The start

utorak, 28.09.2010.

28.09.2010.
The Trip

The first and second day. Hm ... What to say? Apart from that Austria is beautiful, and for Slovenia I can not claim the same as I passed it in half an hour.. I'm just kidding; Slovenia is really a beautiful country, I had chance to visit it many times, but the most beautiful I've experienced it when I passed it with my motorbike, because then I went to the nicest places, and in addition the motorbike is a means of transport with which, whenever it is possible, I avoid highways, and almost always I led astray, and examine the region, meanderings, rivers, lakes, caves, which are almost always closed, as there were yesterday some I wanted to check-out, in Styria next to the city Weiz. To reach them, I was driving uphill on excellent asphalt and a myriad of potential camping or lunch-cooking-places :) However, back to... Slovenia - by that beauty (the hills and the Alps, and good roads) it reminds me of Austria, especially this part through which I drove today: crystal-clear rivers and creeks, old school sawmills, wonderful old-fashioned towns, each cut into a ravine , and a looot of farms with eaven more animals, all kinds - mostly cows and sheeps, and horses - these categories are visible from the roads;)
All this is quite high. Apparatus say that I was very high today, up to some 1300m, I crossed over a lot mountain passes today, so it was a lot of lowering and climbing. I slept by Birkfeld town, but out of the way, in the hills, where there are just a few farms (they even have common mailboxes on some intersections for a couple of farms, and signs with familiy last names, overall very nice). I found a secluded spot in a grove, but near the road (macadam road, with very low traffic - car count was some max 10 passes through my 14-15 hours spent there. Everything was some 900 m above sea level, next to a wooden abandoned house - quite spooky at night, especially under the moonlight as it was this night .. I woke up at 03:17 and I thought it was dawn, I could see absolutely everything thanks to moonlight - I saw even my shadow, and then of course the haunted cottage :D The motorbike is there and the alarm says "it's cool" with one red blinking. Ok, it's cold- I get into my winter sleeping bag (thanks dad) ... It is still warm :) quick look at the phone. A friend (Jela) sent a message how it feels to be on the road – told her it's great...
The first night ended just fine (cooked before bedtime tea and ate a small Milka - thanks sis), breakfast (cooked nescaffe - thanks mom – really family 1A – the best), I packed my stuff and came through all those beautiful places and the mountains to lowland region... Here I sit in the bar on the banks of the Danube (Ybbs an der Donau)... I love rivers, especially large ones, because of that I was fascinated by the Sava river only 10 days ago... that's a river. (there were floods). And the people ... I don't know, funny ... And they talk strange, I watched this morning two old men while discussing pancakes, and how children love them... It's just, they talk funny and german isn't my stronger side.. Just what is fundamental to manage, that means to eat, even that - learned in the first four grades of primary school and from Cobra 11. :D Haven't seen too pretty Austrian girls, but there is time...
For now this much - I'm checking out.

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Dan prvi i dan drugi. Hm... Sta rec? Osim da je Austrija prekrasna, a za Sloveniju ne mogu tvrditi isto obzirom da sam ju prosao u pola sata... Zafrkavam se; Slovenija je fakat predivna zemlja; imao sam ju prilike puno puta posjecivati; a najljepsom sam ju dozivio kad sam ju prolazio motorom, jer tada sam isao u najljepse krajeve; a osim toga i motor je sredstvo transporta s kojim uvijek kad je moguce izbjegavam autoputeve, a gotovo uvijek skrenem s puta i istrazujem kraj, stranputice, rijeke, jezera, jame; koje gotovo uvijek budu zatvorene; kao sto su i jucer bile dvije nekakve jame koje sam htio check-outati u Štajerskoj krej grada Weiza. Da bi stigao do njih vozio sam se uzbrdo po odlicnom asfaltu i uz bezbroj potencijalnih kamping ili rucak-cooking place-eva :) However, vratimo se na... Sloveniju - po toj me ljepoti (dakle brda i alpe i dobre ceste) podsjeca na Austriju, i to bas ovaj dio kroz koji sam se danas vozio: kristalno ciste rijeke i rjecice, old school pilane, predivni starinski gradici, svaki usjecen u neku kotlinu, i gro farmi s toliko na kvadrat zivotinja, svakakvih - najvise krava, pa ovaca, pa konja - te su kategorije vidljive s cesata ;)
Sve je to dosta visoko. Aparatura kaze da sam bio mnogo visoko danas; do nekih 1300m, preko dosta prijevoja sam prosao, dakle bilo je puno spustanja ali i penjanja. Spavao sam kod gradica Birkfelda, ali van puta u brdima gdje na svakih toliko ima poneka farma (imaju i zbirne postanske sanducice na nekim krizanjima za par posjeda, tj. familija i putokaze sa prezimenima; sveukupno vrlo simpaticno. Pronasao sam izolirano mjesto u sumarku, ali blizu puta (makadamskog kojim se auto prokotura ekstremno rijetko - car count je bio nekih max 10 prolaza kroz mojih 14-15 sati provedenih tamo. Sve je bilo na nekih 900 mnv i kraj neke drvene napustene kucice - nocu dosta sablasno, pogotovo pod mjesecinom kakva je bila ovu noc.. Probudio sam se u 03:17 i mislio sam da je zora; pisam a ono vani se ama bas sve vidi - vidim cak i svoju sjenu, a onda naravno i sablasnu hizicu :D motor je tu i alarm me pozdravlja jednim crvenim zmirkom. Ok, zima je - ulet u zimsku vrecu (fala tata)... Jos je topla :) brz pogled na mob. Frendica poslala poruku, da kak je - reko super... Noc prva zavrsila fino (kuhao prije spavanja caj i jeo malu Milku - fala seka), dorucak (kuhao nescaffe - fala mama - stvarno obitelj 1A - najbolja) spremanje i dosao danas kroz te predivne krajeve i planine do nizinskog kraja... Evo sjedim u birtiji na obali Dunava (Ybbs an der Donau)... Obozavam rijeke, pogotovo velike; zato sam i bio ocaran Savom pred 10ak dana... E to je Rijeka.
A ljudi... Kaj ja znam, smijesni... I cudno govore; skonto am ujutro dvojicu deda dok su raspravljali o palacinkama, i kak ih deca vole... A ovo drugo... Ma kazem, glupavo pricaju, a meni švapski i nije jaca strana... Samo ono osnovno za snaci se, dakle jesti, i to - nauceno u prva cetiri osnovne i iz Cobre 11 :D
Ne vidjeh bas prezgodnih Austrijanki, ali ima vremena...
Za sad toliko-odjavljujem se.