One of the greatest things about living in central Europe and in a small country, it makes it pretty easy to travel to other countries. During the summer, we had friends visiting Italy and it’s about an hour drive to the Italian border from where we live. Since we were meeting them in Venice, we opted to take a bus there, which isn’t a horribly long commute, but we ran into some issues. From here, we had a bus transfer in Trieste, but since our first bus was late, naturally we missed our connection. And boy was it such a task for the bus company to figure out what to do and there was a language barrier that wasn’t working in our favor. You’d think it would be as easy as just getting us onto another bus, instead, they bought us a train ticket since they didn’t have any other scheduled buses that day for that route. [Read more…]