Croatia and Slovenia 2008

Some observations from my experiences in Slovenia and Croatia
I went to an AA convention in both countries and was made so welcome by polite and helpful people.
Slovenia has luscious big beds and Croatia has small ones and not so luscious.
Why are STOP signs in English?
Hvala is: Thank you. I could sell them some vowels fro Hawaii.
Blauplunket radios in all the cars, good sounds.
Fantastic red hair colors on all the ladies, not the men yet, and also some very crazy hair cuts.
To match the red hair - red shoes.
Frizer is the name for the hair salons, not all are frizzed as I thought.
Droga, I thought was for the pharmacy, not, it is for perfume.
Smokers are very polite. I was always asked if I minded.
A showroom with a purple kitchen - YES
Music was from the USA and the 50's and 60's, I sang all the time as I knew the words.
Big Mac was 24.90 tollars, 6.4 tollars to the US dollar.
Late night TV is live sex, at least I could understand that.
MOVING MISHAPS
Went the wrong way on the train, only once.
Missed the train, once, I listened to the wrong person, that was pricey, had to stay in Zagreb and it is expensive.
I felt like I was on a movie set as I watched the train move away as I stood on the platform.
Sat on a tram seat, was warm from the person before me?
No, there is a funnel under the seat to bring up warm air from the engine. It must get really cold there, eh?
Also, the churches all have radiators in each pew.
A bar in the supermarket would have made me happy years ago.
EMT people are on motorcycles, clever.
Croatia has Baroque architecture and also bullet holes. Heavy stuff.

Scariest:
On my way to a massage wearing only the hotel robe, feeling bit randy and am in the elevator,
when an alarm goes off and the door that was on it's way to open slammed shut with the force of a guillotine.
Now I am frozen in my slippers, what to do? I pushed the alarm and found out that it will not stay on.
Must keep pushing it like a door bell, guess it is a way to know you are still alive.
I used up a lot of adrenalin in that elevator and was not so relaxed for the massage.

All in all, I was treated with so much respect and kindness. I now have new friends in this part of the world