Ljubljana

Ljubljana was our second stopping place, a wonderful city for a long or short visit. It’s compact and walkable, with good views and interesting buildings and bridges. Fine food, good wine, great ice cream. We knew about all that before we came, but good Dixieland too?

And a river runs through it, which the city has used superbly to create graceful and comfortable public spaces. Much of this is the work of Ljubljana’s great 20th-century architect and planner Jože Plečnik, but there are grand baroque churches as well, and fine buildings in the Viennese Secessionist (or, as we know it, Art Nouveau) style.

One thing Ljubljana doesn’t have is a large supply of quiet lodgings at reasonable prices. Having to choose between bare-bones hostels and business-oriented hotels, we took the latter, and were pleased with what we got. The weather was a bit changeable, but it never rained the way it had in Bled, and the quantity of sunshine increased daily. By the last day of our stay, it was clear that summer had arrived.

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