First Time In Slovenia! 🇸🇮 Ljubljana, Postojna Cave & Predjama Castle

good morning everyone, today we are in a new country for us, slovenia. we arrived here two days ago from the dolomites in italy but we decided to have a rest yesterday since we did so much hiking in the dolomites, it was five days straight. i was very tired and we're starting off in the capital liubljana, a bit of a complicated one to say but i think that's the correct pronunciation. and right now we walk into the old town, so we're just staying back there, it's about a 17 minute walk from where we're staying. so we're in a pretty good location, some cool artwork on this building, looks like a skateboard shop. and this is the old town, so one of the nice things about the capital is the many bridges and there's a river going through the middle of it, so you can see the other bridges there, i'm sure we'll be crossing many of them. got a cathedral, hoping to visit that. and there's also the castle on the hill, we're going to be heading up there soon, hopefully it'll be quiet now because it's still kind of early. and this bridge is called the dragon bridge, you can see this really cool dragon statue. so i think the dragon has something to do with greek mythology, there was some sort of battle here where a guy defeated a dragon and now it's become a symbol of the city. and this is one of the main squares, preserin square. once again i'm not sure if i'm pronouncing that correctly, slavic languages are pretty difficult to pronounce for english speakers so preserin is that guy there, the statue, i think he's a famous poet, slovenian poet. and look at that for a beautiful church, pink colored one, don't see many pink churches. so that's from the 1600s, franciscan church, beautiful. and next to the square we have the triple bridge, it's three in one. i'm pretty sure i read that the middle one where the cars pass is the oldest bridge in ljubljana. so i think we're gonna go to the castle straight away, it opens at nine, while it's still cooler, it's around 24 degrees celsius right now in a couple of hours, it's gonna be over 30. and the entrance to the castle is this way, one of the entrances, beautiful fountain here. before we continue with our day we want to introduce you to the incogni is a personal data removal service that automatically removes your personal information from public websites and private databases. data brokers are companies that specializes in collecting personal data from various online sources, including web searches and data breaches on sites you use. they may gather information like your full name, home address and even your financial details without you even knowing. this data is then sold to other businesses and sometimes criminals who may misuse it to harm individuals. but that's where incogni steps in. incogni has an automated system that identifies where your data is being used and sends a request to have it removed. even when new cases arise the system automatically takes care of them. your personal information can't be used 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kind of modern, i wonder how it was in the past. yeah definitely an awesome view though. so we can actually see where we just walked, that was that franciscan church. so we came down this road and we're staying just over there. i said 17 minutes but it's probably more like 13-14 minutes to walk. there's also a park over there that we're planning on visiting maybe after lunch. yeah beautiful buildings everywhere, some really big ones here i'm not even sure what those are. we're the only ones up here now. there was a family when we came up in the background, lots of big mountains. we came here through austria, so from the dolomites we went up into austria and then through some big tunnel that came into slovenia, through some mountains like that. so online it says that this was originally a medieval fortress, probably constructed around the 11th century but then completely redone around the 15th century. glad we did it at this time of the day. yeah it's still very hot. yeah it's feeling 30 degrees right now already. because the sun is really strong but it's definitely better than if we did it in the afternoon. and i was just reading about this capital, it's one of the the smallest one in europe and i think the population is just around 290 000 people so that's why it has like this cozy feeling that we were talking about. yeah i like small little cities like this, it's very green too. i think i read that it's one of the greenest capitals in europe, you can definitely see that. so you definitely get your money's worth for what you're paying. we thought it was just going to be like castle stuff but there was an amazing light show that you probably saw in the last footage and there's also a puppet museum. carol the puppet master. i like the bell here too. carol's gonna do her second show now, i can watch it from front. that's nice dancing carol. hello there, there's this other one now. let's see how good carol's show is. i'm not sure what the story is carol. now we've got some sort of art gallery yeah there's so many things here, we could probably spend a couple of hours here i think we've been here over an hour already so we ended up coming back down the hill on the back side of the castle this time, extra extra quiet here, all the nice colorful buildings. we're gonna see if we can do one of the boat tours, we're not entirely sure where you have to go to book the tour but pretty sure we'll be able to find it. so previously we've visited croatia, montenegro and albania in this region and obviously italy where we just came from. so we still got a few to do, was it bosnia, serbia? yeah we still have many to visit. and yet again another beautiful square and fountain. so that was really straightforward it was exactly where it was marked on google maps, so the guy is right there, just booked it straight away with him. there's one leaving in 20 minutes and it's 15 euros for 50 minutes so i think that's a pretty good deal. and the nice thing about ours is it's like a traditional wooden style boat a lot of the ones that are passing by are just more modern looking like this one. i think you so we are back on land once again, it was a really nice boat tour. i think it was more around 40 minutes, not 50 minutes. and i was kind of surprised that it only took about five minutes and it felt like you weren't even in the city anymore, it felt like a remote river. you probably saw from the footage that there were so many nice riverside bars too and restaurants. not far at all from the old town, definitely one of the most charming cities that we've been to. yeah it's really nice and laid back, i mean there are many tourists around but for an european city capital it's really laid back. so even around 1pm it's still not that packed here, i thought it was going to be a lot busier. seems like a nice city to cycle around, there's so many people renting the bikes it's small, it's very walkable also so you can get around quite easily, quickly. we've been blessed with sunny days almost every day on this euro trip so far. carol found a place with some local food online, we're just trying to find it. this place looks nice, the beer garden, empty right now so that's the name of the place, slovenska pisa. that's what i'm saying, they have these like little symbols on the s which it's basically not an s sound i don't think, completely different sound. so i'm going to get their local dish beef tong, 8 euros 40, that's just a starter and then for the main i'll get the veal liver 14 euros 80 and you're getting the famous sausage yeah this one i don't know how to pronounce. sausage 15.30. so the beef tong certainly looks interesting, it's cold i think, it's almost like a thick ham i'm not sure if that's my favorite from first taste, might be the sauce though yeah it's okay, i wouldn't say it's amazing to me, just strange, maybe it grows on you they also gave us some bread with this spread, it's like some sort of cheesy thing i've already had a bite it's really tasty, see what carol thinks, carol likes cheesy stuff it's good, i think it's like cottage cheese and some herbs and other stuff. and now the main dishes have arrived, mine is delicious i've already had a taste, liver is really good for you too a lot of food, i really like the gravy sauce, mashed potatoes, carol has some mashed potatoes but very different to mine. yeah i think they mixed it up with some other stuff because it looks different from yours. is that garlic on top, roasted garlic? i'm not sure yet, no. no? something else and then you got some dips too. yeah this is mustard so i'm dipping the sausage here sausage is really good, it's like smoked pork type of sausage. so now we're gonna head into the cathedral, the main one, that only opened at 11am that's why we didn't go in the morning it was too early, just waiting for carol to finish her ice cream. yeah i really needed it since it's so hot and it was 2.70am. for a scoop. yeah vanilla. and next to the cathedral there's a little market it seems a bit quiet right now, looks like it's mainly fruit and vegetables. yeah some of the stalls are already closed so i guess we came a bit too late. lots of nice fresh fruit though cherries? yeah the fruits are beautiful and they smell really really nice. yeah strong smell as we pass them by. so i ended up getting some pants, if you can remove them, linen should be nice and light for the summer, 35 euros, pretty good. wasn't even planning on getting any clothes. yeah i've been trying to buy one similar to this, i've been searching for the past weeks but i cannot find it and you were not searching for it and you just found it here so from what i read online this cathedral was originally from the 1700s, an amazing painting on the front. i guess these are some of the saints 1872, saint fortunatus, saint hermagoras 1872 also. i saw pictures of this door, i didn't realize it was the cathedral though some huge metal door, so it's three euros to enter. so we ended up doing some more shopping this time for carol mango. back there was one of the main shopping streets, some really nice buildings once again, we passed the opera house, this building here says galeria, not sure if it's a government building, it has the eu flag over there and it looks like yet again another church i don't think we'll go in this one, that cathedral in the old town was really nice on the inside. and this building on the left is a modern art gallery, we're just heading to tivoli park which is over the road back there, so even the main park here is super laid back not many people around at all, there's like a mansion up there, big nice house, we'll see what that is. so we could see all this land from the castle tower, this part is just a tiny piece of it, if you walk further in i think there's trails and stuff in the forest. the sign says that it's an international center for graphic arts, so maybe a kind of exhibition inside. so it is the next morning and we've driven an hour south to postojna cave, it's the most visited cave in europe we actually only just found out that it's 10 degrees celsius in there, so i just went back to the car to get some jackets and you can get on a train, 90 minute train. there's also the predjama castle, we're going to be heading there. so there's all kinds of different tickets you can get, we're going to be doing one and two, the cave and the castle. so i guess that's this one, 47.50 for adults a sneak peek of what we're about to see, i read that it's 24 kilometers long, that's why you get a train inside. the train is from the 1800s, old train. yeah since 1824 cave guides have been delighting visitors with stories from the wonder world of postojna cave. it includes an audio guide in the price so yeah we'll get those. yeah when we bought the lady asked if we had a car to go to the other spot, the castle, we said yes but i don't know if we had said no if we would get a shuttle because now we will have to go there and pay for parking again, not sure. yeah we had to pay for parking here, six euros. i think there she said it's three euros for an hour here is six for the entire day, six or eight. so we are back out, my eyes are just adjusting to the light again, it was definitely 10 degrees celsius in there. i think she said the sensation is actually even colder than 10 degrees. yeah because of the humidity i think it was like 95 or 98 so that's very humid and it makes it feel a lot colder. but i would say it's probably the most impressive cave that we've been in. the train ride i think it was like 10 minutes to get there and then you walk around for i don't know like 40-45 minutes probably more and then you had the 10 minutes back, just super impressive the only downfall for us is that we were at the back of the group and then they kept turning off the lights. yeah it was very annoying, i was annoyed at the end because it wasn't our choice to be in the end of the group and you can't just walk past all the other people because it's just like a tiny walkway. yeah so you were walking like on a queue and then we were one of the last ones and i think for some reason they wanted people to go faster and then they would just turn off the lights and we were just seeing the place and then lights off. yeah i think they just don't want people hanging around too long so if you do come here i guess try and get to the front of the queue but like carol said we couldn't go any faster, we're not just gonna pull those through the people so sometimes you're listening to the audio guide and it's telling you about a specific rock and then it's not in the light anymore but then other people in the group got it in the light so yeah that sucked a little bit but it was still phenomenal either way and we still got to see a lot of things in the light. yeah i think that was because they were putting like two trains of people together in just one tour group so i think it was just too many people they need to put less people if they want to make the tour quicker. yeah they could just reduce the groups and not have to do that i suppose. and even in the cave we got to see this guy there was like a little place with water there, couldn't film it though it was too dark but yeah could definitely make one of them out. really cool look at the little arms apparently they live up to around 100 years old. so we've come to one of the restaurants at the cave there's quite a few to choose from there's a self-service one i think this one specializes in meat, they had a roasted pig over there at the entrance so we're gonna get this one for both of us, mixed meat platter for two with a side dish 34 euros 90. i'm feeling weird like my hands are... from the cold? yeah it's really weird. yeah i'm feeling a bit strange still. it's hot very hot outside. we also have a really nice view overlooking this river, rivers everywhere in slovenia by the looks of it. so they prepared this in like less than five minutes, that is an absolute feast. i mean that could even feed like three or four people. yeah but i think you can have this all by yourself. me? yeah. i do eat quite a lot. yeah i like the bread though so you can see you can put stuff inside so maybe we're supposed to put the meat inside what have we got? what's this? cheese. oh yummy. fried cheese. this is chicken and this is a type of sausage and this is another type of sausage. yeah and then there's some like pepper based sauce there or spread and then some fries too, looks great. smells amazing. it really does get the sausages in there. and the cheese. are you gonna put chicken as well or just that? no i don't know if you're supposed to put the french fries inside as well. yeah i'm not sure, i think i want to do what you're doing. it's really good, i love the sausage, this one. so now we have come to the predjama castle, there's about a 15 minute drive from the cave parking and that's it right there. the current one built in 1570 but there has been some kind of castle there since the 1100s but that one was damaged and that is the largest cave castle in the world. got a more up close viewpoint from here. i think it's going to be the first time we've ever been in a cave castle so i think you can actually go and explore the caves. yeah we can see people up there they must have gone through some tunnels. there's even a tunnel down there, tunnel or... oh yeah the yeah true, i wonder if you can get in that way, might be closed. yeah so you can see the castle here and look at the cave beneath it, goes on for ages. yeah 19 kilometer passages, one of the longest cave system in the slovenian karst. so here you can see a part that's the natural cave wall and then this side is man-made. yeah definitely haven't been in a castle like this it's really unique. so this was the courtroom and then it's linked straight to the torture room yeah there's somebody hanging by chain there it seems or maybe rope. so the most famous person to have stayed in this castle is called erasmus of predjama, so he was a knight in the 14th century that people call the slovenian robin hood because he would steal from the rich, i don't know if he'd give to the poor also, like robin hood. and he defied the austrian habsburg family because all this was part of the austrian empire, the dolomites also that we just visited. this is that viewpoint that we could see people at before. yeah so apparently that erasmus guy, he was able to evade the officials in this castle the whole time for around a year, they couldn't get to him because of all the tunnels. but then someone finally betrayed him and apparently he was killed by a cannon whilst using the toilet, weird way to go out. i was wondering before how he was able to evade them for a year in here but at that time i didn't know that the cave system was 19 kilometers and i think he also had a secret passageway to another valley to receive food from people that supported him, one year in this place. whoa no way. it's a different world here. yeah this must be the proper cave system now and we can go up, cool. it's cooler. yeah the climate, temperature i mean it's really nice here, not 10 degrees like the other one it feels about 20. so this is the apartment that we've been staying in, it's 148 euros which is good from the prices that we've seen in this area since we're in walking distance from the old town. the only problem right now is that it doesn't have ac, we didn't know that when we booked it and there's some crazy heat wave going on so i mentioned that it's like 34 degrees celsius but then if you check online it shows real feel is around like 37, 39 so it feels like a oven in here. it's like we're in the middle east but apparently these kind of temperatures are not normal. so it's been kind of difficult to just hang around in the living room. yeah but it's a really nice living room, got quite a lot of space the tv, been watching football there. not sure if the owner is from cuba or something, there's lots of cuba stuff here. the cuban flag, pretty sure that this might be from cuba too. i think in the kitchen there's a picture of havana, yeah that's definitely havana. maybe they just really like cuba. and then the kitchen is also good, we've been doing some cooking here. we have a dishwasher and through this way one of the balconies with a sofa, that's why we have all the windows open but yeah there's just no wind at all, i think that's also why it's so hot. then through this way the bathroom and we also have a washing machine so we're able to wash our clothes and then our bedroom is through this way. that's the only thing we have like a fan, it works good enough for us to sleep though. and then out here is another balcony and that's where we can dry our clothes. so really happy that we've finally come to this country, it's a place that i've seen pictures of online many times so really awesome to be here and yeah it's definitely lived up to our expectations and in the next video we're going to be visiting the beautiful lakes lake bled and i think we might go to another lake called bohin which will be good because in this heat we can do some swimming and things like that so it should be perfect. if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us, subscribe to see more videos like this, follow us on instagram and facebook and we'll see in the next one