Sunday, October 25, 2009

Slovenia: pre-trip

About two weeks ago, I was looking at my schedule for the next half of the semester, and mostly looking if I would be able to go on the Kiruna trip once they finally announced the days of the trip. NOPE. Exam schedules are again making that not possible...
So my thinking was it would be cool to see Dream Theater again while they're still playing in Europe. I thought it would be cool to meet up with Jordan again too.
Looking at their schedule, they play their last show in the European leg in Ljubljana Slovenia on Saturday the 31st. It works out pretty well because my last class for the week is on Wednesday, so I can take the time to travel there. I told Jordan my idea and he thought it would be cool if I could make it!
After a couple days of looking at the different possibilities of traveling there, I was able to make out this schedule:

Thursday the 29th --Leave Jönköping at 1:45 A.M. to Stockholm Arlanda (the airport) by bus. Get there at 8:50.
Stockholm to Milan: 2:40-5:30 via easyJet (cheap airline. but doesn't go directly from Stockholm to Ljubljana...the other option was Copenhagen-London, London-Ljubljana, but it was a bit more expensive)
from the Milan airport to the central station, I'll have to take some shuttle that leaves every 30 minutes or so, takes an hour.
Then it looks like I'm taking the train from Milan to Ljubljana at 9:05 P.M. and getting there at 8:10 A.M. on the 30th.

I'm staying at a hostel pretty much downtown, and actually about two blocks from the hotel that Jordan is staying at (at least that's what Google Maps tells me).

Getting back will be just as long. Leaving Ljubljana at 8:48PM on the 1st, and eventually getting back to Jönköping at 3:30 in the morning on the 3rd....seems like a lot of traveling, but the fact that I'm going to see Dream Theater playing in freakin' Slovenia, hanging out with Jordan again, and just the fact that I'm in Slovenia itself is pretty cool. I've heard good things about the country, so I'm pretty excited to see what it will be like!!

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