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Background: The Slovene lands were part of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria until 1918 when the Slovenes joined the Serbs and Croats in forming a new multinational state, renamed Yugoslavia in 1929. After World War II, Slovenia became a republic of the renewed Yugoslavia, which though Communist, distanced itself from Moscow's rule. Dissatisfied with the exercise of power by the majority Serbs, the Slovenes succeeded in establishing their independence in 1991 after a short 10-day war. Historical ties to Western Europe, a strong economy, and a stable democracy have assisted in Slovenia's transformation to a modern state. Slovenia acceded to both NATO and the EU in the spring of 2004.

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By Omar19762022
December 29th 2009

Liubliana, ESLOVENIA. Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

The Liubliana dragon.

Tijuana, B.C., a 27 de noviembre del 2008. Saludos. Bueno, finalmente después de 50 y tantos dia de viaje y con 5 kilos menos de peso (revisados con báscula y que todo mundo me lo recuerda cada vez que me saluda desde mi llegada), ya estoy de vuelta por Tijuana despues de un truculento regreso que implicó 2 pernoctadas en Amsterdam y en la Cd. de México, una fila de mas de 3 horas en el Aeropuerto de Amsterdam, una nevada con ropa de verano, un equipaje que llego con un dia de retraso a TJ ... Pero bueno, ya estamos [View Full Entry]

By passenger
August 23rd 2009

Ljubljana Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

Ljubljana

After 30 min of sleep in Annaberg, at 5:00 we headed to Slovenia. I was pretty tired and sleepy and after 300 km there was a drivers change and then I could slumber a bit. When we arrived in Slovenia I was really really sleepy because it was extremely hot. We arrived on the festival ground and I spent the whole day at the festival hanging around and drinking slovenian beer. In the evening I went to pick up the merch and in the meanwhile 3 of 5 guys from the band drank real turkish absinth. When I came back they [View Full Entry]

By Christopher travels
August 20th 2009

Ljubly Ljubljana Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

The Dragon Bridge

I know exactly where I am. Do you know where tiny Slovenia is on a map? The country was a part of Yugoslavia, the most northern region of that ex-country, sandwiched between Austria to the north and Italy to the west. The southern border of Slovenia is now Croatia, and there is a small border with Hungary to the north east. I left Zagreb with one of my hostel room mates who was travelling in the same direction as me this day. We had a real border crossing soon into the two hour train trip, a stamp out of Croatia and [View Full Entry]

By pilnikjezerobota
August 17th 2009

Switching back to "hvala" mode again Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

Hostel

So I am here in Ljubljana in a hostel which used to be a prison. Cool as that is, it wasn't an aesthetic choice, more a practical one as it was the closest budget accomodation to the train station, where I have to get a train from at 6.20am tomorrow morning. However I have heard this place waxed out by plenty of backpackers blogging about Ljubljana on here, so I was hoping to be able to see it. The train journeys here were mostly hell, to be honest with you. I was denied buying any food to bring on to me [View Full Entry]

By 2 BLONDES ON HOLIDAY
August 1st 2009

LJUBLJANA - SAY THAT WITH A MOUTHFULL OF MARBLES Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

WELCOME TO LJUBLJANA

DAY 108 So we are on our way from Split to Ljubljana, Slovenia (Loo be yarna). Francine and Angie thought that they would be really really smart and take the back seat of the bus so that they could stretch out during the night and have a good night's sleep. So we raced to the back seats and were lucky because there were very few people on the bus. Our luck held out until about the 6, 7 stop and then a women and daughter had to sit in the back with us. But people got out a couple a stops [View Full Entry]

By robandsarah
July 12th 2009

Eastern Europe's Hidden Gems Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

Plitvice Lakes National Parks

When you last heard from us we were about to board (yet another) night train to Zagreb, Croatia. Everytime we take a night train we're always hoping that it'll be better than the previous and, that by chance, we might actually get some sleep. But being the cheap backpackers we are, we refuse to pay for a couchette. This leaves us two options: 1. Sitting in our assigned seats crammed in a small cabin with four other strangers or 2. Searching throughout the train for an empty unreserved cabin. And since there is no way of knowing if the seats are [View Full Entry]

By Spartan
July 9th 2009

Our Night in Jail! Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

The outside of our prison!

One last stop in Eastern Europe.... Ljubljana, Slovenia. Yeah, we can´t pronounce it either! We took the scenic train ride in from Croatia and were greeted with our first big rain storm of the trip. It is always nice to get use out of the ponchos we brought! We quickly found our hostel, which happened to be an old prison, converted into a hostel. Interesting concept, but it seemed OK, so we stayed! I guess it makes sense, but we didn´t realize our room would be an actual prison CELL! Yep, there was a heavy barred door and then another thick [View Full Entry]

By Sarah B and Sarah S
June 29th 2009

Small update Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

Anyway, we never updated this in Salzburg, which is where we were before here. We travelled via Salzburg pretty much for the sole reason of going on a Sound of Music tour. We spent about half a day doing this with the most terrifying lady I have met in my life. At 9am she was horrifically bubbly and bouncy, and this started to grate after about five minutes or so. Some of the tour stops were pretty cool (the pavillion had to be done obviously) whilst others were really stretching to find a link with the film (pretty lake). We saw [View Full Entry]

By MooseIsLoose
June 28th 2009

Ljubljana and My Birthday Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

The Czech

Hi all! I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to update, things here have been a whirlwind, and I've had hardly enough time to sleep. On Wednesday, June 17th, Libor and I celebrated the approaching summer by waking up at 5:30 in the morning. Weird, huh? Well, we scadaddled to the Hauptbahnhof, where we purchased our tickets, destination: Ljubljana. For those wondering, you pronounce it Luh-yoo-bluh-yana. It's the capital of Slovenia, that tiny little country with which Austria shares one of its borders. Anyways, we pulled out of Graz at 6:30am, arrived in Maribor at 7:30am, had a half [View Full Entry]

By Rob_n_Lorenza
June 13th 2009

Tone's Name Day Picnic Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana

Happy Tone Day

We took up an invitation from Tone (our CS contact in Ljubljana) to attend a picnic for his name day (i.e. June 13 = Saint Anthony day). So we drove about 70k's from Ljubljana and found our way thanks to GPS to a small village where we stopped and called Tone for more directions. Within a few moments we found ourselves in a field, with views to some mountains and out over the surrounding farm land. We were greeted by Tone, plus a lot of his family and friends. Also, some other CS folks from Chicago. The weather was so perfect [View Full Entry]

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