Pri Mraku Guesthouse Ljubljana

... one day. If anyone has questions (Mom) about the horses I can hopefully answer them. I&#8217;d go on but not everyone is a &#8220;horse person.&#8221; <br><br>The next day we were heading to the train station and we saw something exciting: We were walking down a street and I was holding my camera, jokingly telling Andre I was ready with my camera at a moment&#8217;s notice if we saw anything cool. Literally, about a minute later, we walked by Ljubljana&#8217;s version of ...

July 31<br>The trip from Rovinj to Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, takes about 5 hours and 45 minutes by bus. Once we get there we take a bus to go to our hostel, which is located on the suburbs. We leave our backpacks in the room and go for a walk. It takes 30 minutes by walk to go to the city centre. We'd like to stay in a hostel in the centre but the great majority of them are located in the suburbs, but well, after all 30 minutes is not so much time (we're ...

... of Walter. We gave him a great clean and Hamish threw out loads of stuff. I put photos up and he feels nice and homely now! We went to the attached pool next to the caravan park in the arvo and then late on we hired bikes and rode into town and had some nice beers.<br>Today we have visited some museums and walked up to the castle here. <br>Planning on heading to Croatia tomorrow. Has started to rain again now so am looking forward to having some constant sunshine...

... too small. Everything's clean. And the economy seems tourist driven...so every location is bend-over-backwards welcoming. Adding to this, it's no trouble to get by with English and things are very reasonably priced.<br><br>The hostel was 13 for a dorm (first night) and 25 for a private (second night) that overlooked the water. Food (the going fare being sandwiches) is 5ish for breakfast, 8ish for lunch and 10-12 for ...

... time later in normal clothes. Don't know where the dog went. A group of Italians came in - maybe 30 of them - and ordered cocktails and coffees which kept the single waitress busy for a while. While she wasn't looking a group of three men who had been sitting at a table for some time and had consumed at least two drinks each - martinis - snuck out without paying. When the waitress realised she tore out after them but they had gone. She was in a foul mood after that. Around 11.30 we ...

... her we met there and after some short sightseeing tour we went to a pub to get a beer. Once again I had my opinions about the place changed when talking to a local (even though she was not originally from Slovenia she'd been living there for some years already). It's amazing how enriching it's to meet someone who lives in the place you are visiting. They always have different views of things compared to tourists you meet on the hostels. Day 23 As Yahoo! weather ...

... loved traveling with American tourists because they were much "happier" travelers than the more dour Romanians. In these and other ways, travelers cope with the tension of the inevitable glitches with levity - getting a bit "punchy" but staying loose at the same time among caring family (fellow travelers become as intimate as family in many ways, but not intimate enough that you not quite likely to let yourself completely lose your composure in a fit of pique ...

... to pay to climb the tower, we found a small gallery showing some of the work done to the castle. In 1899 a Ljubljana nobleman put forward the idea of building a funicular railway from the city to the castle, which was finally realised in the late 20th century. A photo exhibition was on display, showing copies of the original letters and photos of workmen digging holes and helicopters lowering steel beams onto the hillside. It was as if the exhibition was trying ...

According to my original plan my next stop should have been somewhere up in Austria but the thought of spending the last part of my trip wandering through museums with hordes of tourists just didn't appeal to me so I decided that I would spend some time going through central Europe. Stop number one is ljubljana which is the capital of Slovenia and only has around 280000 people living here, so is relatively small by world standards. This place sought of reminds me of ...

... thought I didn't try very hard!). I can't wait to go back one day. It thunderstormed on our arrival in Ljubljana. An incredible downpour which emptied the streets and washed the city clean. Over the next two days, three people personally apologised for the storm. "It is very unusual for this time of year," they said. It was if they were embarassed that our welcoming was so unpleasant. Slovenians want you to like their country. They will gladly tell you about the ...