After my confusion with dates that made
our trip in Maribor be
shorter, we still needed to find out how we could reach the train station to
move to Ljubljana.
We basically asked
around how to reach the train station, not having a hard time with language
skills. The impression that I had was that in Slovenia a lot of people have
fair English skills that made the communication be possible.
The way to the
train station was fine. We need to walk around 30min from the point that we
were to there. There was a sport car's fair in a public area in the way that we
stopped for few minutes to check it out. In the beginning I wasn't really
interested to stop there, but Cris was really excited in checking the fair, but
afterwards I really liked it. I had some memories from my childhood that I was
really fascinated in sport cars, watching auto racing, having toys and checking
some magazines as well.
It was a kind of
nostalgic moment that I didn't even plan to experience it. Thanks for my
Cousin's friend for making it happens.
Afterwards we just
arrived in the train station and there was just a last train leaving in one
hour. We couldn't find any information about the schedule before, once we
didn't have Internet but luckily we still had this last option. The only
problem was that this train after traveling almost 3 hours for just 120km it
would arrive after midnight in Ljubljana and we would have a hard time to
arrive in our Airbnb place once the public transport wouldn't be available
anymore.
We texted to our
Airbnb guy explaining the situation and friendly he offered to pick us up in
the train station in Ljubljana, saving our life. He didn't need to do it; his
responsibility was giving us just a place to stay. There are so many great
people in the world that still help each other without expecting anything back
and it was just a small example. I don't have to mention all the experiences
that I had doing Hitchhiking and Couchsurfing. Hitchhiking riders normally are
not expecting anything back from the Hitchhikers, they just want to help. Who
uses Couchsurfing, in a proper way, isn't expecting anything back either.
That's how we become more humans.
We were safe this
night and we just needed to caught the last train of the night that had few
changes that made our 120km has the duration of almost 3 hours. I met two shy
and cool guys that were on the train. They were coming back from a soccer game
between Maribor and Ljubljana that their soccer team, Maribor, just lost it. It
was a nice time that they shared their beers with us and taught us some
Slovenian words that it was my first contact with Balkans languages. In this
trip I learned a lot of Balkan words, mixed between Slovenian, Croatian and
Bosnian that made me be able to say few samples sentences and words after this
trip. I would say now that after Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, German
and Italian, the Croatian language is the one that I know more words. Thanks
for my Balkan trip!
After saying
goodbye to our new friends we just met our Airbnb guy that saved our life
explaining us few things about Ljubljana. That It was the greenest city in
Europe and everything about the quality of life that people use to have there.
Being our tourist guide, he was also picking up a couple that was going to stay
in their place as well. Exchanging experiences, this great guy just dropped us
in his place and brought the keys wishing a good night.
This day that the
plan just changed, it allowed us to have great experiences, from the Sport
car's fair to the Slovenian guys that we met in the train. Everything works for
a reason.
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