We woke up and walked towards the river for breakfast. We picked Slovenska Hisa where SMS ordered eggs and I ordered the “Slovenian breakfast,” which consisted of hearty bread and two soft spreads, a kind of quark I think. We were trying to eat on the light side since we were booked for a food tour that we thought we should be hungry for. Note, not all food tours actually feed you all that much but I had a good feeling about this one!
The food tour was AMAZING! We booked through Ljubjlanajamjam, a cute local business owned by Iva. She was so enthusiastic over email that I really, really hoped that she would be our tour guide. She was! Yes, so lucky!
The tour consisted of us and a German/Swiss-German couple. We went to six different places. I’ve included the overview in a screenshot above. I don’t want to make it too searchable since this is Iva’s special itinerary. It was an excellent tour.
Highlights include my newfound food love, štruklji (rolled dumplings); walking through the different markets and sampling things since Iva smoothed the way; having an incredible gnocchi dish at Biro; and stopping in a cool coffee house where you pay based on how long you stay, not based on coffee, WiFi usage, etc. I’ll be honest, I didn’t get the business model concept on the coffee house but apparently there are several throughout Europe.
Afterwards, I was a bit antsy so we left to walk towards Ljubljana castle. I don’t know what my problem was since it would have been fun to chill out at the coffee shop. But, the castle was very cool.
We walked up the hill towards it and then bought our tickets. The views from the walls were awesome and we explored several of the rooms, including the dungeon (spooky!).
For dinner, we walked back downtown and chose Altroke. It was on the quiet side but had good food. I slightly preferred the restaurant from the night before but it was still a nice choice.
Then it was off to bed to get ready for our big day of countryside exploring and dinner at Hisa Franko.