East-Eurotrip

Hello everyone!
Blogging - maybe that way I'll remember all my adventures, and you will be able to update in real-time (relatively).

The trip started on a bad sign. The plane from Israel to Vienna was a bit late, so we had to rush to our connection flight to Ljubljana, but I guess I ran faster than my lagguage, because after we landed everybody left, and only I was left waiting for my lagguage. Eventually I gave up to report it's loss, but good surprise - Vienna already notified on it to Ljubljana, so they said they will bring it in the next flight. So it wasnt lost, just delayed a little bit. They delivered it to my hostel later that day.

I took a bus to the city center to get to my hostel, which was defined in internet booking site as being "near the center". Apparently they new I"m from tel-aviv, because near was tel-aviv walking distance, around 40 mins. or so. Luckily, I didn't have my big&heavy bag to carry...

From then on, it improved. I wondered around Ljubljana, the city is really nice and quaint - a lot of small streets, colored houses, small cafes along the river. There are some nice bridges over the river, the most famous are the three bridges bridge, and the dragon bridge. Went up to the castle (really steep ascent, but still some old guy kept running up&down on it, while I had troubles just walking up). the castle wasnt really interesting, but there was a nice view of the city, and there's a huge forest around it where you can walk a long time. I just took a random path, and got out eventually from a door in the middle of the street! I never would have guessed.

On the afternoon I met this really lovely and nice english girl named Sarah, and we continued together for the rest of the day. We basically just did a random walk around the city, and wandered around Tivoli Park (huge park, that had photos exposition of really beautiful places around the world from some solvenian photographer. game me some ideas on where my next trip will be...)

A bit about the food here - it seems that all that slovenians eat, according to the stores we saw, is alcohol, cafe, ice-cream, pizza and some sandwitches. We tried to find a nice place for dinner to eat "local" food, but ended up eating local mexican food - burritos. We also found that in slovenian they are called torillas, although it is really a different food.
We continued to a local pub called Mackon, with a really cool logo. Local beer is called
Union, and it is quite nice actually.

Now for pictures. It seems that posting here takes forever to upload, so I use my usual kodakgallery place. When I"ll enter new posts, I"ll try also to add new photos there, so keep an eye on it. The link:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=nmb6n2g.bqjqwbjo&x=0&y=ho1efy

Tomorrow morning I"m heading to the north-west, to lake bled. I hope it wouldn"t rain, because here at Ljubljana it already rained a bit yesterday. It seems to me not as much fun swiming and sun-bathing without the sun.