Day Two – 2.16.2009
We woke up at 730 am and caught a bus to Bohinj, an absolutely beautiful lake
surrounded by mountains and forests. The ground was covered in snow and most of the lake was frozen, enough to walk and slide on. The bus ride itself was quite interesting. We passed through the residential areas of Ljubljana, which are basically just fairly rundown apartment complexes, a sharp contrast from the downtown. Once out in the countryside, we passed by many farms and little farm houses, with unique hay storage racks that appare
ntly are famous. We also passed through tiny towns, with cobbled streets that the bus could barely scrape through. The bus also passed through Bled, a tourist town with an iconic castle on top of a cliff overlooking a lake. At one point, we passed by a small town and some kid with a shaved head heiled the bus (James- This was no underground Hitler).
Once we arrived, we walked around the lake, ate a picnic lunch, slid around on the lake and took pictures. Other people were cross country skiing and pulling children in sleds. (see pictures). We spent a couple hours walking around the lake, then caught a bus back to Ljubljana and cooked dinner at our hostel.
That evening, we went out with our roommates and one of Andrew’s friends from school. One of our roommates was an
Australian doing extended travel and the other was an Egyptian pharmacy student. We went to a bar downtown called (English translation) Skeleton Bar. The bar, obviously, was skeleton themed, with skeletons all over the place and creepy pictures. The bathroom was behind a fake bookcase and was not labeled. It was a cocktail bar and seemed expensive, but each order actually came with two drinks. Andrew, his friend and I all decided to order drinks at random (I picked one called Zofkin Zvarek just for the name). All the cocktails we ordered were about $5. They arrived at the table and tasted really sweet and went down incredibly smoothly. We all exchanged looks and finally came to the conclusion that, in fact, we had all just ordered plain juice for $5.
The Egyptian student ended up buying us real drinks and it turned out, although he didn’t tell us explicitly, that he did some sort of recruiting for Egyptian tourism and pharmacy school or something. When we left Ljubljana the next morning he asked for everyone's’ email address, for some sort of database…explains why he spent around 40 bucks on drinks for us the previous night and why he had hundreds of Euros in his wallet.
Day Two – 2.16.2009
We woke up at 730 am and caught a bus to Bohinj, an absolutely beautiful lake 
surrounded by mountains and forests. The ground was covered in snow and most of the lake was frozen, enough to walk and slide on. The bus ride itself was quite interesting. We passed through the residential areas of Ljubljana, which are basically just fairly rundown apartment complexes, a sharp contrast from the downtown. Once out in the countryside, we passed by many farms and little farm houses, with unique hay storage racks that appare
ntly are famous. We also passed through tiny towns, with cobbled streets that the bus could barely scrape through. The bus also passed through Bled, a tourist town with an iconic castle on top of a cliff overlooking a lake. At one point, we passed by a small town and some kid with a shaved head heiled the bus (James- This was no underground Hitler).
Once we arrived, we walked around the lake, ate a picnic lunch, slid around on the lake and took pictures. Other people were cross country skiing and pulling children in sleds. (see pictures). We spent a couple hours walking around the lake, then caught a bus back to Ljubljana and cooked dinner at our hostel.
That evening, we went out with our roommates and one of Andrew’s friends from school. One of our roommates was an
Australian doing extended travel and the other was an Egyptian pharmacy student. We went to a bar downtown called (English translation) Skeleton Bar. The bar, obviously, was skeleton themed, with skeletons all over the place and creepy pictures. The bathroom was behind a fake bookcase and was not labeled. It was a cocktail bar and seemed expensive, but each order actually came with two drinks. Andrew, his friend and I all decided to order drinks at random (I picked one called Zofkin Zvarek just for the name). All the cocktails we ordered were about $5. They arrived at the table and tasted really sweet and went down incredibly smoothly. We all exchanged looks and finally came to the conclusion that, in fact, we had all just ordered plain juice for $5.
The Egyptian student ended up buying us real drinks and it turned out, although he didn’t tell us explicitly, that he did some sort of recruiting for Egyptian tourism and pharmacy school or something. When we left Ljubljana the next morning he asked for everyone's’ email address, for some sort of database…explains why he spent around 40 bucks on drinks for us the previous night and why he had hundreds of Euros in his wallet.
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