I want to go to Slovenia!

[Erik]

Area:
total: 20,273 sq km
land: 20,151 sq km
water: 122 sq km

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than New Jersey

 

[lizard]

this should help...
http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/slovenian.htm

 

[Lee_B]

I guess it's unlikely you could fly direct to Ljubljana from the US, but I know EasyJet fly there from London so it'd only be one stop.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than New Jersey

What? That's crazy! ha ha

I guess it's unlikely you could fly direct to Ljubljana from the US, but I know EasyJet fly there from London so it'd only be one stop.

I've found 1-stop flights from NJ/NYC -> Ljubljana, but the price is insane ($1500 US r/t). I've found flights to Trieste, Italy that are about $1000 US r/t, but even that....sigh....

 

[Thanatopsis123]

looks pretty cool ... but for some reason DELIVERANCE came to mind

I was just going to say it looked like parts of Arkansas and then I saw this. (That didn't take place in Arkansas by the way)

 

[lurch70]

yeah, summer flights in and out of Europe, you know the deal on pricing.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

It's ridiculous. It didn't used to be this insane. I flew r/t to Germany for under $800 in 2003.

 

[lurch70]

i agree, last time I went to Hungary in 2000, it wasn't even $400 r/t, granted it was in October ... might be the high fuel prices.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Oh I'm sure rising cost of fuel has something to do with it, but really, it makes it so that the average person simply cannot afford to travel.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

yeah. my flight (the cheapest) is $1600.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

So it's the same cost (basically) for me, on the east coast of the U.S., to get to Slovenia as it is for you, 3500 miles away?

That's what I mean. If it was JUST fuel costs, that couldn't possibly be the case. It's just the airlines RIPPING US THE FUCK OFF. [/rant]

 

[Erik]

terrorism has won

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

nemtheanga

 

[lurch70]

when nothing else comes to mind ...

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Last time I flew there, I flew into vienna first, then took a hop over to Ljubljana. I believe the flight to Vienna was around 700-800. As far as accomodations, I lucked out since my uncle and his wife live in Ljubljana, so I stayed there. I do know that hotels within the capital are reasonable, or so I have been told. Within the city you can pretty much walk anywhere or take cheap public transportation via bus. There are a variety of bus services throughout the country as well, that seemed to be the easiest mode of travel that I found. Travel really wasnt a hassle, I didnt run into a great number of fluent english speakers, but I managed to get by without having to have an interpreter. The bus and train stations in the capital were a breeze getting through, people I met were generally friendly, no one seemed to vehemently anti-american or anything.

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

Last time I flew there, I flew into vienna first, then took a hop over to Ljubljana. I believe the flight to Vienna was around 700-800. As far as accomodations, I lucked out since my uncle and his wife live in Ljubljana, so I stayed there. I do know that hotels within the capital are reasonable, or so I have been told. Within the city you can pretty much walk anywhere or take cheap public transportation via bus. There are a variety of bus services throughout the country as well, that seemed to be the easiest mode of travel that I found. Travel really wasnt a hassle, I didnt run into a great number of fluent english speakers, but I managed to get by without having to have an interpreter. The bus and train stations in the capital were a breeze getting through, people I met were generally friendly, no one seemed to vehemently anti-american or anything.

Cool, that sounds awesome.

I'm so in love with Europe, especially these newer "modern" countries, i.e. ye olde Europe. I so badly want to see them, and the costs associated are just so prohibitive for me right now.

But that sounds sweet. I never even thought of Slovenia until I read about this Metal Camp festival, then I started doing a little bit of research and was amazed at how utterly gorgeous the country seems to be.

 

[Erik]

I'm so in love with Europe, especially these newer "modern" countries

slovenia is one of the "modern" european countries now?

 

[MadeInNewJersey]

I knew I'd be misunderstood, but probably because I didn't explain myself well.

What I mean is old bloc countries who are just recently being discovered by the west, etc. Slovenia is of course a very old nation, but it wasn't exactly a hub of tourism even 15 years ago.

Does that make more sense?

 

[JayKeeley]

I'm paying $3600 for 4 roundtrip airfares from NY to London in July.

Unbelievable. (And this was the cheapest I could find). Flying just aint what it used to be.

 

[Demilich]

$490 return flight Toronto to Paris, my girlfriend and I might go for it, but we need to decide by the end of February and... fuck, so much schoolwork! No time to decide!