East-Eurotrip

I was two days in postojna, a small village with nice people. People come here for two main reasons (I mean if they don't live here) - seeing the castle, and seeing the caves.

The castle here (called Predjamski Grad) is build in the fucking middle of the cliff! It's amazing! There is also a story about it in the 15th century, when this guy called Erazam used it to escape from the German Emperor at that time. The germans sieged the castle, but he used tunnels in the cliff itself to get in and out of the castle to get food, and he would throw all sorts of yummy food on them to tease them. He was eventually betraid by a servant, who marked with chalk the location of the toilet, and when Erazam went there he signaled the germans who fired on the castle and killed Erazam.








Why there are tunnels in the rocks you ask? well, all this area is Karst area, actually the first one explored, and the named karst comes from the name of this area (Kras). There are a quite a few karst caves here, but the two largest ones are the Postojna Cave, which is somesort of a disneyworld, because they installed electric train there to travel around the cave, so it's nice but doesn't look authentic.

The second one, called Skocjan cave, is amazing! It's much more authentic, you walk there and it's a huje cave the river carved in the rock, and then after some time you get to a huje 100 meters high gorje with a river flowing on the bottom! It's really unbelievable.
It's not allowed to take pictures in the caves, and I tried a few in the Postojna Cave, but the lighting is not good, and I didn't want to use flash, so there are a few pictures on the kodakgallery site, but they're not so good. I put here a picture I found on the internet of the Skocjan cave.







I met here this cool guy called Zonz. He's like the slovenian twin of Yaniv Liviathan (for those of you who know him. I think nobody who knows him actually reads this blog...). He works at the reception of the hostel I was sleeping in. He offered to take me to some place nearby to learn how to ride horses (I didn't do it in Bled - the lady in charge there of the stables had to go to the dentist). Here also I didn't get a chance to do it, because on just that day they had a show of the children training there, and so all the instructors were busy. Instead, we went around the small village there, visited an artist friend of him with a very cool studio apartment she makes herself, then went to his mother house. I also joint him and his friends for beers one night, it's a group of the slovenian version of 371, computer people with same type of odd arguments...
Also, you remember I told you about the good beer I had in Ljubljana, called Union? apparently, Union in a gay beer. well, not really, it's considered ZFONBONI Ljubljana beer, where all the real men drink Lasko. Hmmm, I still think Union tastes better, but then we always knew I'm a KUSIT.

It seems Slovenia and Israel have a lot in common, but it's interesting to observe the little differences... Food here is much cheaper (half price), they seem to really like eating pizza & ice-cream, drinking coffee (not really good one, so far), maybe also a bit local food, and that's about it...