Our early morning call woke us at 4.20 am and we quickly showered and packed the last few items in our cases with a view to being outside ready for our 5.30 transfer that the Ljubljana representative had told us to expect. The room phone rang at 5 am and when I picked it up [...]
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10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 10th 2015
After breakfast, which was even more chaotic than it had been the previous two mornings, we set off towards the Museum of Contemporary History. On the way we stopped off at one of the bookshops that we had visited the previous day so that I could buy a book about the Crusades and Crusader Knights [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 9th 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Ten
After breakfast we visited St Nicholas’ Cathedral and the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation. Both were decorated in a similar style inside. After these visits we went to look inside the Galerija Emporium department store to look at the Art Deco features of the building. There was not much to be seen on the inside [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 7th 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Nine
After such an early start the previous day we had a lie-in to recover. It was fairly chaotic when we arrived for breakfast due to the volume of people. The breakfast itself was a standard chain hotel continental breakfast.
After breakfast we took the funicular to Ljubljana Castle where we spent the whole day. On arrival [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Oct 6th 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Eight
We were the first to arrive for breakfast at 6.30 which we enjoyed sitting outside in early morning warmth before our 7.25 transfer to Ljubljana. After breakfast we collected our bags from the room and went to check out of the hotel. As we did so Damjan arrived early and we were whisked away immediately [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 5th 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Seven
Today was our second trip on a guided tour with Damjan our resort rep. When the minibus arrived to pick us up we found that in addition to resort rep and tour guide Damjan was also our driver for the day. On our journey to Postojna Cave Damjan took us on a scenic detour through [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 3rd 2015
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Piran & Ljubljana – Day Six
We had an early breakfast sitting outside, which on this occasion wasn’t interrupted by rain. We had booked on an organised tour for the day, so after breakfast we strolled through the back streets to the bus station to pick up the minibus. Our first port of call was Trieste across the border in Italy. [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 2nd 2015
