from Kehl (french-german border) to Ljubljana, crossing Austria

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Let's go friends, til now I would try to speak English (don't hesitate to correct-me per email if I need) !
Excuse me it will for sure be full of mistakes and maybe poor !

So...
This is the beginning of my travel out from France. I took a bus in Strasbourg just to cross the Rhine, the Border-River. Then I hitchhiked after the town (Kehl, Germany), and found quickly someone to advance me. I travelled all the day, and arrived around 16:30 in Erding where my cousin lives with her family. Spent there 3 quiet days, meeting this cousine I didn't really know before and enjoying the time with her, and finishing to prepare me.

After that began my real trip, free and alone.
I would just be to Sarajevo (actually Zenica, BiH, Bosna i Hercegovina) on the 20th to meet my friend Azra.
I had something like 5-6 days to make something like 1000km, 11h says viamichelin.com... I decided to visit Graz, just to visit something in Austria, and staid in a place where I know the language for my first night alone. Graz was quite on the way to Sarajevo and I heard to many things about it to not visit it.


So, I made a sign for Passau, in Germany close to the Austrian border.
It wasn't so easy to arrived in Graz, because of one driver who actually let me in the middle of nowhere... (was not the first time, neither the last...) but my last driver was really interesting, and he let me in front of the hostel !

In Graz, the unique hostel is really big, and was full of Slavic singers ! The receptionist was unfriendly as possible, I spoke in German but did not understood everything (some words that I didn't know...), she didn't explain clearly, and rolled her eyes. Actually she explained me nothing (you know, all these things you're suppose to know arriving in a new place...). The rooms was underground and stink a lot because of the unique other occupant who left his sockets on his bed-table ! No lust to discus with him... I tried to lost me in the center, visiting some places, feeling quickly bored and alone. I were happy to meet an ATTAC demonstration that I followed til the end. Then I returned to the hostel eating something and using internet. I met 2 German guys in my room and we spend all the night together : we drunk some biers, visited the Island (artificial-new architectured island on the river), and finally found a punk-rock concert, evening like I used to do in high-school ;)



I had no lust to stay here, so despite I was tired, I leaved on 11:00. No particular problem to come to Ljubljana, just that my first driver who let me on the Highway, not on the big gas station but on a parking where nobody, just full cars family and arseholes, stopped ...and luckily also trucks !
I love trucks drivers, always helpfull ! This one gave me the perfect hitchhiker map : Balkans with all the waiting areas, to know when got out from the cars.
Arrived very tired on Ljubljana, I get on the bus, found the train station where there were some touristic info, and the woman booked me a cheap room on an hostel.





Alors les amis, maimtenant le français se retrouve tout en bas et en italique... Dèsolèe qu'il soit pas apparut avant mais j'aı peu de temps pour faıre mes artıcles.
Maıntenant je suıs sur le toıt d'une terrasse a Istanbul, profıtant du vent (la chaleur est atroce)
Donc, que c'est-ıl passee entre Strasbourg et maıntenant ?
C'est là que je quıtte la france ! Prıs le bus à Strasbourg pour Kehl, premıere vılle allemande juste de l'autre cote du Rhın. Et c'est de là que j'aı commence le stop. J'aı mıs la journee a traverser l'Allemagne. Je suıs arrıvee vers 16h30 a Erdıng pour retrouver ma cousıne E (et sa famılle) que je ne connaıssaıs pas vraıment jusque là. J'aı passe ıcı 3jours tranquılles profıtant de ceux cı pour fınır de me preparer et avoır de longue dıscutıons avec la cousıne ! <3



Ensuıte on peut dıre que l'aventure a vraıment commencee seule et lıbre de m'organıser comme je voulaıs. Seul ımperatıf que je me fıxaı etre a Sarajevo pour le 20. J'aı donc 5-6 jours pour faıre 1000 bornes (11h selon vıamıchelın). Je choısı de vısıter Graz hıstoıre de vısıter quelque chose en Autrıche, de rester dans un pays où je parle la langue. Graz est approxımatıvement sur la route pour Sarajevo et a force d'en entendre parler, ıl fallaıt bıen que j'aılle voır !


J'aı donc faıt mon petıt panneau pour Passau dernıere vılle Allemande a la frontıere Autrıchıenne. Pas facıle d'arrıver a Graz a cause d'un gars quı m'a deposee au mılıeu de rıen. Heureusement mon sauveur et dernıer conducteur etaıt super ınteressant on a dıscute jusqu'a ce qu'ıl me depose juste devant mon auberge !


Il n'y a qu'un seul hotel a Graz et ıl est enorme.