my wanderings: all photos are mine and every tale is true ;o)

20/04/2001 First quest: find parking lot in Bratislava The capital of Slovakia in 2001 was small town packed with cars. When you driving around morning town on working day silly things happen, like getting to Petrzalka for no reason instead of city centre, or mistake the main square for free parking lot (at first: “wow, finally!” then “ops, some uniformed people are moving toward our car, let's go, go, GO!”) - such things just happened, it's ok, keep calm. Now, at 11 am we got to the Czech consulate, where we learn that we have a visa all right, but consul did not manage to sign it yet (must be busy: being a Czech consul in Slovakia, so much to learn in foreign parts, so many things could go wrong when you are in different culture on strange alien land, right?). So at the moment Czech consul in Slovakia is stuck in traffic and would be lucky to get to work before 14.00pm. We were recommended to check on him at 14. Judge how much we had to do in the town since we went to Macdo...

After 1. year in Oslo Uni my friend and me decided to have a tour up north till the end of the earth it was time of film photos, my attempt to recover them is here:  Norway We had no money and little idea how to get there, so we started from buying a train tickets to the last train station up there - Bodo, and hitchhike the rest of the way. And we did. It wasn't easy as not many people those days were familiar with the concept of hitchhiking so we spent long hours on the roads. But we reach our goal - Nordcap, and got back safely (well, apart from being swept by horrible storm and almost eaten by mosquitos).  Part of the trip was cruising among Lofoten islands - that was the part when I said: I need to do it again!  And many years later - I did, and that's how it went: 1. Munchausen  Yes, the famous baron Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen, the very one. No, in his fantastic stories about his military service in Russia he was not getting anywhere close to...