Love to travel, but it’s the traveling I hate! Yesterday I woke up at a little past four. Not much sleep, the usual charming security checks and waiting in line to squeeze into a small city hopper jet and as usual I always end up next to the eccentrics – must be Murphy’s law of airline seating. An all to brief stop in Vienna – my travel agent must be a huge optimist but I managed to make the connection by barging through the passport queue and the security line.
And all of a sudden I am in Ljubljana. Travel is funny like that. Wake up in Sweden and in Slovenia before lunch.
By taking the afternoon off (conference begins tomorrow) its time for sightseeing. Another reason for taking the afternoon off is the lack of wifi. Anyway, the city is really charming with lots of cobbled streets and old houses from all periods and in all states of repair (or dilapidation – if you are more pessimistic).
The center is old and filled with cafés and restaurants I was told that this is the place to find some old antique or maybe some art but what I have seen is reasonably generic and rather pricey. The only really original artwork I have seen is the masses of graffiti on the walls and most of that is pretty generic stuff.
Lots of photography but no souvenir as yet. I have managed to try the local coffee and the local beer (Lasko) and I am happy to report that the Slovenians take these seriously. For some odd reason I ended up eating Mexican food so I cannot comment on their cooking.
The conference begins tomorrow and I am hoping that they have wifi so that I can post this. So if you have read this they must have had…