Šalka Vas

here's a guide on how not get from ljubljana to rijeka.

first, go to hitchwiki.org and read that it's far easier to go to zagreb first and then to the coastal towns from there. you'll also find a list of good hitchhiking spots. igonore all that.

then, when it's just 4 hours to sundown, take the bus to the outskirts of the capital (which isn't much bigger than chemnitz btw) and walk for an hour to some gas station. get picked up by a chain smoking elderly couple after ten minutes. drive for an hour, then asked to be dropped of at a gas station in the middle of nowhere because you saw pictures of a bear there on google maps.

third, inspect said bear (seemed to be in a trance or hibernation or something) and think of the things peta would do if they found out about this. stand in the rain trying to get a ride for two hours.

finally get picked up and driven to a the same small town that the elderly couple was going to just before sunset. eat dinner (toast and chocolate spread) at what looked like a homeless shelter and give up hope for the day. walk another half hour through the freezing night until you find a spot at a lake where you can set up camp. watch two movies because it's still just half past five, then have a chat with your parents.

if you haven't died of hypothermia yet, wake up at eight and realize that you picked a really decent spot last night. start packing up and be a approached by a slovenian man on a bicycle. ideally, this man should be the clingiest, most racist, antisemitic, unreflected individual you've ever layed your eyes upon. be given his email, because cell phones emit dangerous radiation.
finally lose him after an hour and try to find a semi doable hitchhiking spot.

next step, be picked up by a much nicer man, but be sure to go an hour northeast instead of southwest, where you planned to go. arrive at a border town and cross into croatia. try to get a lift for two hours, give up and then go back across the border to go catch a bus to the next city. almost get a pity lift from slovenian border control.

walk half an hour, arrive at the bus station (or at least the spot where there should be one) and wait until twenty minutes after alleged departure time. decide to just walk the way that the bus should've driven you and jump some barbed wire and cross the border for the third time, this time not so legally via a closed train bridge (this will save you two hours of walking time).

lastly, arrive at the train station and notice the overgrown tracks. be informed that an autobus now operates this line. watch another movie to pass the time and finally step foot into an empty bus that brings you to the next city. take the (only) train from there to zagreb, book a hostel, almost get caught without tickets in the tram and finally arrive in your room. where someone is puking out their soul. Czytaj więcej