two blondes goes for coffee to Italy.

S. and Ieva @ Trieste suburbs

we have been talking about a common hitchhiking trip, i think since ever we got to know each other in Slovenia. sunday was the day, that S. and Ieva, went for hitchhiking trip together. After saturday discussions and finding out that Trieste is closer than Maribor, one, two three and girls are going for a coffee and picnic to Trieste. Sorry, the story took much longer than I was expecting, but well, the adventures were long enough. So enjoy.

sunday morning. 8.00, S. gives a desperate call to Ieva which goes something like this. Are we really going, its so cold and looks terrible outside, are we really going? Sure? Luckily Ieva have the right motivation.

8.30 and we almost meet up, takes couple of more minutes for blonde S. to find a faculty of Arts. 

9.00 girls are on the road. Preparing sign and ready to go. 

~9.10 two our age guys stops and offers us a lift for a half way...after some discussions we decide not to go with them, first of all because we don`t feel like joining them, secondly we could have the troubles in that place finding our way to Trieste. Sorry guys, another time. 

9.30 girls are still on the road, no cars stops, many passes, smiles waves, shows OK, smiles again...but nobody stops. 

9.40, girls makes a sign for a city thats in between...tries without sign. Even idea in mind appears if somebody stops and says they are going to Maribor, why not...we also are going to Maribor. 

~9.45 A car with two mans around 40 - 45, stops, they says they are going somewhere...as we understand almost to our destination. After some discussions and thinking, ok, why not, its better than nothing. 

~10.30 we reach some small village, they show us the very famous climbing cliff, turns around and says: Ok, girls we can drop you out in Trieste. We are amazed. After some like 10 more minutes we cross the border and are in Italy. Oh, forgot to take my passport with me, well, this time was no need of it luckily :) As they are not locals there and as we do not want to ask them too much of favor, plus we have no idea how big is Trieste, then we get dropped out in suburbs of Trieste. But just before dropping us out Benjamin (One of two guys) says: A you know what, we are going back around 16, if you want we could pick you up in Trieste. We are double amazed. Sure, we exchange phone numbers and leave to our city center of Trieste.

After they leave, we realize that city center is around 10km far, each of locals advice us to take a bus and to go to city center. As we have no tickets and no place to buy them, we decide to walk...its great outside, warm, cloudy, but no wind, great for a nice walk. And as we find out then city center is reachable if we just go straight all the time. So we walk...and we walk...still suburbs, still locals pointing that we should take the bus, but NO, we are not taking the bus. After an hour and half, of enjoying surroundings and almost sure that we are very near city center, we meet up with two girls, that makes it clear - the city center is FAR!!! Just take the BUS! 

As we are running out of time, all in all around 16 we are supposed to have a ride back...Ok, lets take the bus. In the bus its not possible to buy a ticket, neither somewhere around, its sunday, nothing works. As we find out in the bus, after an advice: Its ok, to go without ticket, nothing works today, so don`t worry. And here we go.

its around 12.30 and we finally reach city center. BEAUTIFUL it is. As we already had a long walk, we firstly go to seaside, to check the views and to have some picnic. great it is. After watching on diving duck and crazy dog, having some chat and rest, we have some walk, passing the huge Ferry full of old german pensioners cruising in Mediterranean, and finding one of rare places open. A real Italian coffee...almost, as none of us are found of it, we choose a Latte, but that turns out to be italian disaster, as usually nobody in south understands baltic Latte meaning. Anyhow, place is great, we sneak in some Serbian conversations, have some chat with bartender, testing his Spanish...turns out he speaks well, as he shares with us, that the first wife of him was from Cuba.

Its around 14.00. We are still amazed, and now sending a message to guys, just to make sure they are seriously going to pick us up. YES, is the answer. Arranged the details we still have time for a walk in a city. And there we go. Smaller streets, bigger streets, beautiful and amazing...pity that no shops are working, no chance even to buy no postcards. but well, reason to return.

its 15.30 and we are in the meeting point, waiting for our drive back home. as being blonde, then we do not properly remember neither the brand of car neither the color. 

~16.00 and luckily after some more specific details and sharing the address on where we are, we are found. Amazing, they made another detour, found us in city and now we are heading back to Ljubljana.

its. 17.00 we are Rožna Dolina.

What amazing trip and day it was. Hopefully will share the pictures later today, now time to go to sleep and be in office in around 6 hours :) Enjoy. S.

Everything in life is possible, just wish hard enough and be sure about it.