Wednesday, October 15, 2008

First Impressions of Slovenia

Seriously there are some good looking people in Slovenia! At least the ones we encountered upon our arrival. The bus driver, the airport personnel even the cab driver was cute.
Lucious green landscape surrounds well maintained homes, no crapy run down anything. Landscaping adds the finishing touches to their homesteads, window boxes filled with colorful floweres and accent of pumpkins, gourds and talking gnomes. No need for homeowners association. Historic buildings have been incorporated into newer construction keeping the history and adding a modern touch.

One of their favorite pastimes is to sit at a cafe/bar and drink tea or beer and talk. The evenings they have more drinks but even at lunch it is not uncommon to have wine or beer. Considering it rains quite a bit here they have a lot of outdoor seating. Even at the airport they had that outdoor cafe.


When driving your rental car and you have chosen and automatic. You will find that the cars do not have a clutch but you still need to shift. Strange when you don't know that and you are reeving your engine as you pull out of the airport. So basically it was a flashing sign saying tourist as I cruised by the cafe after leaving the car park. All I could think was Mr Bean goes on Vacation!

The airport is very easy to get around, there is one baggage carousel to find your luggage! When we first arrived on our very little plane we exited onto the runway and walked to a bus, got on, sat there and then took a 100 yard u turn to come back to the exact spot that we got on the bus, only the doors were leading into the terminal??? Who knows what that was all about but I was joking when I leaned over to Brenda to say "wouldn't that be funny if we came back to the same spot!" Sure enough we did!

More thoughts to come!

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