it was a nice one hour flight and we even got some food on the plane, well actually our flight was canceled but they put us without any problems on the other plane leaving for Cyprus, the least the could do!!!
We got to Lefkosa at like 4 then took a bus to our little town - Girne and found our hostel after some walking around- funny it seems like no one ever knows the way hehe
The first night we didnt do much except eat and sleep.
The next morning we slept in late, the hostel was quite funny, it was small and cosy and the entrance hall was the dormitory we stayed in at the same time just some curtains dividing it from the main room hehe but it was a very nice place to stay and so cheap! Just at night it was a bit cold because there was no heating!
But Cyprus wasnt very cold so it was ok. We even had like 20 degrees one day! and the first day was all rain that wasnt too much fun, but we only took a look around the city - walked around - walked along the peer and up to the little castle!
it was quite nice but then it started to rain and we went back to the dorm and read. Laura was totally focused cause she was reading "a thousand splendid suns" great book, if you havent read it yet, Khaled Hosseini is a Genius!!!
So the 2nd day we had much better weather and decided to go to Greece, we took a dolmus to Lefkosa to the border, crossed it - got a stamp and were happy! but then we had to work our way through the UN buffer zone- and you were not supposed to take pictures - we did it anyways but it was kinda scary- no one was there except for some military cars driving by.
We were glad when we reached the greek border after like 10 min and entered the EU once again :)
The first thing i thought was: what an ugly place! cause the part of the town where we got was not very pretty and we did follow the sign which said town center but never really got there except for a very expensive shopping street. so we send some SMS to our dear family and friends back in Germany since its only 13 cents per SMS cause we were in the EU.
Then we ate some ice cream after we solved the euro problem. We spend all the Euros we still had in the hostel cause he offered us we could also pay with euros and we aprrecitated it so we didnt have to change more money but when we got to Southern Cyprus we discovered that Cyprus. well the EU part has Euros for the past 2 years so changing money once agaiN!!!
After some time we didnt go that far because we were scared we would not find our way back to the border we did finally go back. The border patrol just had a smile for us. And then we were looking for the dolmus back. Walking around aimlessly. No clue where to go. A car stopped us. A car full with americans, asking us if we were americans too cause the driver had a bet with the rest of the people in the car! so too bad we werent!
Later that day we went back to the hostel but our dear manager send us a message he would be sitting on the roof and wanted to talk to us and we should come up and he was drunk he said so we didnt really feel like dealing with him and went down to the peer. Sat down and chew sunflower seeds and talked! Laura and i we can just talk for ages! so funny then later cause some guys came talking to us, we changed the place and went back to the fountain in the center of the town, where we have been sitting before, its a great place!
When it got too cold later that night we went home and to bed in the morning he apologized for sending those messages cause he send many more.
This day we went to Bellapais an old Abbey on top of a hill- which had a great view over the coast and the sea! we didnt really want to leave from there it was so beautiful!
But we did and had dinner in Girne at Yilmaz döner salonu where we went the first evening, the waiter that liked us so much and took pictures with us was there too!
lol
So after that we sat down at the peer again and chew sunflower seeds like all the Turks do!
and all of a sudden a guy comes up to us and he does not know Engl like always hehe so he is talking in turkish some things in understand but if i dont i just talk to Laura and pretend to be translating to her and even if i tell him i dont understand he just goes on with his little monolog!
WE thought ok let him talk. but then he leaves and comes back with his hands behind his back and says surprise with a horrible turkish accent. we were very confused and looked at him so he pulls out 3 bananas and gives one to each of us! so we didnt understand why but we took the banana but we werent allowed to eat it like this, he pealed his and let us take a bite he begged until we did so we all shared his banana for some reason- oh jeez what a dirty mind i have . well solater he took us to his friends , they were sitting a bit away and they didnt speak much engl either. But at least we figured we have a reason to go now!
so we left them there and went to the hostel!
So that was our little vacation- oh wait the next morning. we woke up at 5 cause apparently the shuttle to the airport should be leaving at 6.30 so we went to the bus stop and waiting and some guy came talking to us but then we told him we both have a boyfriend he left lol
so the guards from the casino next door were looking and kinda laughing at us so i went over there and asked them about the shuttle they said there is one at 9. so i thought . fuck that the tourist information guy gave us the wrong infos!
but laura and i we had fun anyways we were singing taylor swift songs-karaoke with my ipod earplugs in the ears - the song "you belong with me" and "an alle ladies " von den Ohrbooten were the hits ! well we say the town awake - sun raising - more people walking around after time passed and distracted and amused some car or motorcycle drivers with our singing!
so finally at 9 there was a shuttle and we left!
In the airport a guy was waving at us- oh who could that be? it was the waiter from our favourite little restaurant he has a band in Hatay and went there - he even gave us a CD lol
So that was it but we also met a turkish military guy that spoke german fluently and stayed in north iraq for a couple of month ! so lots of new people! and we did have lots of fun too but it was nice to be back in Ankara at 13 o clock sunday!
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