Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Slovenia Trip -- Most awaiting trip ended with unfogatable experience

After long research and advices I decided to travel Slovenia by flight. Based on the timings and price i decided to go to Slovenia via Vienna (Austria). Maribor is the second largest city in the Slovenia which is 250KM from Vienna. I decided to take train this part of journey.

My Journey started from my office on 10th Nov 2010 evening 3 o'clock. It was raining and cold got a bus to Grenoble (from Crolls) after waiting for 15min. Reached Grenoble Victor Hugo and ran to Apartment with little shopping in between. Changed dress and took the luggage started to Grenoble Bus Station. It was raining ... Thought of taking taxi but did not find anything till i reached Bus Station. Luckyly I saw 4pm bus to lyon airport is on platform. I took the back and forth ticket and saw bus just left the Stand. It was not a miss i planed to take 4:30 bus. Point need to be noted here is "When you see bus on stand take ticket on bus dont stand on Q " .

The rain still picking up like my excitement... I took the bus and the journey to lyon is with full rain and thunders. Its storm ...

Reached Lyon Airport , check in with Automatic Check in machine and entered in to Security check. Oh Its second time for me ... I fogot to keep all the liquids outside bag so i rounded twice in the security check. I did not want to check in my pull man for this flight. I ate ice cold chicken sandwich ..closing my eyes. The airfrance flight at 7:39 pm touchdown the ground at vienna on tick 9:35.

Here I need to catch train to Vienna City Center. This is called CAT (City Airport Train) . The train starts from airport train terminal at 10:05 .... I just ran all the 30 min in Vienna Airport to catch the train. The train takes 16 minuits to reach city center....and its 9 euro . I bought the ticket online before starting.

I need to catch train REX1975 which is 28 min after reaching CAT station. I asked some people for this train station. First entered in metro station then came out and entered in right station. I did not took ticket for this train . I did not find ticket counter there are some wending machines for tickets. Hai i am in Austria its German here I started finding someone to help luckyly a girl taking tickets at one machine. I asked her help . Thank god she is speaking english. After I told everything to her we noticed all the systems are outof service. We rome around station and back to same point now its working. My train will come on platfrom no 3. She is Bosnian girl studing archeacture . we had discussion about archeacture in the world for 2 min then she got her train.

I saw my train name is mentioned on platfrom number 2 but on screen it is mentioned as 3 ... there is some train on platfrom 2. I asked ticket collector will it go to Mürzzuschlag.... He said YES.... I jumped in and train started....If i miss this train i dont have train till next day morning.
Its approximately 4 hour journey ..reached Mürzzuschlag at 00:40

One girl with the got down in the same station with the lagest bag in the world. From Mürzzuschlag i have to go to Graz. The next train is at 4:13 . She is french girl studing Germen economy in Austria ...was searching next train Graz.. I given her train details and I bought tickets for next two trains.

The four hours I spent in railway station where longest ever . It was cold .. In warm room i could not able to sleep ... Finally we took train to Graz at 4:13. This train reached Graz at 5:44. Two things surprised me here ... for using Toilet it costs 50 cents... A women working at McDonalds went to another store for breakfast.

I got into the Maribor (slovenia) train and sat in a place where a aged women is there.. She is math professor in Boston US. She told about Austria and formation of Slovenia the journey was so fast and reached Maribor at 7:39.

I need to catch train in 10 min to place called Poljcane. Bought tickets and took the train . This was the last train to reach my destination . I aksed my friend Nada to come to this station at 8:25. I did not contacted her any time during journey . My phone is not working. It was great excitement i am seeing her first time I really dont know if she gona come or not.

Finally train reached Polcjana . I got down on the platfrom . I waited till the train leave station . Actual station is other side of the train . I scanned the platform I did not find her... There is sun opposite to me where station is there... There are lot of people .. I am walking towards crossing between two platforms. I noticed a women in pink jacket with glasses. I thought she is nada waved my hand ...She did same ... I just went to her ...It was really nice experiecne seeing someone known first time.




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