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My First Trip to Slovenia-Slovenija (November, 2000)

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infect and then destroy a bacterium). This should be fun!

Germany on the ground. Ultramodern land of beer.(before 10:00 am!), trees, and very small bathrooms. OK, admittedly the last statement is based on a sample size of n=1, but still it is almost shocking to walk through the door from a cavernous airport terminal to what is essentially a four-person “airplane” rest room. Everybody apologizing to each other and getting out of each other’s way, all in multiple languages. And the Frankfort airport is at least as confusing an airport as I’ve ever been in (and in a week I’ll be back for a second try). Wow!

But the view from the air on our approach to Frankfurt was amazing. The countryside is divvied up into hamlets with discrete boundaries – no grossly excessive (e.g., normal American) suburban sprawl here – surrounded by cropland, surrounded by forests. Imagine that, a place where one can live near a forest without having to first purchase 300 acres and then waiting 60 years. Yes, I’m going to enjoy Germany. It’s just too bad I’ll only be here for a little over one-half hour.

Flying from Frankfurt

So this is interesting. Here I sit in an Adria Airways Airbus A320 as perhaps the only monolingual English speaker on the airplane. And what is worse, I don’t even know what language is spoken in Slovenia. So much for taking my brother’s advice and learning a few phrases of the language before arriving. Now would be a good moment to have a “Slovenian” phrase book to read as we make our hop over to Ljubljana. At least my language capabilities are limited to English rather than something totally obscure. This should be fun (I naively think as I buckle my belt and await takeoff). (P.S., the in-flight magazine was made for me with an intro to the country, in English! The native tongue of Slovenia is ...