{"id":906,"date":"2023-07-16T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T11:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/?p=906"},"modified":"2023-07-17T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:55:13","slug":"ljubljana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.mawds.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/07\/16\/ljubljana\/","title":{"rendered":"Ljubljana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had 4 nights planned for Slovenia, arriving Wednesday afternoon. I decided to spend all of them in Ljubljna and take a couple of day trips to Postojna caves<\/a> and to Lake Bled<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was significantly cheaper and quicker to get to Ljubljana from Graz by Flixbus. This was actually OK, but I don’t think I’d want to do a very long journey on it. The views were lovely, and the motorway cut through deep valleys and had several long tunnels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The city itself was lovely, and not somewhere I’d have thought about going without the recommendation of my Hungarian friends. I went to the caves at Postojna on Thursday as the forecast was for rain. This turned out to be (very) true, as the day ended with a huge thunderstorm, with hailstones the size of (small) ice cubes. There were broken tiles on the street the next day. Glad I wasn’t camping for that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday I took a day trip to Lake Bled, which left Saturday to explore the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city is pretty small, and very walkable. The hostel owner had also recommended their city bike hire scheme, which gives unlimited <1 hour hires from docking stations for 1 Euro for a week (or 3 Euro for a year). This worked pretty well, though there were a couple of times the docking station was either all full or all empty, and I did get a couple of bikes where the lights didn’t work. It was easy enough to swap for another bike though. As the hostel was the other side of town from the bus and railway station, these proved very useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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