Back to the country of constant discoveries

Evening, 5th of January. Me. Sitting in the train and trying to memorise events and feelings of being at home.
6 am 6th of January. Donetsk. Donets was quite dull and grey ad sooo cold. I was shocked to see a destroyed train station, I guess they are rebuildig it for Euro 2012, but anyway it looked scary.
I had a description of how to get to the airport from Train station, but that wasnt that pleasant - trolley, then walking, then bus, then again long long way of walking. I had 6 hours till airport so decided not to take a taxi and just enjoy Donetks. Unfortunately it wasnt so enjoyable.
Anyway 8 am. Finally airport and more then 5 hours till my flight. No internet, cold and boring. I donno how I survived those 5 hours, but the main concern was ahead. I still didnt know if its for sure that I wont have problems with entering the country, all those visa stuff is just freaking me out. But luckily everything was very good. So with lots of bottles of alcohol that I bought in DutyFree for my friends and extremely heavy luggage I landed in Istanbul. Luckily the weather was quite nice.
So 5 pm, 6th of January I am finally at Taksim in Istanbul with extremely heavy and broken luggage but happy to be back. That day was full of adventures also. I met Katya who is also on her itership in Istanbul right now. We had nice chat in interns house and absolutely crazy night with tekila, parties and cucumbers :)
Next day sitting in the kitchen and having lunch we were trying to collect all events and stuff that we did in Istiklal last night!! That was crazy but funny.
Sunday, 7th of January. I was invited by a girl whom I met on ATEMCO, Burcu, to stay at her home and meet her family. Though I was extremely tired and sleepy, I decided to go. This time I just couldnt carry my suitcase any more, so took an extremely expensive taxi. Evening was very good. Her house is so cozy and cute - good diner, nice talks, tiring but nice night out with her sister and mom - girls night in Galata Bridge with live music. I enjoyed my day with her a lot :) Thank you, my dear Burcu for awesome time in Istanbul :)


Finally next day my trip to lovely and homey Bursa. Usually travelling by bus takes aroud 4 hours and 1 more hour within the city, but by ferry it takes me 2 hours and 15 minutes in the city. So of course I ve chose to go by ferry. But as you know how lucky I am, they just caceled ferries due to the weather conditions, so again with extremely heavy luggage Elzara is going to the main bus station. 1 hour and I am in the bus, 4 hours and I am in Bursa and 1 more hour and I am FINALLY at home.
New Year adventures have finished...