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Travel life
By Karel Kosman,
Freelance Translator,
Prague, Czech Republic
travel at kenax cz
www.islandhoppinginthephilippines.com
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Karel’s letters written during travelling
Letters written when working while travelling, part 4.
Travel life
So it was a nice drive through the mountains on my way off the island.
I was sorta stuck in its middle, in the capital city (long story) for
about three months. Various adventures, like the police thought I was
a spy and demanded to examine all my electronics, but finally got out
of there so that I could make it to my beloved coast. Took a special route
to the port Lemassol which I haven’t taken yet and spent the weekend on
Mount Olympus, the island’s highest point.
There was still snow here and there, but it was a nice refreshing
change to get back to some cooler temperature. It was so cold in fact
that my car battery got too weak to start. I was parked on a bit of a
slope and thought I’d try jump starting the beast, but that didn’t work
and ended up practically crashing into some bushes. Fortunately I’m a
good tech head and rewired things, using my caravan batteries for extra
juice.
Got to the port but it turns out that the price they quoted me
did not include any port fees. I must have phoned them about five times
confirming this and that, and you’d think that of all those times they
could have mentioned the port costs. Like when you buy a plane ticket,
they also mention the airport fees and various taxes. So I had to spend
an extra 300 Euro, which pretty well drained my account to zero. All that
hard work and saving up money and now I am back down to zero again. I
have to chuckle at my occasional predicaments.
But should have about 1500 Euro coming in very soon, so will just
have to survive. Have to send my truck by ship and fly out separately
(new goofy island policy). Meanwhile I have a translation so I’m trying
to meet that schedule while on this hectic move. At least another 500
Euro in the bank. So glad to have this new customer, even though I’m so
sick of translating, but the income is appreciated. Getting better and
better and eventually hope to bid on the Euro projects myself, increasing
my price in the process.
Today went for my first swim of the year and its nice to be back
at the sea. Water surprisingly warm for this time of year it seems. Will
hang out in Athens until some payments come in and will have some gas
money. That should give me about a week to scope out Athens and plan my
trip for the rest of the country. Giving myself a month to get to Bulgaria
and very much looking forward to it. Hope to convert my truck to kitchen
grease so that I will not have to pay for gas anymore, and lower my costs
even further. So with my increasing amount of work and decreasing costs,
I hope to finally start putting some savings in the bank. Never want to
live through this poverty again and this will be the first time in my
life I’ll be actually putting some savings into the bank.
Well, that’s the update.
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Island Hopping in the Philippines
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Karel’s letters written
during travelling |
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46. The ONLY Thai girl I am attracted to |
45. Miscellaneous letters |
44. I have always felt I will be a writer one day... |
43. About freelancing and travelling |
42. Thai girls are like demon possessed little witches |
41. Living on a mystical island of Koh Phangan in Thailand |
40. From Malaysia to Thailand |
39. From Laos back to Thailand |
38. How to publish a book |
37. Back in Thailand |
36. Feeling increasingly uncomfortable here on the island in Malaysia |
35. My belongings |
34. Staying in Malaysia |
33. About running a blog |
32. A short travel update |
31. Planning to publish a book about my travels |
30. In Thailand, God’s hand |
29. Getting ready to go to Asia. In the airport |
28. Escaping from Galia’s place |
27. About Bulgarians, earnings, plans |
26. Starting to earn more after approaching thousands of translation agencies |
25. About writing and publishing content online |
24. How to find really cheap plane tickets |
23. The girlfriend: would like to find THE ONE |
22. Still staying in Bulgaria but planning to go to Thailand |
21. Travel
outline |
20. About
translation industry |
19. About
female friends |
18. About
computer, online marketing, translation, CAT tool |
17. About
blabber - waste of time. About wanting to be a writer. |
16. About
God |
15. More
about software sales |
14. More
travel updates |
13. Staying
at a pension |
12. About
borders etc. |
11. Software
sales |
10. Travel
update |
09. Translation
job industry |
08. Partying
is a waste of time |
07. How
much they pay etc. |
06. Translator
charges, programming etc. |
05. Working
as a translator and travelling |
04. Travel
life |
03. Why
NOT to cheat Google... |
02. About
opportunities for working as a freelancer |
01. About
advantages of working as a freelancer |
Working While Travelling |
26. Gone
treeplanting (September 8, 2008) |
25. First
friends visiting me to Cyprus (February 29, 2008) |
24. Staying
in Cyprus (December 09, 2007) |
23. Escaping
the Cyprus heat (February 8, 2007) |
22. Escape
from boredom (February 8, 2007) |
21. Barelling
to Bodrum (November 20, 2006) |
20. Staying
in Stoliv, Montenegro (October 2, 2006) |
19. Arriving
to Montenegro (August 22, 2006) |
18. Traveling
through Croatia (August 9, 2006) |
17. The
trip begins - off to Croatia! (2006) |
16. How
to Live in a Caravan |
15. How
to Connect to Internet While Traveling |
14. How
to construct a caravan - Beautification |
13. How
to use solar panels to electrify your caravan |
12. How
to construct a caravan |
11. Designing
the caravan |
10. Back
to Czech - buying a travel van (April 10, 2004) |
9. Mexico
Trip - Off to Yosemite and Beyond (December, 2003) |
8. Mexico
Trip - Getting a Driver’s License (December, 2003) |
7. How
to Buy a Used Car (December, 2003) |
6. Mexico
Trip (December 14, 2003) |
5. Traveling
through Bulgaria (July 20 - Aug. 4, 2002) |
4. Czech
Republic: My Reflections |
3. My
life in Prague |
2. My
flat in Prague |
1. Dream
of working while travelling |
Published - August 2012
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