Ljubljana's Main Square

Entry containing 2 photos titled: LJUBLJANA

September 1, 2012

Arrival evening September 1, depart morning September 2

Slovenia and its capital, Ljubljana, turned out to be one of the biggest surprises so far - it is the one place on this trip to date that I wish I had stayed longer than just the one night. Slovenia is part of the EU, although like its cousin countries I …

... was it, 20 minutes more like!!  Thankfully the walk took me past some of the best sights in the city - the 3 bridges, the main square and down alongside the river past the line of bars known as the 'beach'.  The ruddy cleaner hadn't turned up ...

... minute. 'I'm not going to last this' Jess told me. 'Me either' I said so we found a café attached to a hotel just near the main square that had stayed open. Jess and I had two cocktails each and also a coffee while the girls had a couple of drinks too. ...

It was time to say goodbye to our Christmas home and move on to see in the New Year in Ljubljana, Slovenia. There was no hurry for us to vacate our apartment - Kristijan has allowed us until 11 to leave, which gave us time to get ready then go to the ...

... tour of the city that I went on yesterday evening, which took us up to the castle (yes, another castle) and to the main square and old town areas. I saw the famous Triple Bridge and the nearly as famous Dragon Bridge, the Cathedral, the Parliament and ...

... locally. We think that because after about 5 minutes of leaving the square, a group of about 30 hoodlums ran by us, heading toward the main square. Then a minute later at least 10 cop cars and SWAT vans flew by us. Even though we saw a bit of action, we ...

... a regular consumer of the national drink, borovnice - warm blueberry schnapps! We wandered around the market and Ljubljana again today. There was a Tyrolean sort of band playing near our hotel in the Kongresni Trg this morning and more ...

... 2 minutes and then the sprinkles stopped and we could see slight breaks in the clouds.  We walked up to the main square, Preseren Square, and the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation and this is where there are some unusual art exhibits that are ...

... the middle of Wisconsin. That's right, Slovenia, you're like home to me. Right down to your chandelier that illuminates the main square, and your dragon statues along the three bridges across the river, and your many cafes with beautiful, thick-rimmed ...

... to lounge around and explore Ljubljana. We walked to our hostel to drop off the backpacks then headed down to the main square. The buildings in Slovenia were really different from the architecture Jenna and I have seen so far-- it was much more like ...

... early. the next day we went sightseeing. little did we know, there was a sort of ex-Yugoslav basket-ball competition in the main square. the center was packed, but it was quite cool to watch some basketball in the sun, while in the shadow of an 15th ...