There - And Back Again

[wiseheart]

Well, I'm back. Obviously. It was a grand trip, even if a little bit exhausting. One wouldn't believe that a small country of only 20,273 square kilometres would have so many different landscapes and climates - but it has.

I had a weirdly Tolkienesque feeling along the whole trip. We've been to the Glittering Caves of Aglarond (the immense limestone caves of Postojna, which would have made any Dwarf-friends among us faint with pleasure) and to a Dwarven fortress (the castle of Predjama, which has been built in the very mouth of a cave and under which is antoher underground labyrinth of caves and escape works). Dís, Aislynn and Ro would have been pleased, I'm sure.

We've been to Rohan, i.e. to see the mother herd of all Lippizaners, in the town Lipica where this race of horses was first breed and is still being bred. Isabeau, Jasta and Jillian would have been in thorews of ecstasy, I think.

We've seen Kheled-zâram, surrounded by the snowy peaks of the Misty Mountains (Lake Bled, actually), with another castle perched upon a sheer rock, and the Long Lake (Lake Bohinj), the water of which was so clear that you could see the two thousand metres high mountains hang upside downin the water like in a mirror, amking the dizzling impression of double height.

We were also in a small coastal town named Piran and in the capital, Ljubljana, which were also beautiful, and the Adriatic Sea so incredibly blue one had to see it to believe.

More details as well as picspam will be available here, on my LJ as soon as I have finished labelling the pics I've made - all 137 of them. *g*

Comments

[rcfinch.livejournal.com]

What a lovely post! I've been to Slovenia once in my life, almost forty years ago now, when I was a child. We needed a visa to get in. That time, I saw most of the places you mention here (and one you don't mention - Portoroz, which was a nice little fishermen's village back then). It makes me feel all nostalgic to read about them here. I'm looking forward to seeing your pics, and I'm glad you had such a great trip!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This ws my first time, and I was completely overwhelmed. Picspam will be up ASAP.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to the pics, it sounds beautiful!

[mistry89.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if you had two trips in one :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Or more. :))

[makamu]

I am very much looking forward to the picspam :)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Soon I promise.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a wonderful holiday.

Many years ago I nearly got a free service to my Waler mare for a Lippy stallion..but circumstances prevented it. Would have been a wonderful horse, I think.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I have a handful of horsie pics, too, especially for you, Jasta and Isabeau. *g*

[jilba.livejournal.com]

Oh you lovely lovely person! I'm already agog with delight!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! I'm collecting the best pics the colleagues have made, and then I'll post them.

[jilba.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks!

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Glad you had such a successful trip - it sounds absolutely wonderful.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was, believe me!

[jen-rock.livejournal.com]

That trip sounds amazing and I look forward to the pictures. I love the Lippizaner horses. I read a book a long time ago about how they were saved during WWII and I've always wanted to see their show. I just haven't had a chance yet.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

We have a great herd of them here in Hungary, too. But seeing them in Lipica itself is something else.

[nerwen-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a lot of fun! That's good.

I love the Lippizaners - I haven't seen the ones in Slovenia, but I have seen the ones in the South of Austria (at the stud associated with the Spanish Riding School of Venna), and have seen the Spanish riding school performance, which was amazing.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Spanish Riding School! I've been planning to see their performance for years. One day... yes, one day I will. :)