Train ride from the past

The train going from Ploce to Sarajevo was actually a train from the 1950's donated to Bosnia-Herzegovina from Sweden. It must have been a real luxury to travel with that train in the 1950s but now, not so much. The seats were huge and soft, but the fabric was so worn of that with (off course) no air condition and an immense heat, you literarily got stuck to the seats and left half of your skin back when getting up (which you had to do a lot of times to escape the HUGE bugs that got in through the one window that was able to be opened). Luckily we had some brave bosnian men that was not as afraid as us for the monster bugs (even though they had some troubles as well trying to get them out).

Interrail 2011

Yeah! It's finally here, my interrail ticket which I've been dreaming about for years, and even more since my darling Maria the best gave me my Lonely Planet: "Europe on a shoestring" for christmas/birthday last year! (Thank you darling) Our planning has come far, and the kick-off for "Interrail 2011" is closing up!

We have planned a route up front,  but it's not by any means fixed, and we're open for a lot of deviations if anything better comes up, or if something doesn't go as planned. Although some of the cities has been a dream of mine for a long time now; like Rome, Istanbul, Budapest and Prague. And when browsing the internet for the last few months, Lake Bled and Cinque Terres has come up as "must sees". Our preliminary route through Europe goes like this;

• Barcelona, Spain (Natural starting point for me, since thats where I've been living the last 6 months)
• Montpellier, France (et lite stopp i noen timer ettersom hostell var umulig å oppdrive på kort varsel)
• Marseille, France
• Nice, France
• La Spezia, Italy
• Florence, Italy
• Rome, Italy (this is where i'm meeting up with Maria the Fabulous) 
• Venice, Italy
• Lake Bled, Slovenia
• Zagreb, Croatia
• Beograd, Serbia
• Sofia, Bulgaria
• Istanbul, Turkey
• Bucharest, Romania
• Brasov, Romania
• Budapest, Hungary
• Bratislava, Slovakia
• Prague, Czhech Republic (this will be our ending point of this glorious vacation, and from here we're flying back to Norway)

But my trip won't stop here, after landing in my country of origin, it's time for the semi-anual "halfway-around-Norway-in-a-very-short-time-and-with-no-more-money-trip", thus the voyage continues;

• Oslo, Norway
• Grimstad, Norway
• Stavanger, Norway
• Bergen, Norway (final stop, and time for master thesis, note to my self, bring rain clothes in your rucksack)

My ideal plan is to make a blog entry for every city I visit (maybe a bit delayed, but anyways), but as I've lived in Spain for a while now, I've found myself very much at ease with the mañana mañana mentality, so we'll see. As well as I'm sending my beloved macbook back to Norway, and as well it's vacations and not exam periods, I imagine my visits to CyberSpace a bit less frequent. 

I'll keep you posted!

Song of the day from my I-pod shuffle (with very limited space of only 2GB music for one month) (I do miss my Iphone and my offline Spotify)

"Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeah's