Apartments Urh Ljubljana

I arrived in Ljublijna by train and wandered down towards the river to find my hostel. On first impressions I found the city to be a little disappointing, it's a tiny (population of ~250K) with a castle sitting in the centre of the old town, seperated from the new town by the Ljubljanica River. <br><br><br> <br><br>The new town, is reflective of most western cities, with ...

... beautiful lake. They say that ringing the bell in the church on the island grants you a wish. Which is nice, but the downside is that you can hear the churchbells constantly ringing from anywhere around the lake. <br><br>I would have liked to make it out to the island, but instead I chose to hike up one on the surrounding hills (Mala Osojnicato) to see over the whole area. It was a steep climb but I was rewarded with priceless views of not only ...

... well, doing some labour work for Clive, which really made it great fun. All the guests sit at a huge table and the food, beer and wine flow freely (well&#8230;.&#8364;2 for a 500ml beer, so not entirely free). First night we had an American couple, another local English guy who lives in bled (Don), the Scottish boys (Mark and Sunny) and us two. Very amusing dinner. To put it frankly, the American couple were a pain in ...

... you arent booked in... ****, what to do now. I got directions to the next hostel and they said that at 2 am tehy have reception still open so I went there. I got a bed. The dorm was a little room with 12 bed- 7 bunks. I felt bad for arrivng so late because i think i woke about 10 of those people. And here I was cursing the koreans in geneve the other day for making so much noise. And here I was doing the same to all the other people. The next morning I woke about 15 minutes ...

... would not appeal to me that much, but today it meant an opportunity to sit for 20 mins in the warm, and also to justify it to myself on the basis that it was a 'cultural pursuit'. We had 5 minutes to wait before the show began and then we were issued with 3D glasses and a radio receiver and earphones that translated the movie into 5 different languages. The virtual museum provided some interesting information about Ljubljana and there were a few times ...

... only covers 1/3 of the cave system and that is still huge and impressive. The Lippizaner stud farm is 15 minute drive from the caves, so we decided to tour that as well. The Lippizaner's are the white horses used for performances. The most famous of these are the ones from the Vienna school, but the Slovenian ones are just as beautiful and apparently also provide impressive ...

... haven't changed in hundreds of years and lots of forest. Arriving in Divaca, we expected a long walk to the Caves, but somehow found a big coach taking tourists to the attraction. Unfortunately, we were the only tourists, but the bus driver assured us he was going there and didn't charge us so we took a chance and saved ourselves a 45 minute walk! We met a Canadian guy, Dan, who was on the same tour as us of the caves and we walked around the strange ...

Heidi¡¦s Slovenian Birthday Celebration Scott surprised me with a trip to Slovenia for my birthday in December¡Xa perfect gift for my 21st birthday! fº Scott and I flew into Treviso, Italy and were greeted by his cousin Nina and her boyfriend Miha. They drove us across the Slovenian boarder and to Nina¡¦s home where she and her parents surprised us with Slovenian chocolate birthday cake! This was only the ...

Caught the train from Kirchberg to Slovenia. It was the end of summer but lovely weather for shorts and tshirt. There were quite a few travellers at the hostel I stayed at, groups of American on their gap year travels. I got chatting to a friendly guy from Brazil and together we got a local bus to Lake Bled. The autumn colours of the trees were beautiful, we walked around the lake and fed the ducks and swans with bread. Then we hired ...

... formations. The more natural and spectacular Skocjan Caves, also close to Piran, was recommended by a Canadian helicopter pilot up holidaying from Bosnia. He claimed Postojna was Slovenia´s Disneyland. But the lack of a car meant we had to take a bus tour that visited Postojna and the equally famous Lipica Horse Stud. The electric train ride into the Postjona Caves was sort of theme-parkish. But the galleries are spectacular with the rock formations twisting like pasta ...