Blogs from Slovenia, Europe - page 86

One of the more interesting challenges that a person has to deal with when they arrive in a foreign country is logistics—the movement of yourself from one place to another. There a few factors that make this difficult: one, you usually know nothing about the city in which you have just arrived; two, the maps that you get at tourist offices are almost ALWAYS ridiculously inaccurate, hard to read, and maybe a little better than the map that you might have from the travel guidebook that you purchased before leaving; three, language makes any type of communication and understanding exponentially more difficult. Then if you’re attempting to use the public transportation; forget about it! You’re in for an adventure every time you step out the door. The product of this logistics nightmare usually means that your ... read more

First, The Traveler’s Manifesto for the next year and a half. Let’s lay out the initial plan and see what happens to the plan as it morphs and the world turns as I travel across its great expanse. For a quick summary, I’m currently in Ljubljana, Slovenia studying for the next 5 months. Thenceforth, I am planning on traveling to various countries in Eastern Europe namely Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, the Ukraine, and Estonia before moving into Asia. The first stop in Asia will be Russia likely followed by India, and then Nepal if the border has been reopened. From there I’d like to tour a little bit in Tibet followed by S. China, Mayanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, parts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Then I’ll move onto the land ... read more

Photos of Slovenia 2004... read more

18.07.2004 Postojna, Slovenia FAREWELL I decided to leave all the success and all the material things that attaches me to the life and identity at home and go on the road towards unknown. I am going to look for wisdom, without money in my pockets and to the unknown places to unknown people. I am going on the road to a complete freedom, without wants and plans, with no hand watch and with no thought about tomorrow. "You will never know how your mother feels. You do not understand that with your departure is leaving part of me and that this part of me is tearing when I see an empty bed and asking myself if my son still lives," my mom told me today and we both cried. Father hugged me and I saw a ... read more

The bus is the best way to get to Bled apparently unless you have plenty of time then go by train. Not sure how that works but we got on the bus. I think costing 1000 SIT as everything seems to. It took between 1 and 2 hours to get there and when we arrived we headed straight to our apartment to dump our bags. We had an apartment for five as we like space, or some mates failed to come. This time we couldn’t allow others to share, as it wasn’t a hostel. The girl on reception at the sister hotel was hot, a definite 11/11 (new scale). We was going to stay in Bled for 5 days and that would be the end of our pre-booked accommodation, after that we need to book fast ... read more