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PART THREE – THE ZAGREB EXPERIENCE

I arrived back in Zagreb at five in the morning and walked the familiar path to my hostel. I entered and chatted with Pontius at reception for a bit and put my bags in storage before heading to the back of the bar and waiting for Mic to wake up and join me. Continue reading “Stuck In Zagreb – Part 3”

Once I finally actually left Sofia the plan was to meander my way to the UK where I would fly out of Glasgow at the end of May to return to the US for the weddings I would be attending in the summer. I had several of my stops already figured out, as I would be meeting up Continue reading “Jurassic Belgrade”

My glorious return to Sofia was mostly comprised of three things:

Games, Baths, and Food

So be prepared for a lot mention of each of those things in this post.

It was a really weird feeling when I arrived back in Sofia after two and a half months of bouncing around the Balkans. I got off my bus Continue reading “Ping-Pong Park”

It was dark.

The lights were all out.

Nobody was home.

So we waited.

We walked along, looking for a better vantage point, wanting to be prepared when the battle began. We spoke with an innkeeper we met along the road. He told us of the two battles that had already been fought earlier in the 
Continue reading “A Battle Of Lights And Lasers”

When I had searched for a hostel in Belgrade none that were available my first night in town really stood out to me so I only booked a single night in a hostel near the bus station and decided that I would evaluate my accommodations the next day. I arrived in the evening and after being pointed in the right direction Continue reading “The Famed Nightlife Of Belgrade”

Upon boarding the bus to bring me from Bratislava to Budapest I got into a dispute with the guy who checked me in. When I booked my ticket online I had gone ahead and paid the fifty cents or whatever it was for my baggage, but the guy said there was no record of my payment Continue reading “COCAINE, POT, MDMA…”

While in Vienna I heard from my friends that I met in Skopje, and they offered to let me stay with them when I arrived in Bratislava. Once my bus pulled into town I waited at the bus stop for a while and then was met by Jane, who took me on a walk through Bratislava’s old Continue reading “Flipping Coasters and Frequenting Pubs”

I have several bones to pick with Vienna so I figured I would start this post off by listing them. So here they are:

Vienna you are too beautiful. Your citizens are too kind and welcoming. Your museums are too big. Your public transportation is too convenient. Your streets are too clean. Your food is too tasty. Continue reading “Complaints About Vienna”

I discovered when buying my bus ticket from Ljubljana to Vienna that I would have to have a layover in Zagreb. I was not totally disappointed by this news as it meant that I would get to see my Zagreb family again. Instead of the two hour minimum layover I gave myself a layover of about six hours so Continue reading “Questions For Travelers”

A couple hours after finally leaving Zagreb my bus pulled into the station in Ljubljana, Slovenia where I was to stay the next four nights. After following my map to the hostel and checking in I went out for a quick dinner of pizza at the nearest pub and then returned to my hostel where I got settled Continue reading “Put Your Singing Hats On”