Ljubljana, Slovenia

So after our trip to Budapest we were supposed to hop on a bus back to Prague. But since Prague really didn’t impress us that much we decided to take a side journey to Slovenia as a few people from our tour recommended it. So we stayed an extra night in Budapest to organise ourselves and booked train tickets to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. We were under the impression that we had the one train all the way there which was about an 8 hour trip. So we got on this super nice train only to be told that in 3 hours we would have to get off and get on a bus. Right. Following everyone else we hopped on this un air-conditioned bus that just drove for an hour and half through the countryside. I only knew we were still in Hungary because every now and then I would see the Hungarian flag out the front of houses. Finally we stop and got our bags and were moved to a different train. This one was not so fancy, had no air con and we couldn’t really tell if we were getting on the right one. We did however see the ticket man so we figured we were ok. We hoped! We got to be in a carriage just like the ones Harry Potter takes to Hogwarts…this I found a little exciting, except there was no lady coming around with a sweet cart, wee bit disappointed there!! 4ish hours later we arrived in Ljubljana. HOORAY!!

It’s night time, and we have no map and no clue as to how to get to our hostel. Hmmmm Lucky, Lizzie found a random map in a display so we kind of made a mud map off of that. Now the only problem was that we had to carry our backpacks. Yes! This is the first time we’ve really had to carry them further than down the stairs of a hostel and onto a bus. It was awful! I swear, if we ever ACTAULLY backpack, I am buying one of those expensive women ones and only taking 10 items of clothing!! Found the hostel so all was good.

Our day in Ljubljana had us just looking around. There was not too much to see there except a few buildings, a castle on a hill and a canal. But it was pretty and the people were really nice. We actually slept most of it as we were so buggered from the Trek.