There was one more morning to spend in Ljubljana and so after breakfast and check out from the Hotel Park we repeated some of our earlier sight seeing through the city. First of all we walked through the market, which was especially busy and vibrant this morning on account of it being Saturday I guessed The stalls were colourful and exciting and the vendors were enjoying brisk trade as the market heaved with hectic activity.
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On the second day in Ljubljana we explored the city on foot, visited the castle, looked for the dragons and crossed all three of the famous bridges.
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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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December is a time for Christmas Markets. In 2007 I was in Ljubljana in Slovenia…
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The weather was still dry when we left Škofja Loka and returned to Ljubljana on the worn out old bus and back in the city we wandered down the left bank of the river and took in some of the sights that we had missed the night before.
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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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Actually the Hotel Park wasn’t so bad after all and we had a comfortable and undisturbed night’s sleep, well at least until quite early morning when the excitable children started to run about the corridors and bang the doors as loud as they could as they went up and down the stairs to the breakfast room.
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