Thursday morning we checked out of our hotel and said goodbye to Ljubljana (hopefully, for most of us, it’s just “see you later”) and headed to Predjama Castle. The castle is one of the most famous and photogenic in Europe and is infamous for the betrayal of its master, Erasmus, the rogue prince who refused to pay his feudal lord his due. Eventually betrayed, he was blasted from his “throne.”
We then headed to another very famous tourist attraction, Postojna Caves, huge karst caves which have been a tourist attraction for nearly 200 years. We zoomed nearly 2 km. into the mountain on a tiny train before a stopping to walk through multiple “rooms” of karst formations.
After we left Postojna, we drove to our last stop in Slovenia, the port resort town of Piran. We walked to the top of the town and viewed the city from the porch of the Church of St. George and many of us had a snack or lunch in one of the many restaurants at the seaside or in the city’s piazza. The piazza contains a statue of the city’s favorite son, Baroque composer Guiseppe Tartini.
Late in the afternoon, we began the last leg of our trip to Venice. The process of traveling to Venice is, in typical Venetian style, complex, involving bus, vaparetto, then another bus, before arriving at our hotel, the Hotel Foresteria Sportiva Cà Del Moro, a resort hotel on Lido, a part of Venice located on a sand bar in the lagoon.
