Some of our travel journeys are impulse decisions, usually in response to a last minute bargain flight deal, but the trip to Ljubljana was planned well in advance because we were acting upon a recommendation and because it was a destination that sounded interesting and that appealed to us both.
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Tagged Café Promenada, Dragon Bridge, Julian Alps, Life, Ljubljana, Park Hotel, Photography, Travel, World Heritage
The weather was better in Ljubljana and we wandered down the left bank of the river and took in some of the sights that we had missed on our previous visit. We started at the heart of the city, Prešeren Square, with a statue of Slovenia’s greatest romantic poet France Prešeren that looks out over the square and the Triple Bridge.
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Tagged Art Nouveau, Café Promenada, Dragon Bridge, France Prešeren, Julija, Ljubljana, Park Hotel, Plečnik, Prešeren Square, Slovenia
Yugoslavia had been created in 1918 after the First World War by the victorious western allies in the hope of bring some stability to the Balkans but this had been a hopelessly optimistic attempt to impose a solution on a disparate region of Europe who were never going to coexist easily as one single nation.
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Tagged Belgrade, Bosnia Herzegovina, Café Promenada, Croatia, Lake Bled, Ljubljana, Serbia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, Zagreb
We had had some difficulty in finding some suitable accommodation in Ljubljana and had eventually decided upon the Hotel Park which although suspiciously cheap and almost certainly basic sounded as though it would provide us with a good central location for our visit and we committed ourselves to a booking. After we had orientated ourselves and found our bearings we set off on the short walk to our chosen lodgings. After a few hundred metres we turned a corner and there towering above us was an ugly concrete structure and a sign confirming our worst nightmare, this was the Hotel Park; Oh My God!
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Tagged Café Promenada, Easyjet, Julian Alps, Ljubljana, Park Hotel, Slovenia
Have Bag, Will Travel 