May 2010
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girls' night out and the sky over Montenegro (part...
and there it was - some real vacation for us. we slept till noon and spent the rest od the day on the beach outside of Budva. in the evening Vuk went to see a football match with his friends and Anna, Ivana and I had a little of a girls’ night out. we went to some fancy bar and had Cosmopolitans and other crazy expensive girlish drinks.
after that we all met in Hacjenda Club. there was a...
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rakija, cheap ciggs and some real vacation in...
sleeping in the shop has one real disadvantage - you don’t have any shower included. but fortunately Dubravko’s shop was placed close to the beach and he told us there are some showers near by. as I discovered later - none of them was working. anyway, there was still some water in the sea, and so my hair were salty for the next week… but who cares.
Anna adopt two cactuses and we...
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Polish bus and Croatian floor (part 6)
when we got up the next morning we still were in pretty bad situation, ‘cos even if a car had stopped on our station, it wasn’t going anywhere near Dubrovnik. people were cheering up for us but it was changing nothing at all. even two police officers wished us luck (later somebody told me that it’s forbidden to hitchhike in Croatia…).
and then I saw a bus. soon I realized...
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how to sleep in a tent on a gas station? (part 5)
we got to Split at 10:20 pm. I checked the time lighting a cigarette, after we discovered that we are on Vukovarska street, but not quite in the place we should be. I texted our host and after a while he promised his friends were coming for us by car. so we waited.
when they finally found us, they took us straight to Adham’s place and it didn’t seem very far. we had a proposition...
October 2009
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losing a part of myself (part 4)
and so we reached Zagreb. the driver dropped us off on some bus station without any schedule, so we simply waited without knowing how long would it take. to kill the time we were observing the people who were crossing the street. it wouldn’t be so exciting in spite of the fact that there were no lights and cars were going really fast. and somehow people managed to cross this street without...
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do you want a sandwich? (part 3)
the first thing we didn’t know was the fact that the highway from the Hungarian border to Zagreb was rather new and not many people were using it. no trucks for example. so we were stuck on the gas station near the border and not a single car (apart from the one with Croatian plates, but filled to the roof) was going to Croatia. people were going mostly to Slovenia and Italy from there.
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Napoleon in Hungary (part 2)
after Anna’s arrival we prepared the first sign - Chyżne - and stood on the road in front of the BP station looking for the first ride. around 3:30 I asked two guys who stopped on the station if the can take us at least outside of Kraków. they eventually agreed, but they didn’t want to go the main route. now try to imagine some raid in Sierra Nevada… they were driving close to...
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“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting...”
– Lou Erickso
September 2009
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“The profoundest satisfaction in travel is a sense of discovery, the private...”
– Paul Theroux (via continentaldrifters)
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the first delay (part 1)
at first the plan was to set out in the early morning of September 23rd. then it became 1 pm. finally we were sitting at BP gas station on the out-of-the-city side Zakopianka route in Krakow at 3 am. but let me tell you what led us to this.
my friend, who I’m travelling with, lives near Poznan. so she had to hitchhike all the way to Krakow by herself. it would be crazy to make during...
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reisefieber
reisefieber is an expression used for the description of nervous state of mind which is usually suffered by a person who’s going somewhere. it’s connected to I’ll forget something! and I’ll miss my train/bus/plane/ferry!
I’ve never experienced such state of mind, but it’s apparently transferred to my mother. she would forbid me to go anywhere if she only could....
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake....”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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