I'm in Argos right now. I say Mycenia this morning (not much to write home about after Ephesus.) I'm heading to Athens tomorrow night, and fly to Rome on Friday the 3rd.
I don't think I'm spending much time in Italy. It's a place I can see just as easily later in life. So I'll spend a few days in Rome, then quickly exit (hopefully by ferry) to Croatia. I really got to give it up to Croatia. They seem to be willing to post a schedule, albeit reduced for the winter, and more or less stick with it.
More details will follow.
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Uhh.. right.. didn't I tell you about the time we were on a ferry boat for the mainland that was to stop for pickups at 3 scheduled islands, and he skipped the 3rd island because too many people got on at the first 2?
I'm not saying he didn't go back later for the people from the 3rd island. I'm just saying the plans weren't communicated. And if you got on at one of the first 2, hoping to get off at the 3rd, you were good and well screwed.
/pbz
Croatia has been OK more often than not. There is an undercurrent of what appears to be barely subdued chaos but they do impress you from time to time. For example, the boat we usually take. It leaves at a given time. But, if they know there is an international plane landing shortly before the boat is supposed to leave, they will hold the boat. Regardless of the schedule.
This is a city where there is only 1 international air arrivals a week, so it is a big deal, but it just shows they're trying..
Another story. The same international plane was overweight because of all the Americans with their giant suitcases for their long trip. So they just left some of the suitcases behind for the next day's (connecting) flight. Predictably there was chaos when ~20 people realized they weren't going to have their bags. The agent dutifully took down all the contact information. And miraculously, the next day, the lost suitcase made it from Amsterdam through the connection in Zagreb, to the airport in Zadar, onto the right ferry, and all the way to our island. Somehow. No one on the boat seemed to know that there was a suitcase onboard to be delivered, but, we had suspected it might be on that boat (remember--things operate by rumor and innuendo), so we waited for everyone got off the boat, then we got on unmolsted despite being without tickets and having no reason to get ON the boat, since it wasn't going anywhere. Bam, there was the suitcase, sitting there waiting to be collected.
/pbz
So it seems that Croatia is still at that stage where people make things happen. They haven't developed and implemented an incredibly complex system to automate the world. There's a lot to be said for that.
In the former, someone can tell me, "Don't worry, it will work out" and I believe them, don't worry, and know it will be ok.
In the latter, "Don't worry" sends me into overdrive to activate the redundencies that I've had to build into my plan.
It might be either, but as far as backup plans, the only backup plan needed is time. Things work themselves out in time. Olibian motto: We have nothing but time.
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