slovenia

in slovenia, they like to take random one-syllable english words and turn them in to city names. for instance, we are now staying in a town outside of bled. also outside of bled, there was a town called log.

anyways, if i am even somewhat of a reasonable person, i will not spend more than 5-7 minutes writing this entry. i am in a small town outside of a small town outside of the small slovenian city of bled. we are staying in a gigantic apartment for 13 euros a piece in a valley with some mountains and some lakes and one slovenian receptionist, who is very nice, and his very very nice dog.

it took us about twice as long to get here as it was supposed to, but the upshot is that i can now drive a manual transmission car with confidence.

here are the things i want to tell you about but don't have time because i need to eat, shower, and interact with slovenia at some point:

-floor crashing/apartment hopping with amy in prague (sort of miserable, sort of great)
-specifically, austin's apartment (and floor) and matthew's apartment (showerless)
-puke everywhere (the horrible hostel)
-tesco picnic
-getting lost in klagenfurt (the most beautiful, picturesque, weird little college town i have ever seen)
-the austrian countryside.

i should spend a minute on that anyway. the austrian countryside is easily the most beautiful countryside i've ever seen. the green of the grass is so green that it almost hurts your eyes. right where czech republic and austria meet, there are fields covered with yellow flowers that are so bright that my mind had previously been unable to conceive of such a color. the sky was blue with supermario little white fluffy clouds everywhere. basically. it was nice.

okay i have to go.