August 18 _ So I am off again in a couple of weeks- London>Turkey (a bit more than a month)>Bulgaria>Paris and back to London for a day and home. I am very much looking forward to it and will be updating this blog as before BUT it will be intermittent as I am going to depend on internet cafes and they are fewer than before. Also I am not taking an internet device or smart phone. I'm too old school and will only be taking a camera. One device to look after and keep charged and thats fine. In the middle of the trip is a three week period I will be hiking along the Meditearaen Coast of Turkey in a beautiful and rural area so my opportunities to go on the internet will be limited.

That's fine. I will probably do as before and update my journal (by that I mean write in a notebook - nothing electronic) every evening to help me rememeber so many of the details that I would otherwise forget and then when I find an internet cafe and am inclined to spend some time there I will update this blog with pictures added when I get home. I enjoy doing the blog but it definitely takes second place to being and seeing where I am and meeting new people.

If anyone is curious I will be in London a day and then off to Istanbul for a week or so then to the Cappadocia area of Turkey for two and a half days and then I take an overnight bus (supposed to be a different and interesting experience in Turkey) to the coast where I walk for about three weeks and then fly to Sofia, Bulgaria where I will be for about two days and then to Paris to stay with a friend, Jean-Baptiste, from when I did a camino in Spain. Several days in paris and then the eurostar high speed train under the channel with an afternoon and evening in London and home the next day.

and so it goes