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,