A visit, a diner and a road trip!....or how to smuggle a Croatian to Croatia!

To get someone to visit you in Kapfenberg is a lottery wining.....to get them to do that in november is ......well close to impossible.
So I was lucky enough to get a visit form an Australian/Californian girl who just happened to be passing trough this part of the world on her way from Washington DC to L.A.
So for me it was good bye midterm exams..........For her it was hello.........snow!?




This picture tells a story of how I
feed 8 students for 25€....
And it was juuumy!


Don't all of our faces say:
Ice skating is GREAT!!!!!?

And now a sad story...............
One fine morning, not so long a go, I have discovered that my long long lasting friend that followed me staunchly around the globe had..................disappeared!!!
Disappeared I say!!! Maybe he just found someone to travel further, or more often than he did with me, or! maybe he was taken from me by someone (may be someone from Albania)? who decided that his friend (Albanian friend) is not good enough for him so that unknown person (unknown to me....or to Austrian police) continued his travels with my Croatian friend.........my Croatian passport!!!!
If I could choose between the two possibilities above, I would choose the first one. I lost it, maybe nobody even found it, end of story! Hm, that story also excludes me being stopped on the border some time in the future because my passport was misused or worse.....
So to solve the problem I had to travel to Croatia to get a new passport (cheaper and quicker than trough useless Croatian Embassies), but to do so I had to travel over Italy and Slovenia, to get around Austrian Schengen border for which I actually need a passport. Now, you are not suppose to do that.... ...but it is.............. doable .........it is possible.........so I did :)
I sad to my self: "Well we might as well make a rode trip out of it!!!" and here it is, how it was..........


First stop was Rijeka, my first student city.
Arriving there I awoke my cusine Neda in the middle of night
(if you're gona do trafficking people you might
as well do it properly.....in the cover of the night)


Robert capturing the day light before his
upcoming LAN gaming event.


Shapes of food on the road


Arriving to Zagreb on the next day just before
the pre-election-day silence...................
signs and politc. adds were still very much alive!


Back home!!!


A trip to Pljuskara on a Sunday afternoon.


This is where I used to play as
a child while spending summers
at grandmas place.

I fulfilled my citizens duty voting for our Parliament, got my passport, had a great time on a gippsy concert so all there was to do is get back to our little Kapfenberg. Before that..............


.............we visited beautifully readopted
Trakošćan castle,


and fine surrounding lakes.