Kongo Hotel & Casino Ljubljana

Hi everyone! When I last wrote we were heading to Ljubljana. Well, we got there safe and sound after a gorgeous train ride through mountains and snow. We had no idea the train would be going through mountains at all so when the scenery starting changing so drastically, we just glued our heads to the window and watched as we went higher and higher. We saw snow on the mountain tops and then ended up seeing snow flurries. Eventually we were at the highest point the train could go ...

... met someone who talked about himself so much! He bigged himself up
about everything..! Boring.. should have just watched him instead! We
then realised he is the first person we have spoken to on holiday! At
all the campsites its generally older foreigners. Everyone keeps
thinking we are German because of the German number plates on the van.
We headed out to town that night for ...

... pedestrians not welcome. after about ten minutes a random taxi drove by and we flagged him down. we were dropped off at our hotel, which did not have our booking :( ..but the lady at the reception was nice enough to drive us to the youth hostel. we went out to eat, having some yummy seafood at a local slovenian type bar-kzst jam-in restaurant. we tried to go out, but the pub crawl was lacking... so we went back to our ...

... I had a tiny nibble off the side of the burger and struggled to swallow it. John took a whole mouthful and instantly regretted it!! Disgusting. We found some more palatable food before returning to the hostel. We had requested to rent some bikes for the day but we had to wait around in the lobby for over 30 minutes because of a group of Spanish idiots. They were complaining that their room was unfit for human habitation because it didn't have a hand rail on the ...

... bucketing down and my chain came off. So that little bit of enthusiasm was quickly doused and we hid for the rest of the day in a coffee shop with amazing flavoured hot chocolates and a melty honeycake thing which was devine. We also ran into Gemma and Emma from our Croatia cruise so we had a drink with them at a bar. It was a really nice, chilled, couple of days which we needed after our hectic week before.

... the trip in a compartment with a Slovenian man. He asked us, in very broken English, where we were from. we replied, "America." He then asked, "where is that?" Annie and I were baffled. That is definitely a first. But after talking with him more, he then realized that America is where Chicago is, and proceeded to ask us about racial crimes in the city of Chicago. He was an interesting character. Lujbljana is a lovely city with ...

... skinned, stuffed with garlic and onion....mmmmmm. The following morning we ducked into Ljubljana for a quick look around. It is quite a cool little city, set on a river, with tons of cafes and stylish people cruising around checking each other out. We walked up to the castle, which was not that spectacular, had a quick bite to eat then hit the road for Trieste.