Studenia

Unless Austria turns out to be one big nursery then Slovenia’s capital of Ljubljana has hit the lowest average age on the scale. We stayed in what was a former military prison that had been cleverly redeveloped into a hostel/art gallery. As it happened this turned out to be the most interesting thing about our stay as the student population of the northern ‘arty’ district of Ljubljana have, it appears, total free reign to graffiti everything, dress trees in clothes and lock loads of padlocks onto things, very odd this one, art again I suppose?
The rest of the city was nice enough in a more thoughtful ‘arty’ way and has some nice old buildings and statues around but really with the less developed countries beneath and including Slovenia we were both ready to rejoin the more ‘upmarket’ parts (for now) of Europe and try and find some restaurants that don’t serve pizza and pasta, which isn’t easy as it has taken over big time.

For anyone that’s planning a similar motorcycle tour of the Balkans I’m sure that you’ve noticed one huge omission since Albania which is of course the riding of the much famed Dalmation coast. Well a mixture of being behind schedule and an overdose of ‘wow’ after each coast road bend the last week has pretty much been about the destination and not falling further behind and as result we’ve had to dig deep and cough up for the odd toll road. Yawn.