Category Archives: Slovenia

We started off our morning by going to Ljubljana Castle. Ascending up the insanely steep hill we were out of breath with the quick change in altitude when we got to the top. The view although pretty was mainly covered by overgrown tress. Even at the top of the castle the people of Ljubljana still were proudly wearing medieval costumes and had stations were you could fight a night or shoot an arrow. Inside the castle they had an exhibition where they showed the renovations that took place over the castles, as Andrea mentioned, the majority of the castle didn’t look the same as the prior photos. In fact the inside of the castle was very modern and seemed to have been converted for the appeal of tourists. Since there was a very open connect floor plans, gift shops and restaurants win side it.

Heading down the hill we made our way to Tivoli Park. It was huge and we lost a little sidetracked of where the museum we wanted to go to by all the vendors and sorts centres there were. Eventhough online we saw that finding the Museum of Contemporary History it was as if they didn’t want the public to know about it. When we finally made it inside we were literally the only ones there besides just two employees. It was a really nice museum, a lot of the information was just more in detail and comprehensive. Its hard to believe that the country was only founded in 1991! And it still has more history of Vancouver although in the past it was owned by 10 different empires/ countries.

We then went on grab some lunch and dinner for the train. This proved to be a bit challenging since the grocery stores are closed in Sunday, but we were able to manage. After having a rather late lunch we walked around the town a bit more before catching out strain back to Vienna.

This morning was a rather early one, as we had to catch our train to Ljubljana for the night. Woooott woot adding the country of Slovenia to our growing list. Now as you can see from the original itinerary, Ljubljana was never in the list, but throughout our travels we heard wonderful things about it, and were convinced we had to go when we saw a picture of a castle on a rocky cliff with aqua blue water beneath it. It also helps that we have our Eurorail pass essentially allowing us to go anywhere at anytime! We have absolutely no idea what to expect when we get off this six hour train aside from the quick google search we did last night, but I suppose that will be the fun if it.

When we got off the train station it was heavily raining, we grabbed a map and went our way to find where our walk tour was meeting. Waking past the stores we realized that ALL of them were closed! Now at this point we were trying to be optimistic, but the thought that we just went six hours to an abandoned town was in the back of the mind. There wasn’t any holiday that we knew of..Thankfully as we got closer to the main are we found people, and stores open! What a relief :) Our tour guide loved both history and architecture, which made for a perfect combination for us. The only disappointing thing is that by this point it was pouring, we thankfully wore our oh so fashionable plastic ponchos so we weren’t drenched! Ljubljana cultural history is full of legends, one story particular is about the death of the dragon, the dragon has became the town mascot! You can see it everywhere you go, they even have a Dragon Bridge. Our tour took us around Presernoc trg Square, Town Hall (where apparently the mayor takes selfie breaks outside), Central Market, Butchers Bridge, Triple Bridge, Krzanke Summer Theatre and Parliament. Essentially wound the whole city! We also went inside the Francisan Church, what is rather interesting is that each for for the church depicts a different story. For example the side we visited goes through a chronological timeline of Christianity in Ljubljana and is depicted by carvings within the door.

After the tour we grabbed some much needed dinner we walked past a wine festival going on in the main square. We were able to have a glass of local Ljubljanan wine for just a euro! If I had to guess there were about 50 different vendor booths set up. Just a few blocks next to the wine festival there was an outdoor concert playing. Shortly after we needed to make sure we were able to take advantage of the Night of Museums, the one night of the year where all the museums in Ljubljana were open until at least 10pm and all free entry. Otherwise known as the best day ever for Andrea! Four museums late and we decided to call our night of museum hopping a success,