I quite liked Ljubljana, although in a day all you could really do was get oriented and see some of the bigger attractions. Two days would have been too long and a week not enough if you know what I mean. The weather’s been unsettled and stormy which meant the view from the medieval castle at the top of the hill to the surrounding plains was really dramatic, if a bit hazy but you could see how green the surrounds of the city are. There’s a market which runs every day in one of the town squares in which small farmers from that green surround bring their produce.
They’re making a huge effort to redo the old part of town, with new footbridges across the river, street trees and paving so the whole place seemed really fresh.
A free walking tour runs a couple of times a day so I hitched onto that – as well as talking about the main sights, she guide explained how the recent history including collapse of communism and the civil war had affected Slovenians, which was interesting to hear from a local.
Apart from that I spent the rest of my day there wandering until settling on a plate of cevapcic and pivo (beer) from a local bistro. What can I say, the beer was excellent. The cevapcic weren’t a patch on Romanian mititae, but maybe I’m biased!