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TURKEY TRIP REVIEWS

Since joining Thorntree I have been delighted to read so many wonderful trip reviews.These are most often full of the small details so important and useful to independent travellers.How sad then that in time these slip down the forum pages and get lost or forgotten about.All that help…all that typing!So I have trawled through the last 12 months and collated all the trip reviews and,after equal amounts of bullying and flattery,Zabba(mmwwahh!)has agreed to make this a sticky,so it will now be at the top of the Turkey forum page,easily found(even for us computer dimwits!) with no need to trawl around the site.
Please check through and see that I have added yours,if I haven’t then please accept my apologies and add it on.If you notice others that are missing add those too.(I'm only human!)
If you owe us a review to repay the help and advice received from the forum then get typing now!... more »

Bus from Turkey to Armenia

Has anyone travelled from Turkey to Armenia by bus lately? The official sites say the border is closed but there are bus schedules! Looking to go from somewhere like Diyarbakir or Kars or Yerevan.

Living in Olomouc for 3 months?

My boyfriend and I are planning to live somewhere in central or eastern Europe later this year, and as of right now we are leaning towards Olomouc after considering several options and doing research....mostly because we want to be in an affordable and attractive mid-sized city, that is not overly homophobic as we are a gay couple.

Would you guys recommend Olomouc? Or another Czech city (besides prague due to the size/affordability factor), or any other mid-sized central/eastern European city for that matter?

Do enough people speak English that we'd be able to communicate?

Thank you SO much! All comments/recommendations would be very appreciated.

Russian visa denials

Hello,

I'm a paranoid person, and was hoping for some reassurance. How often are student visas for Russia denied? I don't know why I would be denied...and I went there last year for the same reason and had no problems in getting it, but I guess I'm just always thinking of the doomsday scenario haha. For some reason I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could think about was not getting the visa. I applied for a 90 day student visa through the Consulate in NYC with an invitation from Herzen University.

Thanks.

Fethiye

I'm flying into Dalaman in September. I will be heading to Kabak and Kas, but my flight lands quite late so I plan to stay in Fethiye on the first night. Can anyone recommend a pension or bed and breakfast for one night?

Thanks
Jude

my 4 weeks of balkans experience

I think there must me some interesting information about my trip from Slovenia till Kosovo..

SLOVENIA: u can do lake Bled in a day coming from Austria....(obviously it is a good place for hikes and relax that could keep you there longer).
Ljubliana is possibly one of the cutest and most interesting capitals of the Balkans..
CROATIA: I did just Zagreb and I enjoyed the various museum options, see the museum of naif art and museum of broken hearts....nice place to spend more than a couple of days...
SERBIA: I stopped in Sremski Karlovci for 2 days cause of wine culture,also great as historical and cultural destination even for a day...Belgrade, is sold as a party place but has some interesting but not great sites to visit...my highlight maybe was art podrum that was a great wine bar.....
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: I crossed it visiting only Sarajevo and Mostar, from Belgrade to Sara... more »

Camping gas / stove fuel in Podgorica?

Hello all,

We are going to camp in the Durmitor national park in August. We are coming to Montenegro by airplane, so we will need to buy liquid fuel in Podgorica and we need to be sure that it will fit to our stove. We know three types of liquid fuel cartridges: pierceable, clip-on and screw-in. We have a screw-type stove so we need screw-in cartridges.

- Do you know a shop in Podgorica where camping gas / stove fuel is sold?
- Do they sell screw-in cartridges?
- What is their street address? We will not have much time so we'll need to find the shop quickly.
- What are their hours of operation?

Thanks in advance :-)

Chinese visa on arrival at Sost border for Russian citizen

Hello! I am a citizen of Russia living in Pakistan. If i go to the Sost border between Pakistan and China, will the Chinese authorities give me visa on arrival? How much is the fees?

Why I love Croatia

Hi all travel enthusiast!

As a passionate traveller, and inspired by all your posts, I cam across an idea to start this thread which will be general, but -hopefully - with useful information as well.
So, the main idea is to answer the question - Why I love Croatia?

... and I will start...

... I am not a tourist there, but rather a traveller... with its uniqueness, Croatia always unveils its hidden gems like best-kept secrets...
South Dalmatian islands...
Istrian inland...
Kvarner villas...
Gorski kotar woods...
Slavonian food...

I do not travel there, I reinvent myself.