Day 5
Padua, Italy to Ljubljana, Slovenia -- 270km
The day started as a normal day, breakfast at the hotel then get the car and hit the road. I wanted to arrive early in Ljubljana as it was the first really different country for me.
The road was near Venice but this was not the time to go there so access the highway and... stop! Some accident somewhere and the police shut the highway so we had to get out of it. Now what? The GPS kept saying something like ‘go back to the highway’ so I turned it off and as I had a Europe paper map I figured out a different way. Just go north and then on to a different highway going east. Only the scale of the map didn’t allow me to see there was no connection between the two highways...
Lots of time and money in toll and gas to go till the end of the highway up in the Alpes, turn back without finding the way. But finaly I turned on the GPS (I'm a man, I don't ask for directions!) and it recalculated the route so we finaly got the correct road to Slovenia. My wife told me that if we went to see Venice as she wanted it would have been a much better spent time...
It was amazing to try to read the city names in the road signs and not be able to because of the different language. No more problems till Ljubljana and driving there was easy. We checked in in a penzion (kind of hostal) as I couldn't find any good price hotels there and off we went see the town.
It’s a beautiful town, lots of people out enjoying the good weather, nice restaurants, good walking areas by the river with many bridges, a castle on top of a hill.
To go up to the castle we took the funicular. It was a good way of having a general view of the city.
We had dinner in a restaurant specialized in fish and as the weather was good we got a table outside. So far we were lucky, rain only on the road not on cities so we could appreciate the sightseeings. Lots of people enjoying the good weather here in Ljubljana.
It was good to use the same currency, euro, also here in Slovenia. And once again to verify that English is the de facto standard international language.
This night my CR-V stayed in the street because there was no garage near by. As it was a calm street I hoped for the best and nothing went wrong. Till the end of the trip there were no more garages, only parking areas.
Padua, Italy to Ljubljana, Slovenia -- 270km
The day started as a normal day, breakfast at the hotel then get the car and hit the road. I wanted to arrive early in Ljubljana as it was the first really different country for me.
The road was near Venice but this was not the time to go there so access the highway and... stop! Some accident somewhere and the police shut the highway so we had to get out of it. Now what? The GPS kept saying something like ‘go back to the highway’ so I turned it off and as I had a Europe paper map I figured out a different way. Just go north and then on to a different highway going east. Only the scale of the map didn’t allow me to see there was no connection between the two highways...
Lots of time and money in toll and gas to go till the end of the highway up in the Alpes, turn back without finding the way. But finaly I turned on the GPS (I'm a man, I don't ask for directions!) and it recalculated the route so we finaly got the correct road to Slovenia. My wife told me that if we went to see Venice as she wanted it would have been a much better spent time...
It was amazing to try to read the city names in the road signs and not be able to because of the different language. No more problems till Ljubljana and driving there was easy. We checked in in a penzion (kind of hostal) as I couldn't find any good price hotels there and off we went see the town.
It’s a beautiful town, lots of people out enjoying the good weather, nice restaurants, good walking areas by the river with many bridges, a castle on top of a hill.
 |
| Castle entrance from the funicular |
 |
| Interior area of the castle |
It was good to use the same currency, euro, also here in Slovenia. And once again to verify that English is the de facto standard international language.
 |
| Two separate beds... |
This night my CR-V stayed in the street because there was no garage near by. As it was a calm street I hoped for the best and nothing went wrong. Till the end of the trip there were no more garages, only parking areas.
No comments:
Post a Comment