Monday, August 23, 2010

Slovenia Sightseeing

We got the bus to Ljubliana which took a couple of hours, for which I snoozed most of it so it was great when we got there. As soon as you get into Ljubliana you can see the castle situated on top of massive whacking great hill, so chose this as our first point of call. The castle had an awesome viewing tower, which gave panoramic views over Ljubliana so got a few snaps up there. We had also got a ticket which gave us entry to a virtual tour of the city and to a museum. We managed to pass ourselves off as students so saved ourselves 4 Euro, bonus.
The rest of the day was spent exploring the town and having a general wander around the sights. We wanted some good Slovenian food for dinner so went on the hunt after a quick nap in the evening. The place we ended up at served an amazing goulash dish and had a great atmosphere as there was an acoustic band doing there stuff right outside.
We were joined for dinner by some lovely french girls, who were struggling to find a place to sit as all the tables were taken and it would have been rude not to offer. It was one of the girls birthday so they had come out for a nice meal and music and I'm sure our company topped it off. After we had finished our food we went along to a bar on the river, which was pretty quiet but then it was a Sunday night. We then got talking to the waiter and his mate and ended up staying out for a few beers until hunger struck and grabbed a taxi with them to get a horse burger, which came highly recommended - sorry horse lovers.
I bedazzled the locals with some magic and they paid for our beers, taxi and burger - they wouldn't accept a cent! The horse burger was bloody huge, about the size of my face and it was jam packed with salad, ketchup and cheese which oozed out of the sides when trying to tackle it. That taste of horse was still in my mouth the morning after, lovely.