Ljubljana; Friday, 01 August, 2014

Thankfully I’d booked a transfer in advance, so when I emerged from baggage reclaim, surrounded by the giants of the Serbian basketball team who’d also been on the flight, it was to be greeted (for the first time ever) by someone holding a board with my name on it.

Graeme, from Four Seasons Travel drove me into town, telling me quite a lot of details about the city, things to see and do and suggestions for places to eat (in that strange small world syndrome he’d grown up in Woking and had previously worked in Reigate before moving to Slovenia over a decade before)

Dropped off at my hotel I checked in and then headed out to do a bit of late night exploring.

It turned out that I’d arrived during the middle of the Ljubljana festival, kind of like Edinburgh but over a longer period on a smaller scale, and there were lots of music performers out in town which I spent quote a bit of time watching.

By the time I grabbed an ice-cream from a stall near the town hall it was already nearly midnight, so I headed back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep