Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Oprosti!
Thats Slovenian for "sorry", though I may have spelled it wrongly. Sorry is for my previous post. I was at an internet cafe, and sent an email then ran out of time...
Ljubljana is SO COOL! It is more touristy than Maribor, but it is very beautiful, with lovely big squares and statues and churches and stuff... The symbol of Slovenia is a dragon, and there is a bridge near where we are staying that has the most amazing dragon statues on the piers at either end. There is a castle up on the hill, but it has been restored and the restorations are kind of modern and stupid looking, so when youre there it just feels like your in a square with a cafe. Nice views though.
The dogs of choice in Ljubljana are the black labrador and the bulldog, although the other day we saw this huge dog, as big as a small pony and looked like a spiderhorsedog. A Sporg? It was really weird.
Funny thing: At dinner yesterday, we were sitting at a cafe called Hot-Horse (where everything on the menu is some variant of a burger with a patty made from horse meat; except for the vege burger and the fries... I had the vege burger, the others did not...) when a couple walked past across the street snogging all the way down the narrow footpath. The funny bit was when the girl slipped off the curb mid-pash because she wasnt watching where she was going.
Tonight we have a concert in the most amazing cathedral in the main square of the city, by the river. Tomorrow we sing in the Postojama caves; it takes 15 minutes on a little train to get from the entrance of the caves to the centre, so theyre pretty huge. The orchestra performs there sometimes in a massive subterranean auditorium (I assume its a huge natural cave).
Alrighty, theres a queue for internet. Adijo!
Ljubljana is SO COOL! It is more touristy than Maribor, but it is very beautiful, with lovely big squares and statues and churches and stuff... The symbol of Slovenia is a dragon, and there is a bridge near where we are staying that has the most amazing dragon statues on the piers at either end. There is a castle up on the hill, but it has been restored and the restorations are kind of modern and stupid looking, so when youre there it just feels like your in a square with a cafe. Nice views though.
The dogs of choice in Ljubljana are the black labrador and the bulldog, although the other day we saw this huge dog, as big as a small pony and looked like a spiderhorsedog. A Sporg? It was really weird.
Funny thing: At dinner yesterday, we were sitting at a cafe called Hot-Horse (where everything on the menu is some variant of a burger with a patty made from horse meat; except for the vege burger and the fries... I had the vege burger, the others did not...) when a couple walked past across the street snogging all the way down the narrow footpath. The funny bit was when the girl slipped off the curb mid-pash because she wasnt watching where she was going.
Tonight we have a concert in the most amazing cathedral in the main square of the city, by the river. Tomorrow we sing in the Postojama caves; it takes 15 minutes on a little train to get from the entrance of the caves to the centre, so theyre pretty huge. The orchestra performs there sometimes in a massive subterranean auditorium (I assume its a huge natural cave).
Alrighty, theres a queue for internet. Adijo!
# posted by Doug @ 13:12 
