26-VII-1978.

Returning from the vacation, with a brief trip to Trieste on the way back, for some shopping. I think we went there together, my parents, she and I, in the škodilak alone, having left the stuff in our tents in Ankaran. Taking the car across the border, with the trailer full of tent and other camp equipment, simply made no sense, specially not in the thick city traffic. The car alone, however, did. Arpi and his pal returned by train a couple of days before.

Exchanged the remaining soviet rubles for lire and used that money to buy headphones, finally having real ones. Lasted for years. The exchange rate at the border wasn't too great, but I heard that downtown they may not take rubles at all, and the cost was one year-old thin jeans, the pair I bought last summer and then sold them in Kiev. This was my third and I think last trip to Trieste. Actually not, the last one was the day after. For some reason we repeated the trip the next day.

The orange stamps are romanian; the dark purple is german and the black square ones are of SFRY.

Eči, Živa, Šaki and one more guy went to a vacation in someone's old VW beetle. Of provisions, they brought a bundle of čajna sausage* and at least 80 hard boiled eggs. They returned few days ago, and Eči gave us a full account - who got drunk, spoke fluently... Memorable quote: „fifth day I thought we have gone through the full and exhaustive assortment of all the possible jokes that can be made with sausage and eggs. But no... five more were invented that day, and then they only got on the roll...“.

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* despite „čaj“ meaning tea, nobody knows of a case that it was eaten with tea. It's like peperoni, but thinner, about one inch in diameter, and rather stiff. Good for vacations, as it's not perishable.

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Mentions: Arpad Gunaroši (Arpi), Endre Felbab (Eči), Šaki, škodilak, Živa Ravajlović, in serbian

10-III-2020 - 31-X-2025