Today was fairly uneventful, so this will be a short post.

I woke up at my hostel in Venice around 8:30. I had slept 9.5 hours, I must have been exhausted. I stumbled downstairs and asked for my included breakfast. To my dismay, it was not all you can eat. It was simply an apricot croissant, a cup of coffee, and a small cup of orange juice. Everything was good, but I was still a bit hungry afterward. I went back to my room, packed up, and headed toward the ferry terminal. I had to cross the main canal to get to the bus terminal. I arrived at the FLixbus terminal 30 minutes early. I stopped at a nearby gelato stand and got a double cone. Chocolate and pistachio. Both great. I can't say much about the pizza in Venice (sample size of 1), but the gelato is 10/10. 

When I checked the ticket on my phone's flixbus app, I saw that I had been randomly assigned a seat, even though I never paid for a seat reservation. Thankfully they gave me a good seat. The bus left Venice at 10:50 on the dot. No delays today. This bus was much nicer than the bus to Pula, it even had a bathroom on board. I had a whole empty row to myself until a british woman boarded in Trieste. She was older, almost retirement age, and taught at a school for troubled youth. She told me about how difficult her job was, but how she saw hope in a few of her students which kept her motivated.

We chatted for an half hour or so, then the bus made a stop in Slovenia for food. I ate at the cafeteria style food bar, getting a plate of kabobs and rice, along with some cream cake. It was all delicious. I scarfed down my lunch and hopped back on the bus. I did not want to overstay and have the bus leave without me.

The british woman fell asleep in the seat next to me after that, and I spent the rest of the trip booking train tickets to Vienna tomorrow, and planning my day. I also had to figure out the logistics of flying with my bicycle on Friday. Tomorrow will be my last full day in Europe (at least for this summer).

I arrived at the bus station in Graz around 5:30. I walked 45 minutes to the train station where I had left my bike. I had also booked another night at the train station hostel. On my way there I stopped again at Onkel Donald's kebab shop. I ordered a beer and doener kebab wrap. It was just as good as the first time I had it. The bread was fresh out of the pizza oven, and the meat fresh sliced from the rotisserie log. Heaven.

I then stopped at a Lidl and got desert, a container of ice cream and a melon. I ate them both when I got to the hostel kitchen. I spend the next couple hours chilling in my hostel room. It seems I have the whole room to myself, at least for now. People are staying here by the look of the messed up bed sheets, but the people are elsewhere right now.