Bled, Ljubljana and Begunje in Slovenia

Before I began to attend the Prolearn Summer School in Bled, I joined in the fieldtrip on Sunday, 4th of June. Slovenia is not that large. It took only 2 and a half hour from Bled, which is located in the North of the country to the coast in the South. A nag en route was impossible because we met the best tour guide we have ever met. The most group members gave Sascha this esteem. He did not stop one minute to introduce Slovenia to the guests.

Tranversing the gold coast as well as the show windows in Trieste, we reached our first stop Piran, a mediaterean town. The market places and the colorful walls remind me of the squares in Rome or Florence. One colleague from Ljubljana said that she ever drove 2 hours from the capital to Piran, just to sit in a cafeteria on the sea shore for several hours.

After lunch in Strunjan, we visited the largest cave of Europe, the Postojna Cave. Sascha doesn't recommend the cave very much because it is somewhat commercialzed. He was proud of the caves he and his friends ever discovered by themselves. I could not notice the commercial issues since I have not visited any large cave since 28 years ago.

Then we visited the most important sightseeings in Ljubljana in the bus. The statue of Julia and France Preseren, the Slovenian national poet is one of the most impressive sightseeings, because Sascha had told so many of his stories and tragedy and recited his poems. The stories had almost moved every girl in the group. On the way back to Bled, Sascha did not have a lot to say, so the topic switched to the fabulous stories and conventions of his hometown, the most beautiful town with the most beautiful folks music in his opinion. In the end, we figued it out. It is Begunje.