Blogs from Slovenia, Europe - page 53

Well after an earlz night last night (bed around 830) i was more than refreshed when i got up at 830 this morning haha cleaned up, packed up and headed down to the bus station to see about getting the bus into Ljubljana (lyoob-lyah-nah, j's=y's around here). as luck would have it as i approach the station the bus to the citz pulls up right next to me. 5 bucks for a 45 minute ride and i'm off! arrived at the bus station which is convenientlz located next door to the train station. thez have paz lockers there so i dropped off mz big bag, and went in search of a train ticket to munich for tonight. its so nice to be back in a more western place. donćt get me wrong i did enjoz serbia/bosnia ... read more

(Excerpted from my book Our Summer in Slovenia Amazon.com) Not in my wildest imaginings, no matter how many hallucinogens I might have taken, would the idea of visiting a bee museum have occurred to me. At first, I thought it was a joke. A "sting" operation on gullible tourists. "Oh, you must not miss visiting the National Bee Museum" in Radovljica, a town of about 6,000 only a ten minute drive from Bled, we were told. "oh sure, The bee museum, wouldn't want to miss that" we replied. Well, you narrow-minded, pseudo-sophisticate, jaded world-weary traveler who thinks all that is worth seeing has been seen, sit up, take notice. If you haven't been to the Bee Museum, you just haven't been anywhere. You've miss all the buzz. Period. Actually, the proper name is the Museum of ... read more

First thing was first, I finally learned how to say Ljubljana (lu-ble-yana). We arrived at like 2 AM after a pretty shady night train. The hostel was super nice and we were got our first alcohol free/good sleep in a while. Slovenia was very different from the other places we've been. First, it wasn't a big city like most of our other stops, and it didn't have many of the tourist attractions of others. Frankly, we didn't know what to expect, and while I was thinking Eastern Europe (ie - soviet style, dirty, dark and cold), it was anything but. Our hostel owner told us that if Father Prague and Mother Vienna had a child, it would be Ljubljana. It looked and felt very much like Vienna or Switzerland, very clean and safe. In fact, Slovenia ... read more

A Journey to Trieste (Italy), Zejane (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia) & Lake Bled (Slovenia) Confusion in Trieste We're very excited about our first European trip away and to make it even more special we are trying to locate Nanna Mac's home town - not as easy as it seems considering the town was situated in the former Yugoslavia and left when she was 6 years old. After a short flight to Trieste we head to pick up a hire car. 1st problem - very little english spoken by the lady behind the counter and no Italian on our part made for a very animated session of points & sign language! Finally we collect our keys and Nav Man (have a few maps but are basically relying on the Nav). 2nd problem - While some big hotels are ... read more

We'd heard Ljubljana was a really cool town so we decided to spend a couple nights there and check it out. We stayed in the Metelkova area at the infamous Celica Hostel. This place used to be a Yugoslavian military jail and is now owned by the city and renovated into a really funky looking hostel. There are several former prison cells you can stay in and every room is decorated by different local artists. The only downside to travelling Slovenia was the banking system. Our RBC bank card (containing all of our money) is not accepted anywhere in the country. The bank machines said they worked on the system that our card uses and Royal Bank even recommended places for us to go to but after a full day of searching for cash, we were ... read more