A fun day in Ljubljana

Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, and you can not pronounce it either, and we have had lessons. First forget the "j"s, - we were told the second one makes the sound of an epsilon (whatever that sounds like).  

The photo below is the lobby of the Ljubljana Town Hall. Patt is thinking of recommending something like it for Burgaw.  

We hiked up the hill to the Ljubljana Castle overlooking the city. The view from the top of the castle tower and looking toward the mountains to the north of Slovenia, and most of the country by the way.  There are only about 2.5 million people in the country and about 250,000 in Ljubljana. So this is not the largest country or city in the world. In fact, in China it would get lost, heck in California or Texas it would get lost.

As bad a prisons were in Budapest for victims of the Hungarian secret police or the Nazis or the Soviets, the prisoners of the middle ages who were imprisoned in castle dungeons had a hard time too.

We were at the Ljubljana Castle for "Castle Day" with lots of period actors,  guess which one is an actor.

The outside of a well maintained castle that is the main tourist destination of a city.

Outside the castle was a cooking demonstration and I could not get a sample of the meat stew despite my best efforts of trying to convince the cook that I needed a sample.

 There was also an armorer who would equip you with a knight's headgear and a sword

well you have heard, 

Don't tug on Superman's cape….

Don't spit into the wind

Don't draw on the ole Lone Ranger…. 

There was a lot going on all over town today, including a tight rope walker who needed his safety rope to keep him dry. He did not make it across. We saw him fall several times.  (It was a low stress day--for us— not him.)

We did go to the National Museum, (you knew we would) and found the world champion picture frame. We are now officially considering reframing several of our pictures at home with this as a model. This is a painting of St George slaying the dragon - and it is properly framed. Capital P on properly.

Patt and I both like the elegance, yet balance, this frame presents. It gives a photograph or piece of art a proper perspective.

After being in bunches of museums and seeing lots of paintings of naked and near nekid women, (as this is a family blog, there is not one below) I have decided that painters just like painting women with no clothes on. Bathsheba, Ruth, with breast showing, Delilah, some other biblical woman who I can not remember who was seen near nude, and of course the Greek and Roman goddesses are all frequent subjects of artists.

I doubt I am the first person to make the observation that artists like good looking models, but I just felt like it was one that needed to be made. Next time you are in a museum, notice. Below is another not nekid woman. By the way I liked both of the paintings. The one below is actually an impressionist painting and I have lost my note on who the artist was.

Tomorrow on our way to Salzburg.