Slovenia, The Hidden Gem
September 10 to 15, 2015
We hadn't realized just how close Slovenia is to Villa Opicina and with the very limited amount of English in the small border town, all of our asking about where the train station was to get to Slovenia was translated into where is Slovenia. We had read a lot of blogs and forums explaining the journey to Ljubljana and everyone told us it was difficult, that there was only one train and if we were to miss that we would have to retrace our steps all the way back to Trieste. This led us to frantically searching out the train station with no clear map and no signs along the way. Not being able to find the station on our own we started asking people along the road where to go and decided to trust them as more and more people pointed us in a way we thought was contradictory to our map-knowledge. After about 45 minutes of walking out of town, along a highway, bags in tow, we found, not the train station, but the Slovenia border. We had accidentally walked to Slovenia. Mission accomplished… kind of...
Ljubljana
September 10 to 12, 2015
Ljubljana was also a city of a few important firsts for us. It was the first country of the Former Yugoslavia that we visited and the history of Yugoslavia ended up being a shaping theme of our trip. It was also the first city where we took advantage of a free walking tour, something that we would do again almost everywhere we visited. Lastly, it was our first less-travelled stop, and offered us the beginning of our feelings of discovery.
A City of Art
We ate Horse!
Ljubljana Castle
Kranj
September 13, 2015
Bled
September 14 to 15, 2015
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