Yesterday it began. Again. After three months. Packing!! We still have a couple days to go before our move but I figured it´s best if we already start on it, so that we are not fretting last minute and can still enjoy ourselves a bit these last few days, and also can still meet some friends or make a trip. We purchased five more large moving boxes in Baumax, so it just MUST be enough. With every move the amount of our stuff is increasing, so it´s each time longer and less relaxed to pack 😦 So I really hope that we won´t be moving again anytime soon!!! In Brno we will have the whole weekend for undisturbed unpacking as we won´t have any internet connection until Monday when the UPC guys come :-p I guess that´s a good thing. We also probably won´t have a dining table for the first few days, but hopefully we will be able to buy a secondhand table which I found online!
Yesterday was also our last Saturday organic market, oh how I will miss it! It was very rainy, so it was not as enjoyable as usually, yet, it will be hard to part with the vast variety of vegetables and fruits offered at the central Ljubljana market, be it the organic or non-organic part. I know there is an outdoor market in Brno, but it cannot compare, sadly…
About a week ago I celebrated my (already 27th..) birthday, it was a very quiet celebration, just the two of us, nobody else… But it was very nice nonetheless! I made a sinfully wonderful macrobiotic cake – a blueberry tofu cheesecake, great success!! And not too sweet 🙂 For lunch we had a falafel sandwich at the local famous (and only :-p) falafel place and for dinner we went to our favourite Indian restaurant Namaste, yum!! And in the afternoon we finally went to see the Ljubljana zoo, which is reeeally tiny and has only around 40 species, but it was nice to see some live animals again. And most of all we enjoyed the children´s petting zoo, where you could walk among a bunch of farm animals which were very tame and (mostly) fond of attention and some cuddles. There were very tiny and adorable piglets there!! But only the older pigs actually liked to be touched. The zoo was a bit chaotic, with a map that was not too up to date, some animals were missing or in different locations, the tiger was unfortunately already dead 😦 And shortly after our arrival it started raining. A lot. But well… not everything can be perfect, not even on your birthday 😀
The day before my birthday we went to Kino Šiška concert hall to see a Megadeth concert. Nar was so excited to go see it. For me it was more of the thing “to do” – although Megadeth is not exactly my cup of tea, I do like some of their songs and it simply is a very popular band which has lots of energy that they transmit to the audience during their concerts, which is always a big experience. It was pretty crowded in the concert hall, but not unbearable. It was also nice to be able to go by bike there and back! Such a huge advantage of Ljubljana!
The most exciting thing though was our Friday trip to the magnificent Postojna caves!! We went there by train, which had about 20 minutes delay, so we had to walk reeeally fast from the station to be able to pick up our tickets (we paid them online in advance, but still had to pick up the physical tickets half an hour before the tour…). We managed just in time! There were sooooo many tourists there, unbelievable! That´s definitely the downside of Postojna, it is world famous, so it is to be expected, but still, it has this disneyland feeling to it, with the crowds and souvenir shops… Yet, the experience was SO worth this fuss! The tour took a whole hour and a half, first we went by a little electric train, then by foot and at the end again back by train. It was very cold inside the caves – only about 8 degrees, while outside it was nearing 30°C, huge shocks! I expected the caves to be cool, but they were beyond my expectations! We saw a couple of kilometres of the cave complex, which has about twenty kilometres in total, with enormous “halls” with stalactites and stalagmites of all sizes, shapes and colours (well, ok, grey, reddish or white). We had an English tour guide so we got to hear some information about the formation of the dripstones/caverns and also about the more new history. The caves were discovered in 1818 and ever since were one of the hugest attractions of Slovenia. Even the word “karst” has Slovene origin. So yes, I can definitely recommend visiting Postojna to anybody, though you have to prepare yourself for being just a member of a large group of tourists seeing the place together with you.
It would be really nice to still get to see the northern side of Bohinj lake (in better weather than last time!) but the weather forecast is not giving us much hope 😦 Anyway, back to packing……..
Walking on Moss 
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