Lovely Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Our entry point to Slovenia was Ljubljana. This is an incredibly enchanting city that I had never heard of before we started researching this trip and certainly didn't know how to pronounce. What we discovered is that the 'j' is pronounced as a 'y' in Slovenian so Ljubljana is pronounced 'lee-you-blee-ya-na" (often shortened to 'loo-blee-ah-na' with locals).

We spent two days in Ljubljana which, as lovely as it is, was enough to experience the fairytale like Old City and enjoy some of the amazing parks and restaurants outside of the tourist areas. For serious, this place reminds me of Arendelle from Frozen!

"Artificial rain" in the Center Square - in the summer months the city government has water fall from a sprinkler system suspended above the town square.

"Triple Bridge" - there was once a single bridge, but when the population swelled and the bridge could no longer support all the foot traffic the architect decided to build two more bridges along side the original rather than destroy and build.

We arrived early in the morning and our AirBnb was not ready yet so we wandered around the old town for a while, but soon got tired - we were working on very little sleep from the riggors of an overnight bus. So when we stumbled across an escape room, we figured it would be a relaxing way to kill some time before we could check in. Needless to say our brains were fried and we did not do very well. We took nearly all 60 minutes to complete the two rooms of puzzles and only after A LOT of help from the escape room master. It got to the point where I thought he was playing with us since he was giving us so much info. But in he end, we solved it and then stumbled back out into the bright light and heat of Ljubljana. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).