I've spent the past 24 hours in Slovenia's capital city of Ljubljana (loob-L'YON-uh) and it's been wonderful. The city's population of about 300,000 makes it large enough to offer cosmopolitan style but small enough to maintain a personal image.
In the middle of Ljubljana is a medieval castle, sitting atop a wooded hill, overlooking every corner of the city. The narrow, cobblestone streets immediately surrounding the castle make up the city center, a spiderweb of medieval design with all sorts of charm.
The city seems to have a young spirit built on art, music, history and education. It's a fantastic place to visit and I imagine an even better place to live.
This afternoon we'll rent a car and drive to Piran on the Adriatic coast. Oh, and the weather is beautiful!
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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.
~Mason Cooley
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
~G.K. Chesterton
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
~St. Augustine
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3 comments:
Hey there..Nice to read such a good things about my country :))So, you rented a car?? I supose that was the best idea...
Greetings from Kamnik (small town) where I live...Remember me? Tourist board on railway station.
Say hallo also to your friend.
Alenka
I've always wondered...do other countries have keyboards that permit easier use of accent marks?
Azor:
Yes they do. Most of the eastern European keyboards I've come across have all those special letters like vowels with accent marks, the letters C S and Z with upside down "^" over them, and that sort of thing. Most of them share the keys with the "normal" letters and are accessable by using a special function key that's down near the keyboard.
Also, the "Y" and "Z" keys are switched on most of the keyboards, many of the standard punctuation keys are in different places (which is why I type so poorly when I blog from hostels) and the "0" keys is to the left of the "1" key (probably where it should be).
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