Showered for the first time in 3 days, and finally arrived in Ljubljana. It was suppose to take us 1 - 1 and a half days to get here, but it took us 2 and a half.

We left Prague around 10am (after an hour or two of rousing Teo out of bed by telephone), and made our steady journey out of the city. We got our first (and my very first) ride out of the city by a chap in a Vodafone-coloured red car who was heading for Ostrava. Our first destination was Brno. All was going well, until the driver stopped at a petrol station to get petrol or refresh himself or whatever, and soon realised he couldn't find his drivers license or wallet. We emptied our things out of his car to help him look, but he never found what he was looking for. We mused that he could have dropped his things as we were putting our gear in the car in Prague. With a pretty grim face he decided he would turn back and left us standing at a petrol station 40km from Prague.
The day continued pretty well, reaching Brno, Bratislava and the edge of Vienna by the evening. It was beginning to get dark and we figured a ride into Vienna city centre at this time wouldn't be any help. We ended up spending a night in my tent in the parking lot by the petrol station. We rolled out our sleeping bags and soon got to sleep on the soft lumpy ground. In the middle of the night though, we both woke up freezing our balls off. Teo fully dressed himself in extra layers in an attempt to reheat his body, while I cocooned myself in my sleeping bag and coiled myself into a foetal position. The cold was coming straight through the ground beneath us and through the thin plastic sheeting of the tent. A polystyrene roll-mat would have been a big help. I'd barely used them before and always found them an unnecessary bulky burden until that night.
After the rough night our spirits were still high for the day ahead, but we were to have hardly any luck that day. From around 9am until 5pm we were practically stood in the same spot. We were too close to Vienna and the majority of the traffic was going towards Bratislava and Budapest.
Much later in the day around 5 a young couple pulled up eating recently-bought ice creams and offered us a lift to Vienna. They was a bit of confusion though and they explained that there wasn't a petrol station in the direction of Graz for another 20km, and so had to drop us in the centre of Vienna.

Next ride:
-Young couple going towards car crash. There was a car crash that had just happened on the road to Graz, so our ride had to pull into a petrol station there. We ended up sleeping at another petrol station somewhere in Austria, this time a little more prepared, but still fucking cold.

Day 3:
-Slovenian girl took us to Slovenj Gradec
-Big Slovenian guy drove us all the way to Ljubljana


Teo in Slovenj Gradec