A "family" outing today to Slovenia. We finally got going at about 1130 from school and started our trip in Izola with a coffee break - all the non-Italians happily adapting to local practices! Then we moved onto Piran, a town on the coast, established by Venetians. It's a lovely place, very colourful and the sea is beautifully clean. A few brave souls were swimming but it was way too cold for that! Slovenians must be built of stronger stuff than expat brats from Hong Kong!
We stopped for a lovely long lunch on the waterfront, sampling some of the local seafood - and the local wine too - then a wander along the waterfront to a viewpoint and back before piling back in the cars to Ljubljana.
Logistics got a bit complicated after that and we scattered to the winds for a while. But we did get back together at Bacchus Bar - the location for Slovenia's bar reality show - currently filming - which is, as a result, full to bursting. The bouncers are apparantly notorious for not letting peopple in, but we all made the grade.
The numbers dwindled as the night went on, but a hard core group of 7 of us made it to Global - the most famous disco in Ljubljana. The music was hilarious - I honestly don't think I have ever danced to Ghostbusters before!! - but we had a ball and danced til 5 when they kicked us out.
One thing I noticed about the nightlife in Ljubljana is that it is very international. I met 2 large groups of drunken Englishmen (the Sleazyjet phenomenon); 2 Australians, some Slovenians and a guy from Udine who is a friend of Luca and Massimo on my course that I had met previously in the Piazza Unita in Trieste! It was a terrific night, and just what the doctor ordered after the previous week.
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