We just got mildly screwed over by our hostel in Vienna. We just got an email to say that the rooms we booked a couple of weeks ago for 13.70 euros, were mistakenly priced, and we will actually be charged 20 euros a night. They told us we could cancel free of charge up to 24 hours ahead, but by this time its a bit too late to find somewhere else, and we wouldn't get our 10% deposit back either, so it wouldn't be worth it - there aren't enough cheap places avaliable. So thats left us a bit bitter, and wondering about the validity of pulling such a move. I think its safe to say this place wont be getting a good review when I get around to doing such things.
So enough of the bitching. We're in Ljubljana now. Which actually is going to require another slight bitch soon, sorry about that. We got here fine, making all the connections - getting to Pula bus stop and on the bus to Rijeka, and then on the train to Ljubljana. We got checked at the border, but nothing like last time. We shared a compartment with a nice slightly older American couple, who were kind of delighted when they heard we were from NZ because they want to travel there (here?). The guy proceeded to pick our brains about the country, from advice on places to go, to what our economy ran on and race relations - it rather tested my knowledge at times.
This morning we went on a walking tour of the city. Crossing Slovenia on the train yesterday it was very pretty, quite like home with lots of forest and greenery. Ljubljana is the same, it has a green belt around it. Its also very small, the guide told us the population here is about 300,000, 25,000 of which are university students. The walking tour, oh god. It was supposed to be a 2 hour walking tour of the city, it took 2 and a half, because our guide like to talk. She asked at one point if she was going into too much detail. And yes, yes she was. It was all stuff that was interesting, but just too much of it, and too many side tracks. So not nearly as good as our walking tour in Budapest. We felt rather free when it finally ended and we could leg it back to the supermarket to pick up a salad each from the supermarket across the river.
Ljubljana could really turn into a trip about food. The cheap and fairly decent salads from the supermarket, the fantastic open food market just across the dragon bridge, with great strawberries and blueberries and raspberries. The good falafel place just around the corner. The burek I have to try.
Tomorrow however we're going to try and get out of Ljbljana and up to Bled, which many people have recommended to us. We should be able to get there on our eurail passes.
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