Friday, September 09, 2005

Slovenia - getting there

This is my travel diary from Slovenia, filling you in on my adventures here in the South-Eastern part of Europe.

So i have been travelling for sth like 3 days now and a lot has happened already. You know how it is with travelling... in normal life you can go 3 days without anything really happening, anything worth mentioning... but while travelling, things start happening, people start appearing and suddenly there are all the stories...

On tuesday evening i took a plane to Berlin (after working till 7, rushing home, packing and rushing to the airport). For future reference ... Schoenefeld airport is not the best place for staying the night. The benches are metallic, uncomfortable as hell, and the whole airport is so "well" airconditioned that you can freeze your toes off... making it absolutely impossible to sleep there. Luckily enough i had my first "meeting-new-people-all-the-time-while-travelling" moment and i found a sardinian guy Mauro, to spend the night with:) He had been, as it turned out, living in Estonia for a year and we had a lot to talk about...

The next morning, when already flying to Slovenia, provided me with another situation, that one of my Dutch friends would call "the Estonian way" - which means getting things for free without asking:) Was sitting next to a boy of about 18 and his father, chatted a little bit and ended up getting a ride from the airport to center of Ljubljana:) ...exchanged contacts...turns out the father is a president and CEO of a computer company...and found use for the first bottle of Vana Tallinnn - just as a thank you for helping me...

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