Slovenia

I'm in Salzburg now but just wanted to make a quick post re: Ljubljana.

I basically spent my time in Ljubljana walking. I walked a total of about 20 miles during my two days in the city, maybe a bit more. My feet are in pain now but I have a lot of ground to cover in Salzburg - no complaints!

The only sight (at least of the sights that I might care to visit) that I hadn't made it to last time I was in Ljubljana was the National Museum of Contemporary History. It tells a sometimes-contradictory story about Slovenian and Yugoslav history but it was well worth the 3.50Euro entry fee.

I met up with a nice American guy who's going to school at Whitman in Walla Walla and we walked through the former-Yugoslav-army-barracks-cum-artists-commune of Metelkova.

That's about the extent of my experience in Slovenia this time. It was pretty, as usual, and it remains about the most comfortable city in Europe for me. I really love it there. I noticed that while Serbia is a country under construction NOTHING seems to have changed since I was in Ljubljana in 2006 - even the construction sites appeared to be the same...

I'll check back in soon with Salzburg thoughts. I'm definitely getting ready to come home but I can't pass up an opportunity to see the last two towns remaining on my itinerary.

Arrived in Ljubljana, Slovenia from Nis, Serbia yesterday but I didn't feel up to making a post regarding the trip. It wasn't that it was particularly eventful but it was an overnight bus so sleep was at a premium and my mind never fully functioned yesterday. I actually did manage to get some sleep on the bus and, because I met up with a couple interesting Brits, I stayed up until almost 2am.

Being back in Ljubljana is nice. It's a very comfortable city that I know very well. It's comparably tiny at only 300,000 people and is very walkable. In the afternoon yesterday I walked from my hostel on the south-west side of the old town far to the north-east to catch a film that I've been wanting to watch. After all was said and done the trip was about 4.2 miles and I nearly traversed the entirety of the town.

Today I'm going to see some other bits of the city that I haven't seen before and probably walk close to 10 miles in the process.