Road to Steemfest3 (10): The Physical Road 🚗✈️✈️🚕

The tenth installment in my #roadtosteemfest series, the brain-child of @anomadsoul as he encourages attendees, and those trying their hardest to get there, to write about their journey along the way.

If you missed the first nine posts, you can catch up here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, if you wish.

And now that you have totally not clicked any of the links above, let's begin...

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The physical road

In less than 3 weeks, myself and hundreds of other Steemians will have arrived in Krakow and will have soaked up Wednesdays action. Will there be hangovers heading to the 2nd full day? - likely! Personally, I like a beverage to pass the time during travels, but wont be too 'cooked' when I arrive late Tuesday afternoon.

The journey will begin on the east coast of Mallorca, Spain. It's about an hour in the car to the airport along the new road, and I'm hoping to be kindly driven there by my mum's partner. He'll likely be called up a week later for the ride back home, and I will be offering him fuel money for sure. The bus service slows down heavily from the 1st of November, and I'd need to take a 1.5 hour ride to the capital, Palma, and then another bus out to the airport. I'm pretty sure the timetable isn't great for my departure/arrival times, and so I'm hoping a lift will present itself here.

The next leg is a flight from Palma to Frankfurt, a 2.5 hour flight to central Germany. As with the buses, it is not possible to get a direct flight to Krakow from Mallorca in November and had the event been a month earlier, a 3.5 hour single flight would have done the job. Oh well, a two hour layover isn't so bad. By the time I've disembarked, visited the services and located when the next boarding gates are, I don't think I'll have too long to wait.

This is where the battery USB charger I have will come into it's own. It can charge my phone 3/4 times from flat, and still keep my Vape ticking over too - at the same time! This will allow me the ability to curate, write a post, and/or play @steemmonsters to my hearts content. If the last week is anything to go by, it'll likely be the 3rd mentioned activity taking over my phone time. I also like to nosey around airports I've not visited before, but I think I did have a transfer at Frankfurt almost 20 years ago, en route back from Thailand to the UK. To be fair, I was probably still concussed with a loud ringing in my ears, so I'm willing to forgive myself for not being 100% sure if I've visited Frankfurt airport before.

At around 4:10 local time, the 2nd flight lasting 1.5 hours will hopefully depart to Krakow in Poland. And if anyone reading this is arriving at around 5:40 local time, be sure to let me know so we can share a cab to the hotels in the city. With or without a fellow Steemian or two, this will likely be my method of transport to the living quarters for the week. And actually, it's not a hotel I'm staying at, but a 24 hour party poker den house - I hope (not) :D

Last year I used AirBnb, and the same is true this time around. @anomadsoul has arranged a house which is apparently very close to the Hotels being advertised by @roelandp. This should hopefully ensure we are not late for any coach trips, and also means I'll be heading to Carrefour prior to the trip to pick up some decent ear-plugs. The chances of heavy snorers, or who knows what else is a worry, but hopefully it will allow the the house guests some decent bonding time over a beer,or a game of poker, or whatever else comes up.

The price of renting a house, split between guests, is a bit cheaper than a hotel room for the week and so this is another bonus, especially in my and likely many peoples situation right now. Clearly it would be very good timing for a little pump in the price of STEEM over the next couple of weeks, but I'm not holding my breath. Steemfest has coincided with a lull in the markets for both years so far, and I don't expect much difference this time. The good news is that following the previous SteemFests, the price has risen nicely - almost a 10x rise in price from November 2017 to January 2018. More of the same here please!

Before I forget, I should probably mention that the SteemFest app was very handy last year, and i'm just about to download this years offering - when I've deleted a few apps I don't use, and any suspect photos I can find too 😛

Alright, that's it from me for today, and I've just one more message from sunny Mallorca for you.....

Cheers!

Asher