Europe Trip: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Day 81: From Venice, Italy to Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ljubljana became one of my favorites. Maybe it was because it was the first place that gave me a real Christmas feeling but it was surely a beautiful city and friendly people.

Laundry time in our super nice apartment in Ljubljana

The Pink Cathedral

The Triple Bridge and the Castle in the background

Day 82: Ljubljana Castle and restaurant trouble

View from the Castle

Breakfast at the Castle

Breakfast at the Castle

Museum of Puppetry

View from the tower

Walking down from the tower

The Chapel of the Castle

The Dragon museum

The Castle outside

 Looking for a place to have lunch we found this... After walking in and being informed that they only serve horse meat Alex decided he wanted to go somewhere else. Lol!

Europe Trip: Venice, Italy

Day 79: Public transportation to Murado, Venice, and Piazza San Marco

What an interesting place! We took the bus to Stazione di Venezia Santa Lucia where we got a two day boat pass which we could use to get around on the public transportation in Venice, boats. We had rented an apartment on the island group Murado (which is know for its glass making) so we knew we would use the boats a lot. We arrive to a pretty cold and rainy Venice. Somehow I pictured it as a rather warm place but not this time of the year... (late November)

Walking from the bus to the boat

Our first boat trip

The cemetery island

Piazza San Marco

Basilica de San Marco

There are many unusual laws in Venice to try to help with the enormous amounts of tourists coming each year. Some examples - you may not sit down and eat in public areas, you may not feed the pigeons and you may not gather in groups on the bridges. 

I was not even feeding them!! I actually sat on Noah first but I was not fast enough to take a picture.

The kids got close to some tourists who ignored the law hoping a pigeon would come sit on them. 

Watching gondolas

Chiesa di San Zaccaria (last rebuilt in 1515)

The basement is knows for being special because its is flooded

Venetian ambulance

Day 80: Glass making in Murado, "Gondoling", book store and Canal Grande

Glass making equipment

Glass blower

Going on a boat bus in the Canal Grande...

Many beautiful buildings along the big canal

On a Gondola in the cold weather

Back on land we find a book store we had read about. It had a fun book stair in the back of the store :-)