Ljubljana

Ljubljana
Originally uploaded by laugelina.

I was excited about getting to know my first eastern europe city, but I soon realized that Ljubljana, as the rest of Slovenia, looked more similar to the type of western old towns I have seen.

Everything in the city goes around the river, and I was lucky enough to find a hostel right upstairs the oldest cafe in town, just by the river.
It turned out to be a very noisy place to spend a night, but I wouldn't complaint about watching the lights in the river from my windows, or being so close to everything.

The city was quite small, I thought to small to be the capital of a country. And it was so extremely peaceful. I was there monday to wednesday morning, walking around the centre, the market place, the hall, and it all seemed like a perpetual sunday... the busiest place I saw were the many cafes around the river. from very early in the morning up to very late in the night.

There were so many bicycles in the city, but the problem with them is that people would ride everywhere including sidewalks so you couldn't just ramble around but walk paying extreme atention.

The ice-creams were so good, just like in Italy, only that I had to spend som time working out the names of the flavours.