Long Weekend in Slovenia in Short

Because I've got a lot to do and no time for flowery descriptions, I'm throwing another list at you. I wanted to let my pictures tell the story, but my computer doesn't want me to, so without further ado...

This shot was taken by Amber on our nine hour train ride from Budapest to Ljubljana. I passed the time alternating between "A Clockwork Orange," listening to my music, reading about Slovenia and the popularity of its horse burgers, and entertaining the two Hungarians next to us who enjoyed giggling over our trials and tribulations dealing with Hungarian ticket officers.

Our (Amber, Ray, and myself) Slovenia was...

1) friendly folk everywhere you looked,

2) market day in Ljubljana with girls on accordion providing the soundtrack,

3) styrofoam rocks "falling" into a town square accompanied by much more random art,

4) "creek culture", a more local atmosphere where you could find just that peeing with the bathroom door open, and cracking a Union or Lasko on a smallish boat chained to shore,

5) pizzas with gorgonzola cheese,

6) a funicular ride up to Ljubljana's modern castle,

7) a few attempts to swing on a swing hanging from a tree outside the castle,

8) a few more attempts to rent bikes around one of Europe's most bike friendly cities and not being able to,

9) not being able to find plastic Cola Light bottles and Slovenes giving us looks when we asked for a Coke Light to go in a glass bottle,

10) eating pizza on a row boat in the middle of Lake Bled,

11) bus rides, bus rides, and more bus rides,

12) the Postajna Caves and its little "rollercoaster" inside,

13) walks around Ljubljana,

14) sitting in the park chatting,

15) finally biking around Lake Bled,

16) getting sunburned knees,

17) wanting to try horse burgers but then never doing it,

18) having a long dinner and waiting for our 2am train at a bar where we took advantage of the jukebox,

19) nine hours back to Budapest...

You can get more of a visual from my pictures. Mostly, Slovenia was beautiful and very alpine looking, from its houses, to the mountains, and landscape.

It's somewhere I'd recommend for outdoor lovers and someplace you can visit again.