A Little Relaxing…Lazy Days in Ljublijana
After yesterday’s rant it still seems a little self indulgent to admit that I spent ten whole days in Slovenia’s capital city and I really didn’t do a whole lot. Helen and I were getting burnt out so we decided to head straight for the capital and spend a few days purely relaxing before the street theatre madness descended upon the city.
Dragon Guarding the Bridge, Ljublijana City Center
One of the biggest indulgences of the week? Movies!!!! And not just the bootleg DVDs that I bought in Nepal to pass the time (I know it’s wrong to buy bootleg, I know, I know, I know) but an actual movie theatre with the buttery smell of popcorn assaulting my yearning nostrils the moment I stepped into the icy-cool lobby.
I am sad to inform my blog readers that I broke my months of movie-theatre fasting with the latest Terminator movie –Karmen and Mitja, our couchsurfing hosts, were really eager to see it so Helena and I agreed…and I think it was fairly terrible but it was still a bit surreal to be sitting there under the huge screen. It’s been nine months!
I also watched: Star Trek, I Love You Man…and, wait for it, Harry Potter!
I feel so caught up now :-)
It was a tad gluttonous to watch all of these movies, but it was actually pretty cheap compared to what I used to pay in LA, LA land. And I loved it. Movies in Slovenia are dubbed so I was all in the clear as far as understanding them goes…although I almost wish I had watched Terminator in Slovenian, it only could have helped.
Scheduling in the movies was, sadly, a priority for me. I was going through withdrawal after nine months without.
Besides the movies though, another reason that I loooooved Slovenia? They embrace the vegetarianism. After the dearth of edible food in Bosnia, I was a little overwhelmed by the sheer selection of vegetarian food available. Ljublijana even has a vegetarian restaurant to delight my senses! Can I just say how nice it is to have food to eat…good, tasty and delicious food to eat in copious quantities? Very lovely. :-)
With the summer theatre and cultural activities taking place all over the city the week and a half I was there I was able to spend whole mornings catching up on the internet, afternoons at the movie theatre, and evenings watching Swan Lake and the street theatre.
I am recharged and ready to tackle Czech Republic now…which is good because I hear word that Prague is really touristy and that’s what’s next on the agenda!
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