Slovenia - first impression

First impressions matter don’t they?
The cabin crew stopped service at the row of seats in front of me, so I missed out on a tomato juice. That doesn’t matter because we are starting our descent to Ljubljana. Yay! Look out the window and there are massive snow covered mountains - at the end of summer. This will be good.
The airport is 27k from the city centre, but we are landing into farming pasture - interesting.
Al says “Just got an email from Lufthansa - baggage didn’t make it on the plane from Munich” . “Me too” - Regina. “Me three” - Ian. “That makes all of us” - Mac.
“Let’s get a beer while we figure out what to do. That seems like a good idea with great service from our Thai/Italian server, Jenny. Then we sit back and look at the view and suddenly the absent suitcases don’t seem like an issue.
The mountain to the right is Gintovec @ 2,558m, and to the left is 2,158m tall Koshutnikterm . Someone suggest we will ride out that way in a few days - excited!
The baggage issue will require some process to resolve, so we get that done, finish our lunch, send Mac on his flight back to Aus via Paris. Shuttle to the Slon hotel which is very flash thank you.
Wow. What a groovy town. Paris of the Balkans?
It’s a bike city so we love it. There are 9 of us gathering in Ljubljana for a tour, so we will add to the numbers. Everyone is biking and using some of every type of bike. Electric scooters are everywhere. We haven’t deciphered all the rules yet, but it should be simple as there doesn’t appear to be many: cars/busses/trucks should give way to bikes/scooters and they do. Bikes should give way to pedestrians and they mostly do, because pedestrians seem to realise that sometimes it is easier to give way. And nobody gets the shits. Amazing cultural difference from home.Read more