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Well, these arent the best circumstances to be updating my blog but at the same time I haven't made time for a couple of weeks so maybe missing that bus was a good thing. To update you on my developments from last time, i am now in the middle of Croatia, I went to find food during a 15minute stop the bus driver had announced to return 10 minutes later to see the bus driving off into the distance. Not so sure where I am. My luggage and the Argentinian guy I am now travelling with are still on the bus to Dubrovnik. Unfortunately he was asleep when I got off due to the awful train trip we had last night where we got absolutely no sleep. Oh and my camera is broken again. But despite my current condition of being sleep deprived and stranded, I wouldn't change a thing. I have officially arrived in Eastern Europe!! I have had a really great couple of days and while the week or so leading up to wasn't the greatest I think its all part of the travel experience.
I don't want to go into too much detail with what I have done as i can't remember but there's a few key things that have happened that have really shaped the last few weeks. Firstly my camera broke again. this time I was in Zurich. I have not taken a photo since.
The camera being broken really changed the focus of my 'siteseeing'. I hit a wall in Rome, I have been travelling for 3 months and I could sense it coming but for a couple of days it became hard to keep it up. The crowds in Rome were very overwhelming and put me off visiting some of the big sites such as the Colosseum. I managed to escape the crowds of the tourists by taking a lot of small back streets and visiting a lot of old churches which was very refreshing. That was until that night I got tstranded in the middle of Rome at midnight without my luggage in the rain and it took me 3 hours to find a hostel as the girl I was staying with was also stranded. I managed to not worry though and everything worked out. Being able to get through a situation like that helped me realise how this trip is helping me to mature which gave me more motivation to keep going. Also in Rome I met an Argentinian guy called Martin who also wanted to travel to eastern Europe.
Now to skim over a few things- I went to the Cinqe Terre and Portofino which were amazing... it was the italy I was wanting to see, amazing old fishing villages on the sides of cliffs and picturesque scenery, if only i had a camera... Torino was really nice and relxing, I slept in about 3 different parks during the day as i was exhausted and the weather was great. Venice was a little disappointing- Too many tourists for the size of the city. Trieste was nice but where I stayed was too far out of town.
Me and MArtin met in Trieste again and travelled to Lubiana in Slovenia, we could instantly tell we were in Eastern Europe by how nice the people were compared to the other parts of Europe. Within 5 minutes of being on the train we had a student offer us to come stay with them but we had already lined up somewhere else so she showed us around Lubiana instead. We stayed with an Australian guy who has been living there for some years and a Slovenian girl. It was really cool as the Slovenian girl made us traditional Slovenian food which while not great was still good.
Then came Rijeka in Croatia. The girl we stayed with (Sabina) was really amazing and we became friends in a short amount of time. I like meeting people but it is getting increasingly hard to say goodbye to all these people that I meet while travelling, it is reassuring to know however that we can always meet again in the future.
I really like Croatian people, they were really welcoming and we had so many people just come up and start talking to us. Within an hour of arriving there we were extras in a music video clip for a Croatian band, stay posted for the Youtube link when it finishes being editted in a week or so.
There is more but that is the main stuff, after Rijeka came the painful train trip and yeah now im stranded. We planned on going to an island up north but the weather was cold and raining so we are in pursuit of the sun. Hoping everyone is safe and well I shall now sleep in a park for an hour or so until the next bus comes...
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