Well I’m catching up here after a week and a day… after a rest day in Munich we took the train to Salzburg which we enjoyed very much. Our air bnb was on a quiet street Nonntaler hofstrasse with a bakery next door, a coffee shop a block or two away, and two nice casual restaurants. The main plazas around the river and fortress were very crowded w tourists from all over. We took the funicular up to the fortress for a chamber music concert atop the fortress at night the fortress itself was like a city on the inside just huge 6 stories of living rooms and everything needed to be self contained. The concert was quite good played with the windows open looking down on the lights of the city against the mountains in the background and also a cool breeze came in the windows. They played two encores to end with a standing ovation. I’ll post pics when I get that sorted out…
We then took the train through Austria to Slovenia and 4 days in Ljubljana which truly is a magical and lovely city. Sustainable at every turn, water you could drink out of all the fountains you come across, and the river walks on both sides of the rivers full of shops and outdoor cafes. We took the little electric train tour around town n up to the castle, past the architect plezic? Who was the main architect of Prague and vienna as well, he created long stretches of bench type steps on the sides of the river for people to bath and sun and enjoy the river for picnics and whatever. There were numerous spontaneous concerts and marching bands popping up time to time, and the church bells ringing to tell the time. We were able to walk everywhere we needed to go the pedestrian zone was quite large and even outside of the pedestrian zone it was very pleasant to walk the wide sidewalks and narrow cobbled streets.
We rented a car got a nice Mercedes B180 hybrid and drove here to Pula, another ancient Roman city, with the best preserved of the remaining arenas, which we toured this morning, as well as the temple of Augustus and just old Roman ruins here and there about town. Another very walkable city our apartment tho on the 3rd floor 36 steps up, is right on the main walking strand in the pedestrian zone, so many bakeries, shops and places to eat outside our door. The port is at the end of the street with a cooling breeze off the Adriatic, good thing because it is hot hot hot..no wonder the Roman’s had air conditioning … we are happy to have it too!
Tomorrow we will drive south to Skradin, which is close to Krka National park, famous for waterfalls and swimming, boating. And also near to beaches of the Adriatic, so for two days it’s nature n water, then we will be to Sevid for two days Oceanside and more beach time… more to follow and pics as well.
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