Celje

After Ptuj we headed off to explore Celje and there we had all the rain. Celje was right in the thick of the big rain storm so there were not very many people out and about. When we got there it was lunchtime and there was a pizza place a few min walk from where we parked that looked good and had options for me so we headed off there and got lucky that they had outdoor seating with a small cover so it started dry! Really most places had outdoor seating with covering (mostly umbrellas or awnings) so that was nice. We got a pizza with wild broccoli, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms (so many! They all went to Raymond), and Vegan cheese and that one was so so so good! The wild broccoli has a strong flavor we both loved! We also got one with roasted zucchini, eggplant, and artichoke which was also good, but not as good as the first one! And the dough was really tasty and it was a great lunch, though a lot so we ended up just having salads for dinner.

While eating lunch I thought it is nice it is not raining super hard if it has to be raining…and then of course as soon as we left lunch it started raining harder. We hadn’t worn all of our rain clothes, just a jacket and umbrella and shorts & a dress to walk around in a it has been very muggy and warm, but with the heavier rain it cooled off so we had to go back and get more layers. I realized while walking in our rain gear that town is so much nicer in a rainy day as you can use an umbrella so you are not soaking wet when you get back to the car, the umbrella is! While hiking you can’t really use an umbrella and hiking poles so you are just a wet mess afterwards.

Once we were all suited up for the rain we wandered the town. It is the third largest city in Slovenia (after Ljubljana and Maribor). It was a cute town and asking a river and if it had been sunny and nice we probably would have spent more time there hiking up to the castle and viewpoints and stuff, but we skipped that today especially since the silly low clouds kept covering the hills. But it was a nice wander and were found two places with Vegan cakes - one with a blueberry something and one with a cherry chocolate. We haven’t tried them yet as that is too much food for one day! But hopefully they are good!

Oh, and I did finally find an unhappy person here! Or really a very rude person - the guy who worked where we got the blueberry cake. It was a restaurant in a fancy hotel and man he did not want to help me at all. I do not know what his problem was, but it made me laugh that the fancy expensive place was where the rudest person I have encountered so far was! After getting that one I got the cherry chocolate and the lady there was super happy and friendly like everyone else.

After our wander we headed south to another small town and are camped here, but it has been raining so much we are going to go spy on turn in the morning (and hopefully the rain will be over by then!). All in all a pretty good day even if it was a wet one.Читать далее