My trip to USA and Tom Fulp's question: "So what's Slovenia like?" were the inspiration for this article. So if you're interested in learning a bit of geography or reading an experience of someone's trip from an unknown country to a big country go ahead and take a read.

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Going to USA, more particulary Comic Con and meeting all the people is an awesome experience, especially if you're about six thousand miles away from it. What's not awesome is when you're coming from a small country with the population of 2 million people no one knows about called Slovenia.

It's ok not to know. Everybody learns someday, but it gets funny when you encounter a person who gets smart by saying: "I was there...Russia and those countries.". Russia? Russia doesn't have absolutely anything to do with Slovenia nor it's remotely close to it. Some person went to extremes by asking if we have television or internet. Sure, classic television, broadband television, HD tv's of all sizes, you name it. DSL's from as low as 256/256 kbit/s to VDSL's from 60/25mbps and FTTH to 1/1Gbps. No packages, only flat rate. So cheap it's almost free.

Slovenia was part of a more known country called Yugoslavia but it all fell apart in 1991 when a Balkan war occured and now all the countries which formed Yugoslavia became independent. It was a bloobath for 5 years here until the peace was signed by the leaders of Yugoslavia. 140000+ dead, many more still missing and over million people left homeless. I was old enough to still remember all the alarms and bombings while I was still living in Croatia which is a neighbour country of Slovenia. It was an only 10 day war in Slovenia with a minor number of casualties (15+-) and no architectural damage whatsoever. There was this person at Comic Con who was in Slovenia before the war so I was asked if Slovenia recovered from it and how damaged it was which was funny since there was almost no war or damage in Slovenia at all.

History and drama aside, Slovenia is a tourist country with lots and lots of green colors, mountains, castles and wild rivers. Although it's full of nature stuff, there are also a couple of bigger cities as well as some smaller ones. Recently, it has been accepted to European Union which is funny since some people from European countries such as France still don't know about Slovenia.

Lately, the capital city of Slovenia - Ljubljana (don't even try to pronounce it) is full of tourists from all over the world (also USA). The reactions are always very positive and some of the people don't even want to go back. The best thing is that it's got everything you need in a really small package. Meaning, you can literally go for a coffee on the coast and go back to the other part of the country in just a couple of hours. So all in all, you can see the coast, mountains, castles and cities in just 24 hours or less. I never tried it but I believe so. And, that's only if you're driving all the time. It would take you a couple of days to actually see and feel everything which is still a really small amount for a country as big as USA. I really love USA's visuals and I plan on visiting every bigger attraction but it's so damn hard since you have to use the plane for everything.

I'm not gonna go into details anymore since you have Wikipedia and Google for all the info but if someone decides to come visit the country be sure to notify me.

There's this guy who asked me what's it like there in Scandinavia. I'll leave this blatant question which is wrong in oh so many ways for you to uncover using the internetz and do your homework at the same time. If they don't teach you geography in school, you should do it yourself because knowing about the world is not a bad thing at all.

Huge props to k2xL who actually knew the capital city of Slovenia.