This morning after the usual morning coffee at a riverside cafe, Sarah and I set out on a day trip- taking a train just a half hour out of the city to the small hilltop town of Kranj. We planned to stay from noon until six. The weather was a bit cooler, and it was windy with occasional sprinkles of rain. Unfortunately, it would seem that today was something of a national holiday... and so we arrived to find the already quiet locale quite boarded up. Really you would think they had gone for the season, not just the day... it was nearly a ghost town. We saw scarcely two dozen people on the whole of our wanderings.
The town was small, just a couple lanes of shops and a couple small church squares... but was said to have nice hikes and walks off into the surrounding hills. Finding town to be a very brief affair, we decided to amble down a trail wending down from a scenic bridge we'd roamed out to. So we rambled through the shaded lush greenery alongside a perfectly delightful woodsy stream for a stretch, then looped back up into the town when another bridge and trail afforded it. I enjoyed the view of old villages and church spires nestled down between steep cloudy hills. We then sat at one of the couple open cafes and drank lemonade, passing another hour... bringing us only to about two o'clock. We finally decided that our best recourse would be to return to the train station down the hill and see if there was a timetable posted- and hope there was an earlier train back to the capital.
We were glad to find out that a train was coming through in just a half an hour- so we sat and waited... contemplating our abbreviated day trip and hoping our tickets would be good on this earlier train. And indeed they were. A train came and returned us to Ljubljana from whence we came.
Day trip fail? Not entirely. We had a good walk, a good talk, a bit of adventure, and saw more of Slovenia... it wasn't what we had expected, but turned out good just the same:)
