A list from Istanbul

  • Days: 18
  • Cities: 7
  • Countries: 5 (3 if you’re not counting SARs)
  • Continents:2 (3 if you count the Arabian Peninsula)
  • Time zones: 2
  • Beds: 6
  • Flights: 5
  • Internet cafes hacked: 1
  • Powerbars left: 0, yummy
  • Photos: 179
  • Photos per day: 9.667 (it was pretty rainy in Hong Kong)
  • Percentage of Germans who think I’m German: 100% (Literally, this guy from Hamburg came up to me in the hostel in Hong Kong and said, out of the blue, “You are from Berlin?” He was quite confused when I told him I was from California. And no, I wasn’t wearing my Berlin shirt, or doing anything Berlin-related.)
  • Number of hostel staff singing show tunes very loudly in Istanbul right now: at least 1