First day of summer

Today is day 113.

(sing along) I'm leaving...on a cargo train...dododeedodo...

Plans change. Though I am happy to have stayed a few extra days within the country. I wanted to visit a village but couldn't this time around. However, I should have ample opportunity in Russia when I finally get there. When will that be? I have no clue. It seems that I do more flying by the seat of my pants on this trip than anything else. Too bad I don't have frequent flyer kilometers for this! Then again, God knows where that would land me!

I've decided that Romania, a quick overview and as interesting as it may be for blog purposes, will have to be jettisoned as a course of action. I am going to leap frog the homeland of Vlad Tepes, yes, that irrestible rascal otherwise known as Dracula, and end up in either Budapest or Bratislava. Probably try for Bratislava to be honest. I had planned a flight through www.skyeurope.com but won't make it back in time to Split to catch the plane. Bummer, though when I was thinking about it, I knew it would be more expensive to catch that plane than go there by train (Bratislava, that is). At this rate, I probably won't make it in time to see all the sites in Vienna and Bratislava because I have a plane to catch to Amsterdam on the 28th and then head back July 5th to Croatia where I will probably remain for the rest of the summer.

Just finished checking the best damn railway website ever, www.bahn.de, yeah! it's a German site, but you can have your options in English and it's wonderfully helpful.

I'm leaving here, unless something better presents itself before then, at 17.10 or 5.10pm for those non-former-military types. Right now, I plan on getting into Bucharest (Bucuresti) around 6AM but having to wait around eleven unholy hours in that shithole of a train station. Maybe I can run off to check out some sites or sit down and right up what I haven't all month long...my journal entries. Nevertheless, the earliest I can catch the next train to Bratislava is around 5pm that evening. That puts me in Bratislava - hopefully the arrival is on-time, so I can catch my connection - at about 9AM on the 24th, a day later than I would arrive there by plane. That will be the next entry most likely and so you will hear from me then.