Heading back out
Another trip to Europe!
17.06.2010 - 07.08.2010
Here I go. Back to Europe for the fifth time since March, 2005. Each time I've gone, I've gone for very different reasons. In 2005, I traveled to Europe in order to research the causes and effects of the wars that tore apart Yugoslavia. In 2006, I returned to Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia because I enjoyed being there so much. In 2007, my mom and I traveled to Spain and Portugal to celebrate her retirement and my graduation from college. In 2009, I heading out with Laura to visit the UK, Sweden and Estonia. After that, I traveled on down to Poland, Austria, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia and Switzerland because I figured I wouldn't have another chance to travel for some time to come.
I was on the verge of starting law school - with all the debt and intense work-load that involves. I wanted to see my friends in Europe before I became too weighed down by work and age to consider backpacking. However, something came up....
This time, I'm heading to Dubrovnik, Croatia in order to participate in some law-school courses! I'm totally stoked! I'm going to be in Dubrovnik from June 18 - July 17. Then I'm heading over to Serbia for a week to stay with my good friend Mateja and his family. After that, I'm going to Timisoara, Romania; Budapest, Hungary; Olomouc, Czech Republic; and Prague, Czech Republic, with a mixture of Mateja and my friend James. Heading home to Seattle on August 7.
The only thing worrying me at the moment is how I'm going to get from Croatia to Serbia. Getting through the Balkans is like running in Jello. It takes far too long to go what are really fairly short distances. Additionally, transport connections are much more sparse than they should be. Likely, I'm going to end up on a bus to Zagreb and then on to Belgrade for about 24 hours. Or via Montenegro for nearly that same period of time. Either way, it's far too long to spend traveling a distance of some 500km.
My entries will be intermittent. Note that I'm going to be in classes. I hope that I'll have cool stuff to report, though.
Posted by DavidJFabe 13.06.2010 21:36
