Hotel Waldinger Osijek
Zupanijska 8 Osijek, 31000, Croatia
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... people from the hostel headed out to do things that involved admission fees, so I walked around the square for a while and then headed back to the hostel to cool down, hydrate up, and make sure I was ready for my train. My train was scheduled to leave at 1pm, so I left the hostel at noon so I would have plenty of time to make the 1km walk to the train station. I say walk, but with a heavy bag, and the heat of mid day it feels more like a trek. But I'm just whining.
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Snow barrier
... wymiany zawsze podwozi kazdego autostopowicza jakiego zauwazy na swojej drodze. Dodatkowo, jako, ze potrafil calkiem dobrze mowic po angielsku sporo sobie pogadalismy - o podrozach, o couchsurfingu, o Bosni i Hercegowinie i powojennych stosunkach miedzyludzkich tu panujacych.
Razem tez przejechalismy przez magiczny tunel oddzielajacy Hercegowine i Bosnie. Dlaczego magiczny? Bo jak inaczej nazwac przejscie nie majace wiecej jak 100m przed ktorym jest slonce, trawa, ...
"Lock the doors, leave the world outside"
... and now that I'm awake again, the other two hostel guests are asleep and I can't figure out how to unlock the friggin door of the common room to get downstairs.
Compounding matters, the bathrooms are also outside this door.
You'd think it should be easy to figure out. You'd think their would be a key to unlock the door. You'd think there'd ...
Dani the champion of the world
... so when I was offered to play Uno with Agnes and her brother Dani I lept for joy, well metaphorically. That was followed by a midnight feast which only I seemed to partake in and I was amazed at the gadget they had which could slice anything from cucumber to salami in a matter of seconds. Maybe I have been living in the dark ages, but I was enthralled.
I woke this morning at 10.30, it was so nice to have a lie in and ...
Well Off the Beaten Path
... bear with me. For decades Josep Tito held communist Yugoslavia together and it was a federation of competing ethnic groups, religions, nations, and languages. When he died in May 1980 the country started to splinter slowly as different groups tried to gain supremacy. Big bad Serbia became the dominant force.
So sometime in the early 1990s Croatia said enough is enough with this Communism that isn't working and ...


