My first full day in Lubba Jubba, and I headed straight for the central market area to find some brunch.

Now this thing fascinated me - the daily unskimmed fresh raw cow milk vending machine! The deal is you bring along your container (or buy one from the adjacent vending machine), insert your money corresponding to the amount of milk you want, stick your container under the tap and it pisses out cold milk - direct from the udder to you. Brilliant!

Further down the road was another wee food market, complete with entertainment - video here.

While the other market sold fruit and veg and flowers and the like, this one was more about takeaway food.  On the left is buckwheat cake, made from buckwheat dough with a topping of cottage cheese and sour cream, and people couldn't get enough of it!

That being the case, my brunch consisted of buckwheat cake and raw cow's milk hehe. Yummy!

From nearby Triple Bridge I headed south along the river.

For when the military prison was full?

While still on the river I headed out of the old part of the city and into the Krakovo area, a supposedly village-like part of the city. Once upon a time it was a fishermen's settlement, but is apparently best remembered as the "Ljubljana Montmartre" (referring to Montmartre in Paris).

Seemed village-like enough I guess and a good little spot to wander, though nothing really going on (much like the rest of the city).

With that I headed back into town and up to the castle. There are three ways of getting up there: the silly train on the verge of breaking down...

The funicular...

Or a nice steep ten-minute walk. Prefect!

The medieval Ljubljana Castle sits atop the only hill in the city, and dates back to fucking ages ago. Archaeological surveys suggest the area of the present castle has been settled continuously since 1200BC, with fortifications being built around that time too. The oldest mention of the current castle dates back to the early 12th century, so this hill has been busy for a while.

There's an exhibition downstairs of various photos taken during World War I which made for interesting reading.

Chik-chik, boom!

From the castle I wandered down the other side of the hill...

...back through Krakovo...

And to Tivoli Park, the city's main park covering approximately five square-kilometres and containing three main avenues with random trees, random flowers, random statues, random fountains...

...and random people, including grandma feeding the birds (who subsequently stalked her and wouldn't leave her alone), and granddad chillaxing in the sun.

So yeah nice spot, and with that I wandered back into town and had seen the bulk of what there is to see in little old Lubba Jubba. I gotta say, despite the porn and the graffiti that might suggest otherwise, Ljubljana is a beautiful little place! The centre has a very romantic feel to it, which I never thought I'd say about a city (expect maybe Paris) but there you go - definitely worth at least a full day!

Something I'd been seeing all over the city was this ice cream, and after an all-you-can-eat-BBQ dinner back at the hostel I was in the mood for some, and took a few night shots while I was at it.

Triple Bridge.

Cobblers' Bridge, also known as Shoemakers' Bridge, dating back to at least the 13th century. It started as a wooden bridge with a butchers shop on it, but the stench from the meat was so strong that the Emperor at the time paid to have them relocated. The occupiers of their booths following this were shoemakers, and so the bridge has its present name.

Riverside DJ cranking out the trance beats.

The myriad of riverside bars by night - awesome spot!