Saturday, July 21, 2018

Ljubljana Out-Takes

Dog bakery

I think this is a boot-scrape, but that may raise more questions than it answers

At a souvenir shoppe with a map asking visitors to pin their homes, Vicki pins
Missoula

Sushi shoppe with dishes floating by...


Fancifully attired baboon reading Paradise Lost, sipping Laphroaig; could be me


At the rain circle at Preseren Square


Locusts are all over Slovenia, and Croatia, and at the market in Ljubljana


Milk-O-Mat, where you can get bottles of unpasteurised milk, from a vending
machine

At all the markets, scales for consumers to use, just in case

Sculptural realization of Masaccio's Expulsion

"And don't ya come back no more, no more..."
Seriously love-locked bridge

Interesting poster

Beer and Jameson's?

Still processing

Ljubljana is more or less flat, like Amsterdam, and is a cyclist's city; cyclists here
ride like they have the total right of way, ignoring pedestrians, bike lanes...the
pedestrianized inner city only exacerbates the one unpleasant feature of the place

And just when you're really enjoying some place new and different and maybe
even a bit exotic...

How to lead tourists to your back-alley artsy restaurant


Comment on stray columns?

Very near the University Library, A Block of Discord

Friday, July 20, 2018

Ljubljana Art Nouveau

Or Secession, or Modernista, or whatever you call the architecture of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Little Ljubljana has its share, well worth seeking out. The names of almost all these buildings have changed in the past century, but the beauty has endured, at significant private and public cost no doubt. It is one of the great attractions of this city. I'll try to add names in due course...
On Preseren Square 

The Gorgeous Union Hotel
















































Some of the interior...






Across the street
Ditto

Interior; formerly a bank, now law offices; the guard let us in for just this one shot
The Galerie Emporium



Staiurcase

Door detail



Post Office; seriously









Half of a square with towers at each corner





OK, not Barcelona or Paris, but pretty neat nonetheless