"After hanging out with my young Slovenian tour guides in Murska Sobota, I have some new plans. Apparently there is a really cool venue in Ljubljana to see some of the many live bands, I forget what it is called, but if I look it up I'm sure I will recognize the name. Also, the tourism people told me about a hostel called Celica, which is a converted prison. It is sort of an artist enclave, so I definitely have to make time to stay there for a night. My friends knew about this place as well, so that is a good sign. One of the kids, Rok, was wearing a tshirt from 'Metal Camp', a Slovenia metal and rock music festival held every year. It is in June, so I missed it this year, but apparently it is huge and you can bring a tent to camp there. I saw the list of bands on the back of his shirt, and there was no shortage of awesome artists. So maybe next year I will have to come back.
On my list of things to do for this trip, I have added the town of Piran. This is on the coast, and will be the first stop for Jocelyn and I before we start the meat of our adventure. It will be a relaxing place for her to overcome the jet lag.
As for right now, I am sitting at the edge of the river Drava in Ptuj. This is a pretty little town with a nice old downtown (apparently the oldest in Slovenia). The Ptuj castle overlooks the city and the river, inside is a museum (only 2.5 euro for student admission). There is lots of furniture and old tapestries, and a pretty interesting section on tracking the lineage of the castle's residents. My hotel is across the pedestrian bridge (if you know me, then you know I love pedestrian anything). The hostel I orginally found online was booked solid, full of Italians and polish people... Something to do with holidays in those countries.
It was more lively than I expected at night time, with bars all full of people and music filling the streets. And this morning there was tents and tables being set up for... Fisherman's festival? I don't know what it is about, but the tents all say 'Laško', so how bad could it be? Haha. It starts at 3pm, so I will make sure too check it out. It will be hard to avoid anyway.
We'll see what happens. I have no place to stay tonight, and I think all the hotels are full. If this festival is good, I might just stay anyway. I can always sleep under a tree, or maybe some nice person will take me home. Or maybe I will hop on the train to the next town down the tracks. It rained last night, so I think the sky will be all out of water. This always makes things that much more managable."
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