That's pretty BA.
So in Turkey we spent some time outside of Istanbul and were able to see the incredible natural pools at Pammukale, the incredible catholic ruins at Cappadocia and, of course, Ephesus. A crazy amount of history, biblical and otherwise.
We spent that night on a fantastic sleeping train in a cabin, complete with beds, that took us from Istanbul to Xanthi, Greece where we met a wonderful couch surfer Panagiotis. From Xanthi, our plan was to hitchhike to Thessaloniki and we tried, but only got as far as Kavala, where we were picked up by an amazing man Gregorios. Kavala is great and if you ever come, maybe you too can experience spending 68 Euro on cleaning your clothes. Great. Wonderful. We shop at Goodwill and cleaning them has just doubled the amount of money we spent on them in the first place. Patience.
Life is good and we're heading to Athens tonight.

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