EEET2012 – Day 19 – Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia. You’d think it’s big right? Well… 220 000 inhabitants. That’s not much. That’s quite little actually… On Friday night, after arriving from Munich and Salzburg we went straight (or as straight as we could: luggage, not knowing the directions and a couple of beers later) to the Dic Hostel where we both fell asleep right away. On Saturday we got up around 9.30A.M. to have breakfast and then go to the city centre for another Free Walking Tour. I don’t know who invented this system, but the guy was a genius. Basically, a guide walks a group of people around the city. After the tour he just puts his hat, a bag or something down and if you think he did a good work, you can pay him whatever you want. This is perfect for people with a little budget and the guide needs to be very entertaining and funny to persue people to pay him more.

The guide told us all about Ljubljana and Slovenian history (I know even know where the name Tito comes from!) and learned us that basically one guy was responsible for the whole development of the infrastructure of this city: Unfortunately I have already forgotten his name. The only thing I remember is that he like pillars. There are tons of them all over the city…

After the guided tour we went to a supermarket and had lunch. At that point it started raining. Not just raining but really raining It rained for about 4hours straight. We had planned to go to the castle, on top of a mountain right next to the centre of the city, but it was just raining too hard. Instead we went to the bus and train station and organized our trip to Pula the next day. As on Monday, the day after that, we had to pick up our girlfriends from the airport there.

We tried to find an activity which could be combined with the trip to Pula but to be honest. The main train station office, the main information office and the main bus station office were all as unknowing as a child when it came to international trips or travels. So after some hesitating we simply booked a bus straight to Pula and stayed there for a night in order to be on time for the girls to arrive.

On the way back to the hostel, it was still raining, we bought a typical Slovenian dish called barvu(orsomethinglikethat), which we didn’t really like to be honest. Back in the hostel I started organizing the next few days in Croatia and although we don’t really know exactly what we’ll do, I have some ideas already which will prove to be helpful in the following days, I hope.

We went to bed and the next day we took the bus from Ljubljana to Pula at 9.30A.M. That’s exactly where I am writing this post now. I am sitting in a small bus, with 29 seets. Toon is on the seat behind me, as a lot of people (the bus wasn’t even half full though) have already left at other stops. We will arrive in Pula in about half an hour and I will try to put this post, just like the Salzburg one, online as fast as possible. Actually, me writing this is quite useless because if you are reading this, it probably means that I found a wifi spot and posted my experiences already. That’s it for Slovenia, it was barely 36 hours, but we had to keep on moving. Next stop: Croatia!

peace out_

Toon&Thibault