Ljubljana vital statistics: Population (2016): 279,756 (city proper), 537,712 (metro) Latitude & longitude: 46˚ 03′ 20″ N, 14˚ 30′ 30″ E January average temperature: High 3.4˚C (38.1˚F), low -2.5˚C (27.5˚F) July average temperature: High 27.3˚C (81.1˚F), low 15.5˚C (59.9˚F) Time zone: GMT+2 (6 hours ahead of U.S. EDT) Language: Slovenian Currency: Euro (€) Exchange rate:
Unlike all of my other destinations, I’m not traveling solo in Ljubljana, Slovenia. My friend T. lives there, and she has a car! Our mutual friend Kim’s visit to Ljubljana overlapped with mine for several days, and so the three of us, in addition to hiking all over the city, also took a few road
Rijeka, Croatia is not one of my 18 candidate cities, but it’s well situated as a stopover between city #8, Split, and city #9, Ljubljana, Slovenia. As it was, the bus I took from Split to Rijeka (pronounced ree-YAY-kah; the “j” in Serbo-Croatian is pronounced like the English “y”) on 29 May 2018 took eight