After getting on my early morning train from Budapest (basically hoped it was heading for Slovenia as no signs were on the train and no train people seemed to speak English), we travelled through what was mainly boring farmlands. This was almost to a tee until we hit Slovenia! Gorges formed and we were travelling by the strikingly blue/green, Sava River and it only got better as the sun began to set offering a pinky orange colour pervading over the mountains. Getting into Ljubljana, I headed to Celica Hostel, which is a converted prison and still has rooms that are cells, so effectively your living in the slammer. I got into my room, and almost at once an army of Australians also checked into this 12 bed dorm. Geelong, Adelaide, Perth, Tassie, they kept coming all
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