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The A-Z of My Favourite Travel Destinations — Ljubljana

Only spent a day here — not long enough

Adrienne Beaumont
Globetrotters
Published in
7 min readOct 17, 2022

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Overlooking Ljubljana from the Castle All photos by Keeley Schroder

Our day in Ljubljana

Waking up to a bright, sunny day, (and I mean bright!), we decided we’d take a run into Ljubljana to check out the city. (We were staying about 20 minutes outside of the city — best option when you have a car.)

It seemed like we hadn’t seen the sun for weeks but in fact, it was only about 8 days.

The first obstacle was our car was covered in ice! We had to try scraping it off, rubbing it off, using the wipers, and putting on the hot demister. Eventually, I went back into the house and found a squeegee when wet with hot water did the trick. It was -2C, the coldest we’d experienced so far. Fresh snow had fallen on the mountains and it was a beautiful drive into Ljubljana apart from the “closed road”.

Driving into Ljubljana

We thought we’d try it again and drive on the footpath as we had been doing previously, but it was actually being excavated by a huge digger, so we had to turn around in the narrow road and try to find an alternate way around ourselves —…

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Adrienne Beaumont
Globetrotters

I’m Australian. I love to travel and write about my adventures.I write about my daily life as a mother and grandmother as well as my past experiences.