Ramblin´ Man.

First. Keys and White to perform the new Bond theme song? What the hell? I mean, Jack White will prolly make it a great piece of music, but performing it with Alicia Keys... No. Keys is annoying, I can´t stand her. They are such opposites. There are only two options. Either the duet will be the greatest thing ever or it will be horrible. I am very much afraid it might be the latter one. Got to wait till we can hear it, but... And I still think Cornell´s You Know My Name is the best Bond song ever. Which easily gets us to Mr. Chris Cornell and his upcoming third solo album. As everyone who knows how this blog got its´ name knows that I have been a huge Cornell fan. Now I´m not so sure. Working with Timbaland (who should stop making music, seriously, his works are terrible most of the time). Doesn´t sound good. Is Cornell getting desperate? His second solo didn´t sell that much and people still want to hear him sing Soundgarden hits. His second album had some good bits, but if the best really is the Billie Jean cover... Can´t judge anything before hearing, but I wouldn´t be too excited.

A small portion of football before a movie review. Arsenal has inked a deal with a 21-year-old Portuguese midfielder Amaury Bischoff. He used to play for Werder Bremen. Wenger is really sticking to his youth theme, all his purchases this summer have been relatively young. I don´t blame, it just makes the game more interesting. Arsenal is also playing Stuttgart tonight and what makes things interesting is that Jens Lehmann is now goalie for the German. Should be good, I´ll see if I can find a live stream of the game.

Why so serious? The Dark Knight was good. A lot of action. Loved Ledger´s Joker, really creates pressure to the next guy trying to play the role. Yes, I admit, I wanted to see the movie because of the Joker. Ledger really did a fantastic job. One of the funniest (yes) characters. Writers can have some glory, the script obviously has great dialogue, but the Joker´s lines win. Eckhart as Dent/Two-Face does impressive job too. Two-Face is one of my personal Batman favourites, don´t ask why. Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman is good, but Ledger´s Joker really beats them all. Bale is hell of a lot better Batman than some of the others, like Clooney... The plot isn´t that marvelous, but it has its´ moments. Some things aren´t explained well enough, like the thing with Jim Gordon or Ramirez. The fate of Lau is also not told, but it doesn´t spoil the movie. All in all, it´s really worth the money, but I´m not sure whether Ledger deserves the Oscar everyone is ready to hand him. He´s good, but is he really that good, I don´t know. Visually the movie is amazing. I loved the colours and some of the scenes were breathtakingly good-looking. The actors, all of them, did a good job and the hype around the movie hasn´t been in vain. Maybe it´s a bit too long and some of the plots could have been left out to make it even more coherent. If you like action, but don´t like movies made of comics and are hesitating if you should see the movie, I´ll say go for it. Deserves at least three stars out of five, I might give it four. Not a waste of money, unless you usually prefer romantic comedies. Then maybe.

We did also check out Anton Corjbin´s Retrospective. Really impressive photos. He is damn good. I have liked his works, but seeing more than matchbox sized pictures make me like them even more. He has his unique style and even those blurry pictures looked great. I would die to get his Joy Division and Jeff Buckley pictures on my wall. Shame I can never afford them. If you are somewhere near Helsinki, go check out his magnificent black and white photos until it´s too late. It´s up until the end of August, so you´d better hurry up.

I got to make a list of things to take with me tomorrow. Finally Emmi and I can share an uncensored version of our trip...

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Hours.

Didn´t I say that someone is gonna make a poster this month at Demi? Well, I was a bit wrong, but close enough. I can see things :D. Seriously, I just write because I have nothing better to do. I already did clean my wardrobe this morning and now there are hardly any clothes left. At least I have a reason to go do some shopping. And not watch any more friendly matches that end 2-10... Not that great a game.

A Breaking Dawn spoiler ahead, so if you want to wait a few more days, don´t read this. Meyer has told that there really will be a wedding, as a real happening, not a dream thing or anything. Jacob fans will be sad. But the party will be on at the beginning of the book so there will be a lot of other things happening. That is what I really hope, I don´t want it to be another The Host where nothing actually happens.

7 Reasons Why America Will Never Embrace Soccer.
Love the comments. People are so fighting about the "no individuals" part. There are individuals, but the team is way more important. But yes, Americans never get that sport. Like I´ll never get basketball or American football or baseball. Damn boring, those sports are. I also hate the word soccer.

Oh, I was watching sport news on Nelonen last night. And what were they talking about? The year of Spain in sport. Really. Euro, Nadal, Tour de France. Nadal´s English has improved, I could actually understand him. (He is so close to being the number 1 of ATP list. It´s like 300 anymore. Interesting times indeed.) The piece ended with people singing Eviva Espana. I was like, well, this is something I haven´t heard for a while. Didn´t really miss it since it was playing in my head for ages.

I did have a bizarre dream last night again, I just remember it featured some kind of castle and a church. Some deeper meaning, I have no clue... I should do something more useful than this... Maybe I´ll watch the first ever Batman since I´m gonna see The Dark Knight tomorrow. Lord of Dogtown is also on the waiting list. I have time.

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When It Started.

I´m off for four days and I miss every huge speculation... No, Fabregas isn´t going to Real Madrid eventhough pretty much every British newspaper has reported his transfer-as rumours at least. The Fab 4 himself has said he´s happy with Gunners and is going nowhere. Thank god for that. The "guess who´s going to be the Arsenal captain this season" -game is also rolling right now. Most say Gallas will keep his band, because if he is stripped off captaincy there is a chance he´ll leave the team. And no one wants that, it´s damn hard to get anyone to replace him. Nothing interesting till the season begins I guess. Few football mags I saw at the store today did make me gasp air. So good articles and that kind of stuff. A huge poster of a certain person was my favourite. No, I did not buy it. I just raided every single piece of newspaper that was published around midsummer from our summer cottage. Few pretty interesting findings, not that any of those beat the lovely Österreich... I am also a proud owner of the best t-shirt I´ve ever seen. Really dig it.

Mäntsälä is so lame. Really, if you want to learn a new language (brush up something you once learned and have now completely forgotten, like I have) you have to go to Järvenpää. How stupid, but apparently that is what has to be done.

Oh, weekend away from here. Well, the summer theatre was funny. Full Monty, featuring Risto Kaskilahti and Jussi Lampi among others. And one guy from Hunks. (Still a major turn off, don´t understand what women see in those guys.) The band was great, bassist read a science mag and one of the sax players was pretty good looking. Cottage... Well, I did swim. Though the water wasn´t that warm. And played a lot of badminton. My folks both got sunburn, I have apparently learned something. And my dad made a visit to a hospital on Saturday evening after cutting his fingertip with an axe. It didn´t look too bad, but it had to be stiched up and since our cottage is really in the middle of nowhere it took him quite a while to get to see a doctor. Rest was just being. Reading, doing nothing. The usual stuff. The boring stuff. I am going to stay home for the rest of the summer. Or at least around civilization. It´s funny how much one can miss newspapers. I did read headlines when we were in Mikkeli. Foreign tourists bring foreign mags to the stores with them, so I had a laugh when I saw Bunte. I assume it´s German, since it had Ballack on cover. Bridegroom Ballack, who we saw in Italy when watching TV and who looked really odd. It was like a "hey, I´ve seen that thing before" -moment. Really, nothing interesting. My life has been pretty boring lately. A movie review can be expected this week. And maybe something else if I´m up to it. We´ll see.

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Sweet Dreams.

Never say you don´t want to dream about something or someone, because then you certainly will. I did and now I have had two very disturbing dreams, two nights in a row. Can´t wait what I´ll dream this night. I know, now that I´ve strated this everyone wants to know what I have been subconsciously thinking. First was more odd than the second one, I can tell you that right now. I was standing in a kleinbus (you know that sweet VW car that they drive at Little Miss Sunshine). The vehicle was parked on the yard of my elementary school and I was watching (big surprise given the last few days) a football match. I am pretty sure it was Spain vs. Sweden, at least the players represented those countries. I remember that Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Sweden scored a goal behind Iker Casillas´ back and I was pissed. It must have been a draw, because it ended with penalty kicks. And Spain lost. I was horrified and I remeber that in the dream I walked to Casillas, hugged him and asked what is going on next. Well, the next thing was that I was trying to wake up Rafael Nadal, who was sleeping on the yard with a pile of books. He was supposed to play some really big and important final, but all he wanted to do was sleep. And the Spanish goalkeeper was standing next to me all the time. I know, this is bizarre at least, but I can´t choose my dreams. I can only hope that it was because of an article featuring both Nadal and Casillas that I read the day before. But what was Zlatan doing in my dream is a complete mystery to me. The second dream was much more sane and normal, it was just about watching a football match on TV. All I can remeber is that it was a Liverpool (yes, horrific) game and that Torres was celebrating a goal he´d scored. Thank god I will be kept away from my computer for the weekened, maybe these dreams end that way If not, at least I have something to write about and you, my dear readers, have something to laugh about.

Actually, I´ve had couple of encounters today that have made me smile. The first one was when I was at grandma´s and went to the library. I was sitting there, reading Episodi, when I heard two girls talking. About Twilight. About Edward and the forthcoming movie. I was like, oh please, not you too. The other was when we were almost back at home. There is this playground near our house and a boy came runnign from there. His shirt was awesome. Yellow and red and the word spelled across his chest. That´s right. It was Espana. (I can´t get the right kind of n there right now.) The world ain´t that big of a place after all.

No transfer news today, but I just read that Kolo Toure is down with malaria. Not nice at all, Arsenal´s defence might be facing problems if he isn´t fit soon. Like I could see any other games than those of Champions League, I´m still dedicated to this team. This isn´t fun at all, because the list of sick and injured is too long considering that the season starts in three weeks. No can do.

Tomorrow I´m off to meet some relatives (not too many I hope) and after that I´m heading towards a lake view at our summer cottage. I should be back on Monday. More babbling then. I should be informed though if someone finally gets around to buy Arshavin from Zenit. Like that´s going to happen... Anyway, everyone get their asses outside since the good weather was finally reached this corner of the world, enjoy the summer, have fun, just relax. It´s all over too soon anyway.See you next week. (In real life for a movie and for a travel report. )

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Jump They Say.

Emmi and I went to see Wanted today. I think it was funnier than it should have been. I know it´s because we just got home from Europe. Spoilers ahead, of course. The movie has no proper plot, or it does, but it won´t win an Oscars. It is a pure action movie and should be enjoyed as one. The scenes are well done and the dialogue is funny. And it´s not too long. Very realistic when showing all the blood and gory stuff, but not so much when showing the trainings or the healing bath (that I would love to have). McAvoy is great as Wesley though his accent is so odd. Freeman as Sloan is as good as Freeman always is. The end especially is great, never before have I laughed so much to an "Oh, shit." than now. Surely not the greatest movie made this year, but serves its´ purpose. Music made me smile, because I had to try really hard not to laugh when Every Day Is Excactly The Same strated playing. The song is too funny. I laughed too much too, for a movie that is not a comedy. The train and the place in Moravia and the truck with pictures of kittens and puppies that Cross drives in the beginning. Oh, the cars were lovely too. Loved the Mustang Wesley/McAvoy was driving. (Very off-topic, but why the hell does McAvoy´s favourite pub in London locate in Highbury? You know what else is there...) All in all, I liked the movie and if any of you reading this are into that kind of action stuff you should see it. Can´t wait to see The Dark Knight next week. And I have to check out the Narnia movie eventhough I haven´t seen the first one. But I was told it´s not very good. Maybe this one is an my money won´t be completely wasted.

And other news. In Italy we were wondering what Tom Cruise has been doing lately, movie-wise. Well, after Mission Impossible III he made Lions For Lambs in 2007. Not much. And all this because we happened to watch The Last Samurai on Rai Uno.

Football. The Blues have more re-inked deals. Essien has just signed a deal for five years with Chelsea. Former Blues midfielder Makelele is now officially a part of the Paris St. Germain team. Chelsea should be having a pretty strong midfield this season, but we´ll see. For us Gooners I am sad to tell that Eduardo has taken a step back with his recovery and is likely to miss the first two months of the season. And it still isn´t clear what the status of Gallas and Adebayor is. Only three weeks left till the season begins. Which reminds me that I really have to ask dad if I could loan his credit card once again. There are other interesting matches that the one we have in mind, but the one against Portsmouth is pretty much out of the question, since it´s on December 28, only two days after the boxing day match and around Christmas-New year time. Like the one isn´t, but it´s a different thing. I am willing to spend all the money I have left on two things,on a match and on a long trip to south. That will be expensive. Nothing interesting on the transfer front today.

Tomorrow I am going to see grandma, so she can see that I´m alive. And then all the relatives at Heinola. I´m already terrified. All the questions I´m about to face... Someone might have to listen me complain about that. The weekend should be one at our summer cottage but I´m getting out of there as soon as it´s possible. I´m dying of boredom here, so imagine a place in the middle of nowhere and more nothing to do. That´s right.

//Short update. Fuck Brits. Unless I move to the UK and open a bank account there, there is no fucking way to get to a match. The only way to buy a membership is via direct debit that, of course, isn´t used in Finland. So much for that dream then.

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An End Has A Start.

More football stuff, just to warn those who aren´t interested. I´ve been surfing all day, googling pictures and stuff. I can tell you that there are some people that take amazing photos (Casillas for example, but I think it´s his facial bone structure that I find so beautiful) and then there are some who turn out awful. Even if they look good on video. But yes, I actually might have some news. This has apparently turned to some football blog, but that does not bother me, if it did I wouldn´t be writing this, would I? First, Cech has signed a new contract with Chelsea that will keep him as the Blues goalie until 2013. I am kind of interested how they are doing this season since Scolari is managering them. I won´t mind if they finish third this season, though I still don´t like them. Ferguson is saying that Christiano Ronaldo will stay put in Manchester. Maybe so, but he is also missing the season kick-off because of his ankle surgery. Andrei Arshavin, the Russian wonderman, has said himself that Zenit has overpriced him. He has also implied that he´d like to join the Gooner family, which would make me and a few thousand other fans more than happy. It is still uncertain if Gallas continues as the Arsenal captain, but I´ve read suggestions that the band should be given to Fabregas. (Actually, one piece said that the whole team should be built around him. I know he´s young, but damn, he is also very good.) This is very interesting time, since the transfer roulette is still spinning. And I´m a bit disappointed that I still haven´t found what I´m looking for, the new captain of Bayern München. Well, guess I just have to wait till Bundesliga starts.

Yes, I really am this bored. I got so used to moving around and changing places every four days or so. I have even read people´s opinions about a certain city. Most say the museums are nice along with the parks (which really suits me), but that otherwise it´s a bit dull place. Night life is good though and that´s the point, right ;D? And people are awesome. I was laughing my head off while watching 6teen this morning. The one girl decided to learn Spanish and the other said something like "you are learning a new language just to be able to date?". Yes. Very apt, I might say. Feel free to comment or do whatever you want. I´m off reading Pink is the new blog, I´m betting Trent is writing something about The Dark Knight.

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Shadowplay.

I´ve been bored. I have seen way too many Youtube videos and read way too many articles. It is fun to laugh at all the football mags that had no faith in Spain. "Good in paper, bad in game" and "Same as always, nothing special". How wrong they were. Maybe next time they´ll actually think that Spain is good. My phone also made me laugh. It was bought in May and I randomly chose between two colours. Well, as some might know, the phone is red and gold. And what country carried those colours...? Exactly. Maybe I should name it too, like I have done with my other electronic stuff. Any suggestions? Nah... I did really find the left-handed footballer. By accident after watching tens of videos. It´s funny actually. The Catalan Fabregas (leftie, but right-footed) has always been one of my personal favourites, I think he is one of world´s best midfielders and in the future prolly one of the most respected players. Still I have never bothered to find out if he is a leftie, which is something I do with so many other people. But now I know and we can quit the search. Like it was finally found out yesterday that German Joachim Löw is not a leftie even though he wears his watch on his right hand. Like I said, bored. Oh, Premier League´s website told me that Rosicky is going to miss the season kick-off. He is hoping to be fit to play in September. Fingers crossed.
Fuck. Not even Thomas Cook can get us to the Emirates Stadium as their packages are for residents of UK and Ireland only. Fuck. Now I really want the Red membership. It would be like the greatest birthday/Christmas/whatever gift ever. If I hint about it tomorrow. Or then I just could ask if I could use dad´s credit card and pay him back. Not like I have loads of money, but I want to get to a match. I am even ready to go and see some other game than that against Liverpool. Just any game, but I want to. Now I´m starting to think I´m desperate. Too much football lately, way too much. I even did the list of players I´d like to see play "live". I know it will become even longer when I really get into thinking about it. I will tell it someday (tomorrow wouldn´t be a bad guess), just wait. I did have something else to write about than the King of Sports...

I noticed I´m already yerning for a new trip and I haven´t been home for more than three days. There is nothing here. Nothing. Quiet and same old things. I want something new. I want to get to London. And I wish it was next spring already. I am so going to be south then. Even if there is no job and I´d have live in a hostel. But I want to get there too. I got to find the books that I can start prepping my language skills. Mom said there is nothing bad at having a year off from school and studies but then again she has no idea of the plans that were made at one night. It will be a long holiday if nothing else works, but I could bet a hundred that I´m not here in, let´s say, April-May 2009. And I hope I´m not away alone ;).

Travel photos are on Flickr. There is only a fraction of the photos and they only show our trip till Zagreb since I went over the limit. The rest will appear at the beginnig of August or as soon as it´s possible. None of the pictures have been moderated or Photoshopped, they are just like they appear on my camera. The sky really was that blue. I can´t wait to get the Monaco pics uploaded, they turned out so beautiful.

A reading tip while waiting for the last Twilight book. Try The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. It´s marvellous. The way he writes is lovely. I just started reading it but it has already charmed me totally.

More later, I have to catch up with ETS now.

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Home.

We got back home safe and sound though the flight was delayed and it took ages to get our stuff in Helsinki. But more about that soon, because it´s time for some football updates. Skip the next pretty long chapter if you´re not interested.

Arsenal doesn´t have Arshavin, but they have something almost as good, Samir Nasri. I at least am really, really excited about him. He got to play too little at Euro, but now... He is one of the next big things and I am sure he won´t be a disappointement. Gunners also have Carlos Vela back from loan and the talented Welsh Aaron Ramsey (born 1990 by the way) joined the Gooner family too. No info on Alonso coming, but if it was called official on the Italian TV show we just have to wait what happens. Gilberto leaving is a bit sad, but I´m not going to miss him that much since the new guys are so exciting. Can´t wait for the season kick-off. Which reminds me of December. It got tricky. Unless I get someone to buy me a Red membership (which I would be more than delightful to have) the is practically no way to get to the match. Last season not a single ticket went on general sale and I´m betting the same will continue. Thomas Cook still offers tickets and accommondation for the weekend and I think that is what we should really seriously consider. The best seats for the match are sold out which is no wonder, but there are still others left. If it is going to be the place up high where it is hard to see then so be it, but I really want to get there and see Gunners (and one certain number 9) play. We discuss about this, I´m sure. Mom kind of already gave an ok when I hinted about this.
I was also bored last night and tried finding out the vice-captains but to no avail. So I don´t have the faintest clue about them right now but I´ll keep searching. I ended up reading the UEFA profiles once again. It was predicted that when Casillas no longer is a captain then Fabregas will be his successor. Interesting. Haven´t done the Youtube checking yet, but I have time. Maybe this is enough from football and I can start telling about the rest of hour trip.

Italy. Well... Ciao bella was heard very often which really started to piss off. Yeah, I´m blond, I know but I still don´t want to hear that from 45-year-old men. The hostel in Florence was fine, though the check-in was not. The time changed too often and as we were tired it didn´t please us at all. We sat at a nearby park for hours watching people and their dogs. And when we didn´t get our room we hit the city and saw those "little" attractions. And sat at the stairs of the Duomo way too long watching the DIY-man. He was cute and the t-shirt. No, I did not take a picture of him. As if... Last ads of the cafe. We did nothing special there, watched TV and listened to really good conversations. People who don´t remember when they are checking out. On Sunday there was a horrible rain so we didn´t get up until very late. In Milan we slept in a hotel. That we found just cause we were lucky. We just sat and ate... On Tuesday we went to Monaco. Yes. The trip took ages but the views were good. The sea and nice sunshine. It was a really nice place. The wind was lovely. The buildings were awesome, everything was just as gorgeous as it always seems on TV. Milan. Well, we saw pretty much everything one should see, even the Last Supper. This is really bad, because I don´t remember everything we did and now it seems like we did nothing and that is not the case... But I can give info on Italy´s most popular artist. Actually, I might do a link list. Here we go.

Lost - Stand By
Sonohra - Love Show
Marracash - Badabum cha cha
Gabriella Cilmi - Sweet About Me
Jovanotti - Tanto
Caparezza - Vieni A Ballare In Puglia (This video has more tambourines that is lawful)
And my personal favourite so far: MGMT - Electric Feel

Coming home was odd. Everyone speaks Finnish and somehow things are so simple. I don´t know. I did have fun reading NYT. Helsinki´s Torremolinos. I almost choked. And Ben Barnes is everywhere. I have to see Prince Caspian. And Dark Knight. And Wanted. Oh, and my mom has done something that really surprised me. FST had showed NIN´s Beside You In Time and she had recorded that for me. I am overly excited cause my DVD is broken. Now I can see the best parts. And she did that even without asking me. What a mom. I might have something else too, but this post is already so long. Pictures will be on Flickr when I have time to sort out the best. Commenting is fine, the one Riikka left really made me smile when I read it last night, so thank you. I´ll be around.

Beautiful Day.

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Leaving Zagreb was interesting. The reception was not open when we woke up and it was not open when we were ready to leave the place. We had already given our keys to a nice Japanese girl who would have returned them for us when the receptionist finally showed up, like two hours late... We did get out but we were pretty annoyed because of the guy. He had already pissed us off the day before so when he had not showed up... Well, use your imagination. Going to Ljubljana was wonderful. Nice train ride following the river, very good views. Finding hostel was easy which was really nice. And the beds are somewhat interesting, a huge kind of block in the middle of the room. But spacious and otherwise fine, though the pillow is horrible. On Sunday, we once again sat on a bench, this time eating ice cream. And some guys came asking if we knew if there is a park somewhere. Yes, I am really Slovenian after spending seven hours in this city... Guess we looked so locals. At least the weather was beautiful, unlike it has been lately. Yesterday we checked all the tourist attractions, the castle including. We took a funicular ride to the hill, walking to the Citadell in Budapest was enough. And we tried reading a newspaper in Slovenian because we were desperate to find out the Wimbledon winner. We guessed it right because the pictures gave a pretty good hint, but we had to check. And then we had a I would like to jump and scream because Nadal won but I will not do it while standing in the middle of the street -moment. It is such a shame we missed the final because it would have been so great. Maybe in another life... And then we fixed our travel plans in Italy. Decided not to stay in Venice because it is impossible to get a sleeping place but instead we are going to Florence tomorrow. Or, actually we are going to Villach tomorrow and then to Florence, but who cares... And we have the most expensive sleeping place of the entire trip in Milan. It costs us a small fortune, but then again, we never had a proper budget after all. And we have some ideas of places we want to visit. They are not all the most common places for people on Interrail, but our trip has been so odd. And we had nice time eating out last night - not. The pasta was okay when we finally got it after waiting. Then it started raining. And it was a huge thunder storm. Lightnings and way too much water. We were eating inside the restaurant, but it still had like 5 cms of water on the floor. And running back to the hostel and being soaking wet after that... Shower did good. Something to tell the grandchildren... Today it has been raining, we did get wet again when we went to buy some breakfast. And we did shop. Something else than postcards. Shirts and flip-flops. So much for the budget. And books. We ended up in a huge bookstore with a decent selection of English books and spend an hour in there. But we did not find a textile marker we were looking for. Instead we found albums of Finnish bands in a department store. It was like, oh a yellow Magic Recoveries, check there is a Sonata Arctica album. And some Mando Diao. Way too much fun. Tomorrow we will be in Villach and then it is time for the adventure in Italy. Do not look too eager for more posts until I get home, because finding a computer that actually co-operates might be a bit difficult. We can just hope for the best. And hope that we get home when we are supposed to, because there might be a strike in Italy at that time. Things are getting interesting...

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City And The Streets

Zagreb, Croatia

We have seen the Hungarian Parliament from every possible angle. And we walked to the top of Citadell, the highest point of Budapest. It was a bit warm... And we could not use any easier route. It was ok, when we finally got to the top, the view was pretty. Finding a way to the Buda castle was not that easy. We ran into a couple of Canadian boys -four times- while trying to find the castle. And when we did get there we sat in front of a... Well, I do not know what he building was. But it was nice, just sitting there, talking about really important stuff. We have the rest of our lives planned already... Seriously, we managed to see over 75 percent of the sights of Budapest which is a lot. The train trip to Zagreb was the most boring ever. It took six hours. Sleeping would have been nice but the seats were no good for that. The best part must have been when the customs officer or whatever started asking how long are we staying in Croatia and what are we going to do. Like I had the answers ready at that hour of the day. Finding our hostel could have been easier if the directions had been a little better. But we managed to get here. Nothing wrong with this place, people on the dorm could be nicer, more talkative, others than the one Aussie. He is fine, just having difficulties understanding him... Zagreb is not too big, we have again sat in a park and seen prolly all the sights. If you like shoe shops, then this is your city. We are heading towards Ljubljana tomorrow. Maybe it has a bit more eye-candy than this city, because all the guys we have seen have just been nice looking or fine, not drop dead gorgeous. Or maybe we just have too high standards... Judging by our conversations, we do have. Oh, all the conversations... I had the first rational thought today. The first in like a week. Nobody wants to know what we have talked about, it is too shameless. More from Ljubljana, if I feel like writing. If I have anything to write about. Maybe someone asks us out for the third time and we finally say yes... Or then not.

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