belson

I took the Dogu express to Kars. It took 35 hours and it was fun. I shared kupé with a old lady who fed me half the time and half the time she was listened to turkish music on her walk-man-mobilephone and crying. Unfortunally she did'nt spoke english so the communication was a bit limited. I think she was crying because she left her doughter in Istanbul and felt sad about that. And it's understandable. 

On the train I mostley listened to the sound of the train (tadam) and read my novel wich feels even more confused than before. I think in some ways I can compare it with a brain: Just a mess of thoughts and nothing makes sense. And that's also a point to make - that nothing makes sense, nothing has a purpose - or something like that.

This is my view from the train:

Eastern Turkey is very beatiful. A lots of mountains, and some snow.

And this is the lady:

I loved her food!

(sorry about the size of the pictures, something is wrong with this thing)

Kars was strange. I don't know what I expected but it was nothing like that.

I arrived in the middle of the night, it was cold, deserted and dark and no taxis to be found and I had no map ... great. Anyway the night gard or something gave me a ride to a hotel and I had a good night sleep. 

Next day I left for Georgia, I missed the direct bus because I sleept to long. Instead I took the bus to Ardhane, then bus to Posof, then taxi to border, walked over the border, it was fun. Then negotiated hard with somekind of taximan. He gave me a ride to Vale in his car that smelled very strong of gas. In Vale he put me on a bus with a lot of georgian staring at me. The bus took me to Akhaltsikhe and from there I took minibus to Tibilisi! I arrived and found a great homestay owned by a nice old lady. Then I was very tired.

 My first impression of Georgia:

-Lots of cows on the road

-Lots of holes in the road

-Lots of mountains, it's so beutiful, it make my wanna cry

-The woman next to me doing the "cross-sign" every 10th minute

-Nobody understand what I'm saying, but it's okey

I wanna go to Kazbegi  in the mountain tomorrow but I don't know if I can, right now I'm freezing badly, problebly sick, and I also need to fix my chinese visa tomorrow, fun ...

over and out