No Place Like Home

Between the Ohio-like country side, the Euro-Buckeyes and Jenny Holzer's art exhibit, it was clear the Ghost of Gallipolis was following me through Europe. However, I would have never guessed that the iconic Gallipolis Gazebo would show up in a one square block in downtown Ljubliana.

Oddly Like Odd Home

My maternal grandmother had taught me to yell at pesky poltergists in sets of threes to get them to leave you alone. So after a cry of "GAHS! GAHS! GAHS!" and a monster sized breakfast provided by the hotel, we set out for some exploring.

After trolling through some local stores (including a nicely stocked record store) we headed up to the old castle that used to dominate the local landscape. And it's quite a landscape:

OK, so it's bigger than Gallipolis.

The castle was pretty cool for an old D&D geek to see, but not out of this world. There had been a wedding there that day with traditional dancers and singing. Sadly we missed crashing it by about 5 mintues or so. After the hilltop hike, I convinced cheese to go and inspect the ruins of the Roman wall that had surrounding the old part of town. Sadly, there wasn't a whole lot left and it was more like a Roman low fence that might have kept out some rabbits in a pinch. There were bigger parts where some gates had been, and some benches, but nothing terribly exciting. Here's a Roman feature:

Not my graffiti, despite what the
spelling might lead you to think.

We explored the old part of town the rest of the day, got accosted by some young Euro-Christians and ended up drinking some more beer by the river to end the day. It was pretty easy to see why so many young people came to the place for a week or two, it was a beautiful relaxed setting. I certainly could have stayed there for several more days happily. I guessed the Gallipolis gremlins were gone after I found convincing evidence it wasn't small town Ohio after all:

"Shameless Hussy" defined.

We bulked up the following day at the local Mexican restaurant (not bad, but service was suh-low!) and then took off for the Italian coast. What a mistake that was.