It’s in the high 20°s when we wake up in the mornings, so I am in no hurry to go out. So, we did some laundry and finally went for a walk in the late morning. We came out the door to find a hot soccer game happening in the street:

I discovered a really nice, tiny coffee place right across the street from us, but they don’t open until 11:00 meaning I am not sure how many times I’ll go.

We walked in a new direction, south, away from the old town and along the river, so pretty, calm and quiet. There was a big grocery store and we went in there thinking it would take 5 minutes but the language barrier made it an adventure. There was a very helpful woman in there who acted as an interpreter for us.

Back at the apartment to put the clothes in the dryer–very strange. It works mostly on centrifugal force and when it is done there is a water container in the front you need to empty. We ran it for 2 cycles and the clothes never really dried so we hung them on a rack.

We had booked a Roundabout Food tour and we met our guide, Jasmine, at 3:00 p.m., in front of the I store. Lucky for us, there were only 3 of us on the tour! So we met sweet,young, tall Taylor from Melbourne, Australia and off we went. She gave us a bit of history and context about Slovenia in between the food stops. We learned the wine regions, although I could not possibly remember their Slovenian names. We learned about the statue in the main square,which is of Slovenia’s greatest poet, Preseren, and his muse:

Six restaurant stops included: a little fish plate, vegetarian soup with pumpkin seed oil, local prosciutto and cheese (the only stop with a red wine), sausage with great horseradish and my favorite, štruklji with mushroom sauce. It was a rolled dumpling with cottage cheese in the middle and the creamy, rich mushroom sauce on top. At each place we tried a different wine. I liked the off dry whites the best.

Walking between places she took this shot of us at the Dragon Bridge:

And she showed us the fountain and clock tower at the city hall building. There are 2 dates on it–1718 when it was first constructed and 1928 when it was restored:

We ended the tour at a rooftop bar at a hotel (can’t remember the name of it) where we had a sweet layer cake with apples, cinnamon, poppy seeds, cottage cheese and a thin filo-like pastry. There was a really pretty spiral staircase in the center:

I thought it was a very successful tour. We learned and tasted a lot of Ljubljana. By the time we got back home, around 7:00, we were beat and full.