Archive for June, 2008

Loving Ljubljana

In the introduction to the Ljubljana section of Rick Steves’ Croatia and Slovenia, Rick says:
Batted around by history, Ljubljana has seen cultural influences from all sides — most notably Prague, Vienna, and Venice. This has left the city a happy hodgepodge of cultures. Being the midpoint between the Slavic, Germanic, and Italian worlds gives Ljubljana [...]

Statue Park

We’ve had glorious weather since arriving in Budapest a couple of days ago, but this morning the heavens opened up and it’s been stormy and gloomy all day. We debated scrapping our plan of venturing out to Statue Park, but it was one of the places we had been eagerly looking forward to seeing ever [...]