Turning things around

As you might remember, the last leg of my trip was supposed to be a couple days long stay in Dortmund. However, as the boyfriend I was going to visit had dumped me just before I got on this trip, things changed. The very day he did it, I bought a new ticket to fly back to Poland, for the next day. And then, a couple of hours later, I came to a conclusion I was too rush in my decision, as I've a friend in Munich who has been inviting me many times over (the ever so cute Paula from the French trip) and I thought I could just hitch to see her for a couple of days and then return to Dortmund to get on my originally booked plane.

For many days the idea of flying to Dortmund was literally haunting me, to the point where I was considering a) buying an expensive flight back home from Sofia and b) hitch hiking to Poland all the way from Sofia. None of the above were to my real liking, though. Then I thought - ok, I'll land in Dortmund on Monday 7:30am and just go straight to Munich, no biggie, no harm done. Somehow though, spending my days alone in Munich, Paula has a job and all (who does that??), didn't seem all that exciting either.

So I was struggling to make up my mind about what to do, but was sure I'd need one night in Dortmund in case I was taking the Tuesday flight back home. I found a really cool host, he and his flatmates agreed to take me in, so Dortmund wasn't looking all that bad any more. Once that was done, I felt a sense of relief and decided going back home on Tuesday was just plain stupid! I took a look at the map and have decided what follows:

Mon: flight Sofia-Dortmund, spend the night there

Tue: hitch to Stuttgart (heard it's nice, never been there, it's on the way to Munich, found a nice host), spend the night there

Wed: hitch to Munich, spend a couple of days at Paula's place

Sat: hitch to Salzburg or Linz, depending on where Benigna (Austrian friend from before my flight to Bombay) is gonna tell me to come

Mon: hitch through the Czech Republic and depending on how fast I get rides, spend the night in Ostrava or Katowice

Tue: arrive in Warsaw

All looked peachy and then Paula wrote me that her parents will be visiting her over the weekend and on Sunday going back home, i.e. Frankfurt (Oder), giving me a ride all the way to the German-Polish border, from where I could hitch to Warsaw on Monday within 5 hours.

Now all that's left to do is decide which option to take - hitching home from Austria or Frankfurt.

Any suggestions?

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PS
There's a hip hop club in Sofia that kicks ass!

Not to be making generalizations

But Greek hitch hiking kinda sucks.

At least today it did.

I don't know what it is, but for the 1st time ever I had to tell the driver to stop the car and get out.

Then a couple of dodgy drivers we said 'Thanks but no thanks' to.

Oh, and that hitching spot wasn't the greatest either :)

In the end, however, we got a very comfortable and interesting ride from outside of Serres straight into Sofia with Alex, a tour and event manager going back home from a tour with some Americans. I learnt what hard core music is [no, not hard rock, hard core...] and had a cool conversation about life and our 'career' choices.

We left Chris's place at 10:12 and were getting on the tube in Sofia at 16:16. Overall, not bad. actually!