Hey There.Have you ever been stuck? Like cars in this little traffic jam:To give you the back story. Slovenia is a transit country when the whole of Europe decides to go to the seaside. So over the weekends throughout the summer, high tourist season, roads are jammed. So as a local, when you travel, you pick a small border crossing with Croatia. Not one of the major crossings everyone knows about. One that locals use and (know of) and has only one board police officer who's happy to have some company every now and then.Yeah right. Who invented navigation (optimisation) apps and wrote the wrong algorithm.So we drive through the middle of nowhere and are meeting a lot of foreign cars. Mostly German. And then, 2,5km before the border, we come across the cars waiting in line. Huh.My dad walks a few meters forward to check we are not stuck due to an accident or something. But no, the line for border crossing is just that long. OK, no crossing here. So we turn around and head back to the village and towards another border crossing.We meet a few stuck drives that didn't know how to drive up the hill, but we eventually cleared the road.Then we are about to cross the village:Google maps doesn't show it nicely, but the street is wide enough for one car tops. Through the whole village. Add several hundred german drivers used to motorways and no clue where they are, and you have a clusterfk.Oh, and there was no side road to move the cars onto. So my dad jumped out of the car (again) and helped with few other drivers coordinate the cars and re-open the road. For about 15 minutes, they were playing cops. Since I was driving, I sadly missed all the fun. Or, let's say, watched it from behind the steering wheel.At the other border crossing, we waited for about 30 minutes. We then finally got over to Croatia for our short Istra city trip.Then when we were returning home in the evening, we were up for another surprise. We give the documents to the Croatian policeman and he wawes us over.
OK, but where is the Slovenian cop?
Oh, he went home.
Huh.
Yeah, he went home to take a break about an hour ago.
OK bye, ...
So if a cop can take a break from his post on the national border in the middle of the highest tourist season and with another wave of corona closing in then, I can take a break from the Life Experiment weekly newsletter 🙂
Break
This edition is coming a bit later than usual. Why? Was a bit of an idiot and scheduled sth, else into my newsletter writing hours.Not just that. I also realised that I'm getting a bit stuck creatively. With 34 issues and eight months since the beginning of this year, it has been a good run. But as in 2020 it's time for a short sabbatical. So what have we coverd in the last eight months? A lot to be frank:
And those were just newsletters 🙂 A lot, a lot of content. Just writing the summary down and going over all the content took me a while.As with the last sabbatical, we'll resume in October. 5th of October 2021, to be exact. I'll be making the most out of the "free space" in my mind. Probably working on the focus book and some business mechanics. More on that towards the end of the year.We'll close the year with three newsletter issues, one in October, one in November and one in December and then ramp it back up again in January 2022 with a weekly edition.Till then.Ziga
