[LJUBLJANA] - kako jo vidijo drugi/How others see it

[MBM]

A se meni samo zdi al je ta novinar res zamenjal bled za Slovensko obalo?

[zia the cashew]

no ja mogoče se je pa samo fino izrazu ker to res je coast ane...in njemu v prid lahko rečemo da bi lahko še huj napisu...seaside

[muravidék]

Slovenija se predstavlja v reviji National Geographic Traveler

Ljubljana - Slovenija se s turistično ponudbo predstavlja v majsko-junijsko številki revije National Geographic Traveler, ki je bila izdana v 850.000 izvodih, od tega jih 738.907 prejmejo v ZDA.



Ena ključnih predstavitev Slovenije na čezoceanskih trgih

Slovenija se v najbolj brani reviji s turistično vsebino predstavlja v posebni prilogi. Partnerja v projektu predstavitve 16-stranske priloge z uredniškimi prispevki s fotografijami sta poleg Slovenske turistične organizacije (STO) še urad vlade za komuniciranje ter ministrstvo za okolje in prostor.



Izid številke sovpada z obiskom ameriškega predsednika Busha v Sloveniji

"Gre za zgodbo, ki se je začela že pred približno enim letom," je povedal direktor urada vlade za komuniciranje Anže Logar. V času priprav predsedovanja Slovenije EU so skupaj s STO iskali različne priložnosti za promocije Slovenije tako v EU kot ZDA. V promociji čez lužo so se odločili za "mehko" promocijo, prek turizma. "V tem pogledu je National Geographic Traveler ponujal najboljšo možno izbiro," je dejal in dodal, da je izid številke sovpada ravno z obiskom ameriškega predsednika Georgea Busha v Sloveniji.



To je vrh zgodbe o sodelovanju z National Geographicom in National Geographic Travelerjem, ni pa njen zaključek, je dejal direktor STO Dimitrij Piciga in dodal, da bo v juliju objavljen še oglas kot priklic dogodkov v New Yorku, ki bosta spremljala omenjeni prispevek v National Geographic Traveler.



Skrajšana predstavitev v evropski avgustovski številki revije National Geographic Magazin

V evropski avgustovski številki revije National Geographic Magazin s 534.000 naročniki bo izšla skrajšana predstavitev Slovenije na petih straneh. V novembrsko-decembrski številki NGT bo predvidoma izšel še en krajši prispevek o Sloveniji ter celostranski oglas. Pred izidom majsko-junijske številke National Geographic Travelerja je bila v predhodnih številkah objavljena napoved izida omenjenega prispevka o Sloveniji in spremljevalnih dogodkov ob predstavitvi Slovenije v National Geographic Traveler.



"Do osem odstotkov nočitev ustvarijo prekomorski trgi"

"Sedem do osem odstotkov nočitev v Sloveniji ustvarijo prekomorski trgi. ZDA je po lanski rasti iz leta 2006 na 27 odstotkov z lansko petodstotno rastjo že na 11. mestu po prenočitvah," je dejal Piciga in dodal, da so to gostje višjega ali najvišjega cenovnega razreda, ki povprašujejo po produktih, ki jih Slovenija lahko ponuja. "To so gostje, ki so pripravljeni plačati več za t.i. prosto oblikovan produkt, za naraven produkt in pripravljeni so plačati od 15 do 50 odstotkov, odvisno od segmenta, več," je povedal Piciga.



Dva posebna glasbena dogodka, ki bosta potekala 30. in 31. maja

V okviru promocije Slovenije v ZDA bodo v sodelovanju z National Geographic Travelerjem pripravili dva posebna glasbena dogodka - predstavitev sodobne in izvirne slovenske glasbene ustvarjalnosti ter slovenske kulinarike in vin, ki bosta potekala 30. in 31. maja. Prvi bo v legendarnem Joe's Pubu, ki sprejme okoli 200 obiskovalcev. Drugi večer bo v Town Hallu, ki sprejme do 1500 udeležencev; pred tem bo za 300 obiskovalcev in bralcev revije National Geographic Traveler, ki so prvi kupili vstopnice za ta večer potekala tudi predstavitev slovenske kulinarike in vin.



Poleg teh dogodkov STO pripravlja še predstavitvi za strokovno javnost; 30. maja bo v Millennium Broadwy Hotelu potekala delavnica, na kateri bo sodelovalo okoli 35 agencij s področja New Yorka, in novinarska konferenca, je še dejal Piciga.



V organizaciji diplomatskih predstavništev Slovenije v ZDA bo 4. junija na slovenskem veleposlaništvu v Washingtonu slovesna večerja za 80 do 100 povabljenih, od 9. do 14. junija bo v Lincoln Center Plaza predstavitev sodobne scenske umetnosti in od 16. do 22. junija retrospektiva izbranih slovenskih filmov, od 24. do 29. septembra pa bo v The Bowery Poetry Clubu predstavitev izbrane slovenske poezije.

http://www.siol.net/Slovenija/Zanimi..._Traveler.aspx

[Verso]

Zanimiva reportaža nekega Poljaka, ki je v Ljubljani preživel 5 mesecev - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=630375

[LoKeY]

Nova spletna stran o Ljubljani za turiste
Personalizirano iskanje

Samo Petančič, sre, 02.07.2008 14:09


Ljubljana spletna stran


Ljubljana - Zavod za turizem Ljubljana je predstavil novo spletno stran. Na www.visitljubljana.si si je mogoče ogledati turistično ponudbo glavnega mesta in 23 okoliških občin, obiskovalcu pa v petih jezikih omogoča samostojno organiziranje obiska želenih turističnih in kulturnih prireditev.

Predstavljeni projekt ponuja dostop do vsebin, namenjenih meščanom in obiskovalcem Ljubljane, organizatorjem potovanj, poslovnih in drugih srečanj. Obiskovalci se lahko seznanijo s splošnimi in turističnimi informacijami, imenikom turistične ponudbe, nastanitvenimi objekti, ogledi in izleti ter s koledarjem prireditev. Veliko je gradiva za novinarje, ki potrebujejo turistične podatke o Ljubljani, ter organizatorje srečanj. Na razpolago sta turistični zemljevid in virtualni vodnik, ki omogočata shranjevanje izbranih vsebin v svoj uporabniški račun. Ta zagotavlja personalizacijo iskanja, saj si ''zapomni'' izbrane lokacije in ustvari neke vrste ''nakupovalno košarico''turističnih znamenitosti, ki zanimajo posameznega uporabnika, tako da si sam organizira obisk.

Na spletni strani je mogoče rezervirati sobe v hotelih in kupiti turistično kartico Ljubljane, v načrtu imajo prodajo vstopnic za prireditve, rezervacije vseh vrst nastanitev, naročila ogledov mesta in izletov v okolico. Geografski projekt vključuje 23 občin in sega na severu od Škofje Loke, Kamnika in Krvavca do Grosupljega in Ivančne Gorice na jugu, njegovi avtorji pa poudarjajo, da bodo povabili tudi druge kraje z zanimivo turistično ponudbo.

Za dokončanje projekta, ki sta ga financirala ljubljansko turistično gospodarstvo in Zavod za turizem Ljubljana, so potrebovali leto dni, stal je 152.491 evrov. Nekaj denarja je prispeval Evropski sklad za regionalni razvoj.



Iz tiskane izdaje Dela.
http://www.delo.si/clanek/63071

[muravidék]

EDIT: ne paše v to temo v celoti, ampak v polovici pa

Bled na prvi strani yahoo-ja med "Luxurious Lakeside Resorts"
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-interests-...IwMDA4LTgtMg--
http://www.forbestraveler.com/resort...hisSpeed=25000

[_Sebenik_]

Spodnji članek ne govori o Ljubljani in ni edini v tej temi. Mogoče bi veljalo spremenit naslov v Slovenija - kako jo vidijo drugi.
O slovencih in olimpijskih igrah:

Through eyeballs bloodshot from hours of trivial long division, the world's lonely and frivolous Medals Per Capita scholars will look at you and share with you an ancient Medals Per Capita adage:

Fear Slovenia.

Oh, Slovenia will bring along that dauntingly low population of 2,007,711. Oh, Slovenia will get some medals. And oh yeah, Slovenians have a demonstrable sturdiness.

Through history, they've come under the rule of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Duchy of Carantania, the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Germans and Italians during World War II and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

You think they can't handle the hammer throw?

Now, as a pursuit, the hammer throw can seem alien, inscrutable and marginal. It can make you wonder just how many dangerous things they're going to let people throw for medals in the Olympics.

But on Sunday night in Beijing, the hammer throw turned monumentally, epically, phantasmagorically pivotal when Primoz Kozmus won it and lifted Slovenia to No. 1 on the most vital, cogent, counter-snobbish Olympic ranking, Medals Per Capita.

It brought the first track-or-field gold medal ever to the gorgeous little kumquat of a nation next to Italy on the Adriatic. It gave Slovenia four medals for 2,007,711 people, or one for every 501,927 Slovenians. It gave Slovenia a noticeable array of medals thus far -- one judo, one swimming, one shooting, one field.

And it finally dislodged the mighty Armenians from the summit.

/Cel članek/

[matejkos]

nevem a bi spadalo tole sm al v gostilno,

http://www.rtvslo.si/tureavanture/mo...nu=1&c_id=2039

double posting

[mckfmn]

Originally Posted by Verso

Zanimiva reportaža nekega Poljaka, ki je v Ljubljani preživel 5 mesecev - http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=630375

Hehe it's mine How did you manage to find it? Were you able to understand anything?

My reportaža is pretty enthusiastic about Lju and Slovenia in general. The same with reader's comments: some of them have already visited Ljubljana, others had no clue about it (as Slovenia isn't widely know among Poljaki ) . But they all share my positive feelings.

What I regret a bit is that I havn't get to know too much locals (except my landlord). But due to my 5-month experience I consider Slovenians extremely nice and helpful. During my stay I hadn't come across to any unplesent behaviour.

So, hope to visit you once again. Cheers

PS. Do you know if Ljubljana quarter of Krakovo has something to do with polish city of Krakow? It seems nobody among Ljubljana citizens know anything about it. I asked a couple of them.

[LoKeY]

Glad u enjoyed Slovenia

hope this is of any help:

Krakovo is probably Ljubljana's oldest suburb. First mentioned in 1473, it was originally a fishing village named after a marsh plant called "krak". The greater Krakovo area is the site of numerous prehistoric and Roman remains. Among the vegetable gardens and suburban houses in the Krakovska ulica street there is a small chapel with a copy of the Early Gothic relief of the Madonna of Krakovo (Krakovska Marija) which used to surmount the main entrance to the Križanke Church. The relief was carved in the 1360s and is probably a work by the same master carver as the famous Madonna of Solčava (Marija v Solčavi)...

http://www.ljubljana.si/en/sights/ou...entre/krakovo/

[mckfmn]

Thanks So maybe Krakow takes after Krakovo then

[Verso]

Originally Posted by mckfmn

Hehe it's mine How did you manage to find it?

Hi, Poljak. Hehe, I'm everywhere.

Originally Posted by mckfmn

Were you able to understand anything?

I understood some things, and what I didn't understand, I put into Google Translate.

Originally Posted by mckfmn

My reportaža is pretty enthusiastic about Lju and Slovenia in general.

I noticed that, yes. What I like most, is you not only took pics of the city-centre, but much more, also suburbs. Anyway, I liked your report very much and I'm glad you liked it here.

[mckfmn]

If you live in Nove Jarse and travel to the centre on bike, you have to get to know the district you pass by, whether you like or no But I thing explore cities is also a sort of hobby to me. Although, there's a lot of photos I hadn't taken, cause I had always a loooot of time, and now I regret...

The last day before I definitely left Ljubljana in march 2007 was kind of horror cause I decided to take pictures of all the Plecnik's stuff around the city. I simply made a decision to choose Plecnik for my essays's topic here in Poland and realized there's no enough photos on my hard drive to complete it... I think the church on Siska was the only major object of Plecnik I haven't seen that day

Na zdravie / zdrowie

[Fracek]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/fa...orse-show.html

Slovenia: A truly majestic horse show
The Queen and Prince Philip are due to take in a long-established stud farm in Slovenia next week, an attraction already enjoyed by Esther Selsdon and her family.

By Esther Selsdon
Last Updated: 3:25PM BST 17 Oct 2008

When the Queen and Prince Philip pay their inaugural visit to Slovenia next week they should feel instantly at home. They will find themselves in a tiny, mostly rural country that looks rather like their eldest son's Welsh fiefdom but with better weather, less rugby and bigger mountains.

They will be comforted by the historical connection with one of Europe's greatest royal families (Slovenia was ruled continuously by the Habsburgs from the 14th century until 1918). They will probably appreciate, too, that, in 2004, Slovenia became the first of the former Yugoslav republics to join the European Union.

What they might like above all, however, is the fact that this enchanting country is the home of one of the most graceful horses in the world - the white Lipica stallion.The Queen's hosts have taken her love of all things equestrian into full consideration and – after a quick official reception in Ljubljana, Slovenia's bijou capital – she will be taken straight to the most famous stud farm in the world.

The Karst region where the Lipica (pronounced "Lipizza") is bred is full of gorgeous medieval villages and rambling vineyards. Its chalky terrain is perfect for cave formations (much favoured by the Yugoslav partisans in the Second World War) – and for the breeding of performing horses.

Charles II, the Archduke of Austria, decided to found a stud farm here in 1580 and promptly dispatched emissaries to Spain to bring back six of the most agile stallions in the world. Breeding of these six – originally Arab – studs soon began in earnest and it was Lipica stallions that performed at the new Spanish Riding School in Vienna in 1735. They were an instant hit.

Despite setbacks (the Napoleonic wars, an earthquake, sequestration by German troops in 1943), the stud farm grew and the fame of the horses spread far and wide. The American General George S Patton added further to their allure when he staged a dramatic operation to rescue the horses at the end of the last war, an event which subsequently became the subject of a slightly soppy but hugely popular Disney feature called Miracle of the White Stallions (1963).

It is the horses' dazzling whiteness that makes them so highly prized. That said, it was news to me (though it probably won't surprise the Queen) that Lipicas are actually born black or grey and don't turn white until they are four. Superstitiously, both the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and the Lipica stud farm always maintain one black stallion in residence.

Despite all the careful rearing, there are just 6,000 Lipicas in the world. Up close, they really are extremely beautiful. There is little more that a young girl (or indeed an octogenarian monarch) could wish for than a team of perfectly groomed Lipicas performing a form of dressage called "airs above the ground". Training for this takes six years and manoeuvres include the "levade", in which the horse stands at a 40-degree angle on its hind legs; and the "capriole", where it stands on its front legs, leaps into the air and, at the highest point of elevation, flicks out its hinds and then lands on all four hooves simultaneously. There is no other breed of horse able to perform such feats.

The Queen should enjoy watching them all and more during the Lipica Classical Riding School performance, which takes place in an indoor riding hall that was specially constructed by Yugoslavia's towering post-war leader, President Tito. She will probably also witness a few synchronised eights and some dramatic displays of Victorian carriage driving, all performed by riders in tight-fitting jodhpurs and glossy top hats, accompanied by suitably rigorous classical music. The Duke of Edinburgh, a keen carriage driver, should love it.

The Duke will probably also approve of the no-nonsense approach to teaching of Darco, the head coach at Lipica, who gave my nine-year-old daughter her first riding lesson. His English consisted mainly of the repeated instruction "Ker-nee [knee] against the saddle," which was rather dull but totally appropriate.

When her pure-bred but slightly sensitive horse unexpectedly whinnied and pranced, Edie landed backside first on the pristine, riding school sand. Darco had little sympathy.

"Everyone falls off," he said. "Now get back on and remember, ker-nee against the saddle."

Edie smiled grimly and clambered back on, subsequently bathing her wounds in the magnificently Titoist swimming pool of the on-site Maestoso Hotel (where even the grandest of visitors is expected to wear a swimming cap in the water).

We later caught sight of Darco in the village bar, nursing a local beer. He saluted my daughter for her bravery but quickly complimented his horses on their sensitivity.

"This is not a children's circus," he said. "This is art by horses."

And if you liked that ma'am
Here are a few more suggestions for what to see and do in Slovenia:

Lake Bled: Tito’s favourite, a picturesque expanse of water complete with mountain backdrop and island with baroque church. Plus Lake Bohinj with its beautiful clear, green-tinged water and spectacular waterfalls.

Julian Alps: prime skiing, rafting and hiking territory.

Skocjan Caves: one of the largest cave formations in Europe (not for vertigo sufferers).

Wine: produced here since Roman times. The whites are particularly good. Taste them at the cellar of Vasja Cotar and his father, Branko, in the Kras region.

Stanjel: a perfectly preserved medieval hilltop village with original piazza and the late Gothic St Daniel’s church and castle.

Adrenaline adventures: white-water rafting in the lakes and mountain-biking around Karst are very popular. Perhaps not for the royal couple, although it might appeal to their grandchildren.

Lipica basics
Getting there

EasyJet (www.easyjet. com) and Adria Airways (www.adria-airways.com) fly to Ljubljana from Stansted and Gatwick respectively.

Staying there

Hotel Maestoso in Lipica (00 386 5739 1580, www.lipica.org) charges from €60 per night for a double room; this includes breakfast, entry to a riding show and a tour of the stud farm. Riding lessons from €30 per hour. Hotel Klub, the budget alternative, charges from €48 per night for a double.

Further information: Slovenia Tourist Office (020 7222 5400, www.slovenia.info)

[ivojekle]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5d6ce4d8-9...077b07658.html

God smiles on Slovenia

By Jan Morris

Published: October 11 2008 01:20 | Last updated: October 11 2008 01:20

Where am I? From my hotel bedroom before breakfast I can see, against a wooded background, a row of small cottages, some quaintly antique, some concretely contemporary, their terraced gardens thick with miscellaneous foliage, sunflowers and roses and plots of vegetables. Washing hangs on a line; there is an ironing board on a balcony; a housewife spots us and waves; a man next door is busy polishing his already spotless Citroën. Somebody has drawn a tastefully sexy graffito on a wall.

Down the road the town square is plastered with photographs of male and female candidates in next week’s local elections, every one of them, it seems, supernally good-looking. Two hikers with Nordic poles stride into the morning, almost, but not quite, singing a merry hiking song. My hotel offers me 44 television channels in five languages, and a culinary speciality of the house, an old coaching inn that has fed imperial princes in its time, is turnip soup with sausages. After breakfast I can either be, within a couple of hours, swimming on an enchanted coast line, or in the depths of an Alpine forest with bears in it.

Where am I? Why, in Slovenia, the most delightful small country of 21st-century Europe, about which I have nothing in the least disagreeable to report.

When God devised Slovenia, I like to think in my creationist moments, he smiled. The independent Slovene republic has existed only since 1991 – and of all the new states that have emerged in our times, Slovenia is surely the luckiest. It seems to me to be just the right size and shape for human or national happiness – about as big as Wales, with two million people living generally amicably in it, with grand mountains and fertile flatlands, a lovely ancient capital and 30-odd miles of coastline on the Adriatic Sea, just enough for a port and a string of holiday towns.

It is not very rich, but not very poor either. Its neighbours – Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia – are generally well-disposed, give or take a frontier irritation, and it is a member of Europe, of Nato and of the United Nations. Its history is interesting, its Slavic language sounds fascinating – “the day before yesterday” in Slovene is predvčerajšnjim – and it is conveniently equipped for that prerequisite of small nations in our time, upmarket tourism.

Koper is a busy industrialised port, serving not only Slovenia, but the Slav hinterland beyond; the smaller coastal towns, inherited from the Venetian empire of long ago, live by tourism, so that their exquisitely Italianate piazzas and campaniles are invested with car parks and cafés and camp sites. But all sorts of artistic and architectural treasures are there to be found in Koper, and in half an hour you can be away from the razzmatazz, away from the echoes of Italy, and among the simpler allure of Slovenian Slovenia .

This can be exploitative too, mind you. Visitors have flocked to the little lake of Bled, in the north, ever since the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and even then the church-crowned islet in the middle of it was so universal a tourist icon that watercolours of it hung in drawing rooms from Budapest to Vienna. The nearby Julian Alps have their ski centres and chair-lifts, too, and flotillas of coaches convey package tourists to the myriad caves, long since illuminated and supplied with local legends. As for the celebrated stud-farm of Lipice, where the white Lipizzaner horses are bred, horse-lovers from all over Europe flock to stay at the two in-house hotels, learn to ride the Lipizzaners and watch them exercise . But the real delight of the place is to wander around the stables all by yourself, and meet some of those 400 glorious animals muzzle-to-muzzle, so to speak, unharnessed, unprimped and not on show at all.

For even some of the famous sites of Slovenia are restrained in their display. A genuine prodigy, to my mind, is the medieval castle of Predjama, which was for centuries the home of reclusive aristocrats and the lair of princely brigands. It is not remote nowadays, but the winding road up there gives no hint of drama until quite suddenly, beyond its attendant hamlet, there stands the white castle, grim and strange, half in and half out of the rock wall – behind it the gloomy vault of a cavern, below it a sheer cliff pock-marked with holes and tunnels. There is a café, but nothing touristy weakens the experience of Predjama, no glitz; only a sense of strange and cruel suggestion makes you stand there silently, with your coffee cup in your hand, staring at that weird construction in the rock.

Ljubljana, the Slovene capital, with its 300,000 people, is similarly unassertive. Its outskirts are ordinary, and its largely medieval centre seems to me rather like a show town in an architectural exhibition, very pretty, very festive, very nice as though one of these days it might be taken to pieces again and packed off somewhere else. A castle crowns it, with a gigantic national flag flying high, and a little river meanders through its centre, crossed by fanciful bridges.

Everyone in Ljubljana seems to be having a good time. Countless al fresco cafes line the riverbanks, and they are all full and animated. Twenty or thirty small boys were being taught to rollerskate when I was there, and a whole stretch of street was closed off to allow them hilariously to hurl themselves up and down, frequently colliding or collapsing into uncontrollable laughter. Nearby, one of their mothers, herself on skates, was killing time by pushing a baby about in a pram.

The streets of the old city are wide, very clean and extremely prosperous. Music often blares through the central square, where the merriest of the river crossings multiplies itself and becomes the ornamental Triple Bridge; big amiable dogs abound; an immense open-air market sells everything from pomegranates to bath-plugs; a thousand restaurants flourish; the magnificent Renaissance-Classical colonnade which embellishes the city centre turns out to be not Renaissance-Classical at all, but the work of Jose Plecnik (died 1957).

God evidently still smiles on Ljubljana, but then he smiles on all Slovenia. Here are two little cameos of ordinary Slovenian travel, with no sights to see, no rollerskating schoolboys, no fierce eyrie-castles, no Venetian campaniles or Habsburgian beauty spots.

First we go to the upper valley of the Sava Bohinska river, in the lee of the Julian Alps, where white village basks almost within sight of Mount Triglav, the country’s highest peak. It is a very green, wide, semi-Alpine valley, edged with high hills, and the four or five little villages almost run into one another. They are all white-washed and clustered, with deep eaves and higgledy-piggledy lanes, and one has a little church with a fresco of St Christopher on its southern wall.

Every which way stand the tall white houses, with wide gardens full of flowers, and nothing much seems to be happening. The calm is absolute. Here and there we come across a man hosing down his tractor, or a woman with a bag of onions. Cats sit contentedly in the middle of fields. At an unexpectedly suave village restaurant they serve us grilled trout fresh from the river, with Slovenian Tokai wine and bread from the kitchen oven. God smiles, without a doubt, upon the Sava Bohinska valley.

And here, in contrast, we find ourselves lost somewhere east of Kranj. Helplessly we consult our map, hopefully we look for somebody to ask the way, and presently there somehow seems to sidle into our company half a dozen Slovene men and a very talkative Slovene woman. Between us we speak five languages, but we are fluent only in our own, and gradually our discussions descend into farce: “It’s that way, for sure.” “No it’s the other, they haven’t been through Preddvor.” “No, no of course they haven’t, they came the Cerklje way – they should go back the way they came then, they should have gone by Duplice.” “No, no, no, look here, look at the map ... ”

And so, as the map gets more and more crumpled, the arguments louder, the languages ever more incomprehensible, we subside into impotent merriment, shake hands with each other, and, chuckling still, go our various ways. We ourselves are no wiser about our situation, so we leave the car on the grassy verge and go for a drink instead.

God looks down upon that Slovenian scene, too, and now he laughs out loud.

Jan Morris is the author of more than 40 books, including most recently a novel ‘Hav’, published by Faber

[Opasni_1982]

Nekaj o Ljubljani

http://forum.b92.net/index.php?showtopic=16715

[AlbertZ]

Hello

I was in Ljubljana on 10th of August. We made a 960 km-long cycle tour to my Italian friend and we rode across Slovenia and backwards we visited Ljubljana. I really liked the city because I found cycle paths everywhere and I could find a lot of bike shops. I visited the castle, too. It was beautiful but the panorama from the top wasn't. There were high commies everywhere. But it was worth climbin' up with my bike because of the slope.
I found Slovenia very nice, especially the valley of Drava. The peeps' are also very kind. It was funny because once we camped on a riverbank and an old man came and shouted at us. We thought we camped on a wrong place, but later he appeared with a bag of apples.

[Verso]

^ Hi. It's Ljubljana, btw, but I've heard Hungarians can't pronounce more than two consonants in a row, so you're forgiven. Did you stop in any village in the Drava valley, or just drove through them?

[AlbertZ]

You're right about the consonants. We rode through villages, visited no museums or sumthin' like that, if you thought that. We just enjoyed the landscape and the awesome slopes.

[Verso]

^ Cool, I was just asking, cause I know every village there, hehe.