Sept 20: It was so nice to see this city during the day! It was hard to get a feeling of this place last night since it was dark. Ljubljana is very quaint, clean, and non-touristy. We walked to the out skirts of the city to Joze Plecnik’s (Famous Architect) House. It was cool, because this house was decorated exactly as it was the day he died. He had so many projects (models) in his house. He built the library and the triple bridge here in Ljubljana (along with many other sights). We passed the city gardens on the way back to the hotel that supplies the daily market in the city center.
We spent the afternoon at the castle and market. We hiked up to the top of the hill to check out the castle area, but it is currently used for receptions etc. We found many buckeyes (buckeye trees) up on this hill. GO BUCKS! The castle wasn’t very impressive, but it provided a good view of the city. We shopped a bit at the market once we hiked back down the hill. We had dinner at a “Mexican” restaurant, but it wasn’t quite Mexican enough for us. I think we will wait till we get back to California for good Mexican food.
Sept 21: Since Ljubljana took us only one day we decided to take a day trip to Lake Bled. This was quite an amazing place! The lake prohibits motorized boats which helps keep the deep blue color of the water. There are these cool row boats called “pletna” boats that Eric and I took to the little island in the center of the lake. A local said that Slovenia has only one island, and it is in lake Bled (this is funny because Croatia has so many islands off the coast). We had cappuccino in the afternoon before heading to the Vintgar Gorge just outside of the town. We had to take a bus for 15 minutes, and then we walked for another 15 minutes to reach the Gorge. We paid 3 euro to hike the Gorge and it was every bit worth the money! The views were spectacular, and the water was energetically rushing through the small space given. This has been one of our favorite place to hike! There was a wooden path running across and along this gorge. We hiked back into Lake Bled to try its world renown cream cake called kremna rezina. Yummmy! Then it was time to return to Ljubljana to catch our night train later in the evening. First was had dinner at a really great restaurant called Gostilna As Lounge. Eric had a huge sea bass served whole on his plate! It is a good thing that he learned how to fillet his fish earlier in Croatia! It was quickly time to get our train to Munich. Our train was an hour late (sucked) and when it arrived our wagon was not there? We saw another couple who were looking for our same wagon! We finally asked the train worker and he said that our wagon was coming shortly. They do a lot of attaching and detaching train wagons on these night trains, because when we got to Munich our train was 5 times longer than when we boarded!
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