Ljubljana, Slovenia 9/10-9/12

First of all, great thanks to Jaka for his recommendations to visit Slovenia. To date it is one of our favorite places.

In Ljubljana we were greeted by Rok, a hostel owner. The hostel is very new, very clean with friendly staff, a very big kitchen and huge terrace. The reason I mention the indoors is because we actually spent quite a bit of time there as we were planning for the next leg of our trip. And it’s so rare to find a pleasant common area in a hostel.

Our first lunch was in a restaurant down the street. This place was recommended to us by a random American on a street that approached us, asked a few generic questions and then pointed us to this restaurant. A few minutes after we sat down, he caught up with us and joined us for a beer as he waited for a museum to open up.  Levka would like me to add to this entry that I got wasted from half a bottle of Radler. You can see the picture below. To my defense, it was really hot outside, we haven’t eaten all day and I didn’t know what Radler was when I started drinking it.

From 2011.09.10 Ljubljana

The city itself is probably the friendliest place that we have visited. The center of town is spread across two banks of the river. And the two banks are connected by a dozen walking bridges. The bridges are about 200 meters apart. So it’s easy to meander from one side to the other and spend an entire day walking around, eating, then walking, then eating, then resting, then eating. This is pretty much what we did. We also took a short break from the eating by hiking up to the castle. Apparently it is place where everyone gets married. Levka inadvertently walked in front of a video camera as it was taping the wedding procession. His back is forever immortalized in somebody else’s wedding video.

The evening  brought more eating and entertainment - we especially enjoyed a group of bachelors dancing on the streets. The groom-to-be was wearing only a thong and had 4 little kegs strapped to his back. Levka said that this is a bachelor party that the groom will never forget. I’m pretty sure he will never remember it :)

After 2 days of exploring Ljubljana we were off to Bled.

2011.09.10 Ljubljana