PEACE CORPS SLOVENIA!!

Hello dear friends and greetings from Ljubljana, Slovenia! Allan and I are having a fine adventure and want to share it with you.
So....this is Orthodox Easter weekend in Macedonia and we had some time off, so decided to fly to Ljubljana for the long weekend, and such a great decision that was. This is our first trip out of Macedonia and,I must say, we were sad to leave our new home. But once we got on the airplane, our love of travel came back to us!

Why Ljubljana?! Twenty years ago we hosted our first German exchange student for a year. Andre was a delight, and now,twenty years later, he is still a delight, living and working in Ljubljana with his wife, Shokouh. So we've had the grand tour of Slovenia.

Ljubljana is amazing...clean, friendly, convenient and inexpensive. Lots of bridges, castles, history, good food. Ice cream is the go to treat here..everyone but everyone walks around with delicious looking ice cream cones, may have to try one of them!

Yesterday we drove the hour to the Adriatic Sea. We walked along the coast from portoros to pirano, about three miles. The coast is beautiful, we could see both Italy and Croatia, enjoyed the walk and delicious coffee drinks!

And the towns! Castles, churches, bell towers...cute dogs, ice cream eating people, open air markets with wheels of cheeses and breads that are six feet long...all with the back drop of the Adriatic Sea.

And on the way home? Tons of bonfires burning in the dark! Everywhere you looked, from farm yards to town squares to the tops of mountains were huge bonfires! It seems that April 30th is the day to celebrate the end of winter and the arrival of May 1, or May day, and the Slovenians celebrate with bonfires and parties into the night. I was sad not to be invited to join in the parties, but now that I know when they occur, there's always next year!

Today...cave touring and castle exploring and that's enough about that because Allan and I need to get some food so we can get some sleep! Too much fun, too much adventure. As the slogan says..We feel the LOVE in sLOVEnia...Time for you guys to visit here and feel that love, too!