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Charging in Lublijana, Slovenia

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Ljublijana is full with charging stations. Most of them are free, it is only required to register online. Since there is free Wifi also almost anywhere in Lublijana this is also not a hard task.After we arrived in the late afternoon in Lublijana and checked in with our Airbnb host, we drove to the city, entered a parking lot, tried for about 10 minutes to get the charging (22 Kilowatt) going and managed eventually.

After a stroll through the city and a walk up to the old fortress the car was charged at 95%. I wish, it would be always that easy.

Charging in… St. Stefan – Austria

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The mobile charging unit NRGkick is probably the most essential thing that we drive around in our car. It’s pretty much like a wall box, that let’s us charge anywhere. Any socket works for us thanks to the NRGkick. Dietmar Niederl, CEO of Dinitech, the company behind the NRGkick was so nice to offer us a NRGKick including adapters for free. To say hi to him and see where they produce the NRGkick, we visited him and his company in the beautiful hills of the Steiermark in St. Stefan.

Of course, Dinitech also has 22KW outlets at their company building. We charged there for about an hour. Thank you for the invitation Dietmar and even more for giving us the NRGkick, it’s so precious for us!

The time in between – waiting for our passports

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An athlete that prepared well for his race and is ready now for his run wants nothing more than to finally take off and show that all his training and his hard work, pay off. Not only does an athlete want that but also Benedikt and I just want to finally start our journey. I am not sure how many grey hairs embassies let me grow. A few at least… Due to the Persian New Year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz) around March 20th, our application for the Iranian Visa postponed itself a few days. Getting the Iranian visa could be the content of a whole other post. It was so far, the most bureaucratic, lengthy and expensive visa process I went through. Making it short, it included 3 visits at the embassy and not even at the last visit we could leave our visa documents there. At the Iranian Embassy in Switzerland, every visa applicant needs to get official fingerprints, costing each CHF60, at the local jail. According to the jail officer, Iran has this ruling, because Switzerland asks for fingerprint of any Iranian applicant for a Swiss visa as well. I guess that can make sense…

Anyways, we are hoping that the mail brings us our passports including the Iranian visa tomorrow. We would then send them including all other documents to the Uzbek Embassy in Vienna, where we can, hopefully, pick them up including one more visa, 3 days later.