LJUBLJANA, the Capital of Slovenia: Is it Worth Visiting?
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2017
- Exploring the lovely little city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.
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LJUBLJANA, the Capital of Slovenia: Is It Worth Visiting?
Check him out, folks! The guy at 8:50 Samuel Blues :)))
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@@lechat8736 Cool, I love his guitar playing.
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LOL... Hi, Gabriel! I loved this video. I also liked the fact that you mentioned Melania. Whatever anybody thinks of the Trumps, facts are facts and it certainly is worth mentioning. Thanks for sharing and friendly greetings from Laško (pronunciation: lushko) the city the beer was brewed that you drank :)
Ljubljana surprised me because it doesn't feel like a capital city or a big bustling city like other places I visited in Europe. Very laidback which suits an Aussie like me.
InAUGral Very true but you must know that Slovenia is a small country and Ljubljana can't compare to Europes big cities.
Staso Stergelj he probably meant that whole Slovenia has less citizens than average Chinese village
It relaxed ... and safe also ...
Staso Stergelj just because there's smaller countries like Lichtenstein doesn't make Slovenia big
Žabarji se jim reče
We, locals pronounce the name Loo-blah-naah in slovenian: Lublana. The J insertions only happened after an artificial linguistic reform, but the local dialect is still prevalent.
Greetings to Любляна from Russian alphabet.
I enjoyed Ljubljana (I don't understand why so many people find it difficult to pronounce.) Though I only took a day trip there when I was visiting Zagreb. I ate at a Bosnian restaurant in Ljubljana and I ordered more food than I had Cevapi and I ordered the double portion but the waitress was like 'No, no please get the single portion' God I wish I listened to her. :D
what was the name of the restaurant? Was it cheap?
That city looks very artsy and lively, wow! Crazy how it isn't as well-known as other European cities.
2,80€ for a beer that is actually expensive for most of us in Slovenia, you have pubs where you get 1,5€ for a beer :)
Lara Divine 1,5€ za pivo? Dej prosm povej kje, v Ljubljani se nism pil pera pod 2,2€ :D
Semafor bar velki pir 1.5e laško union
Hairy Potter Pa je res, pozabu sm na semafor :D Sam tle se pa pomoje tut konca? :D
Hvala za info. V centru LJ je v zanikrnem lokalu na Čopovi pol litra vode 3,5 evra. Res da je LJ kao turistično mesto ampak kar je preveč je preveč.
Vi vete, da je ta video namenjen turistom, ki pridejo trošit v Slovenio. Zakaj smetite tle naokol.
I really loved Ljubljana! Very beautiful friendly little city. As an architecture student I especially liked the lovely architectural details that you can find around the city when walking with open eyes :)
Thank you....love the architecture and the street musicians..
Ljubljana is so worth visiting in my opinion! Just visited for one day as well and posted a vlog! Would definitely go back.
Yeah, cool town. I'd love to go back and see more of Slovenia.
is anyone here from slovenia
Mina Maslicic 'fkorz :)
Mina Maslicic yes
seveda
Ja :)
ja
"There's graffiti and there's art"
YOU SAID IT, GABRIEL!
They should really do something about all the graffiti.
phototristan no because grafiti are part of that space in Ljubljana it's cloture of young people here as you can see there is no grafiti in the center where most important stuff is :)
phototristan that is the multiculturalism this is why Europe is going to shit this is the leftist agenda
Who are behind those street graffiti?
@@phototristan The government here tried to remove them etc. but it's a pain and young self-proclaimed artists are protecting that part of the town with their own lives... There are sanctions on the way but it's a slow process.
Thank you Gabe for showing us how beautiful Slovenia is! you are awesome man, wish you all good in your travels!
I would like to applaud your itinerary choices throughout this journey, you have had a phenomenal trip to this point.
Thank you for your presentation of Ljubljana.
Lovley city ! keep on traveling the world we love your video's thank you for sharing al those beautiful video's !!!
omg, you were staying in celica and couldn't turn left to show metelkova mesto in all its glory
yea i know right, he probably doesnt even know about it.
no need to show that shame to the world
Luka čurkovič why shame? It is a unique gem and it should be cherrished
thebeatles112 full of junkies, and also is very unclean
Luka čurkovič the junkies i dont mind, they found their own place, where they could do what they want in peace. Its good. Been there many times, during all 4 seasons, literally never saw it being unclean
Cool city seem laid back not to crowded.
Lovely content! Keep it up!
Great videos Gabriel! ;) Indeed our country has an amazing things to offer (landscape, food, etc.). Greetings from sLOVEnia. ;)
Loved this city when we were lucky enough to spend some hours there while on tour, enroute to Zagreb. Would love to go back. I walked over most of what you showed here. Oh and, dragon statues.
This video made my day..😀
Awesome place
My beautiful home town 😊
Can you please explain whos behind all the graffiti?
Anci522 Slovenia. Girls are. Beautiful , and the city . Do u have any suggestion where it is a good place to stay for 14 days thanks.
What a great video. Thanks!
Hi Gabe, I went to Ljubljana last October and I can say that you did that city justice. You showed the beautiful, the fairytale-like things, the ugly (which really isn't so ugly compared to other cities), and the normal everyday things. You captured it all! Thank you for sharing!
You pronounced Ljubljana very well :) ok three times: The Ljubljanica River, the Ljubljanica river, the Ljubljanica river :) great representation of Ljubljana, I love your video. I live here for 30 years (also born) and I know it is common to say about your hometown, but I really love it and adore it in all seasons. It's very lively during the day, and during evening you just need to find proper stops where the life goes on, but when the night falls in the city center it is very quiet. Also from March until October each Friday you have the "open kitchen" concept with various food.
You should also come in December - each day it is so great. I have a tradition with my father to go out each evening and drink some spirits and just enjoy the whole vibe. You get to meet people, gypsies go around and play different balkan music, and all of the lights are giving you so much festive vibe.
On the other hand I am also in love with Slovenian mountains, there is so much to see and so many mountains and hills to go for hiking with breathtaking view. Maybe 10 years ago I was really into moving outside Slovenia but now I can't imagine not living here.
Thank you for such great video!
My birth city love it . Have to see it!
Thanks Gabriel! Specially for Vlatko Stefanovski!!! So cool!
definitely a interesting place to go visit
It is very interesting to see this city through your eyes. I love this video and all the others that you posted. Keep on travelling :)
Thanks, appreciate it.
Leb I sol, around 11:00, that's the music we like at Balkan. " Kao na strazi, cuvam noc od budnih, ja sam samo jedan od sinova bludnih. Pravih se reci, uvek kasno setim, odgovor znam kada ostanem sam." Vlatko Stefanovski, the legend.
Dirty Diana poz iz mkd :)
Here now on slovenia.peaceful and quiet so far. The maze apartment is an old tobacco factory. They have everything you need if your looking for a place to stay
Glad to see the name of my country morocco المغرب on your t-shirt :) your videos are awesome
haha crazy. i was at that hostel like 2 weeks before you. eating breakfast in the kitchen area you showed and there was no music show, but they had a beer pong tournament. it was really fun. I've been watching your videos for awhile and it's exciting seeing you finally visit somewhere I've gone to first hahaha keep it up man. great stuff
Cool!
beautiful place! loved the video !
Absolutely,this place is amazing
Beautiful city! You should definitely visit lake Bled.
interesting place, beautiful despite the excessive graffiti and I have to mention the streets look great
Have some respect for postmodern art forms. Ignoramus biggus
Dude..! You were in my city, too bad I didnt know ;/ For sure I would take you for a lunch and a drink, show you around. Glad you enjoyed your time here.
No way, I didn't realize you lived there. Maybe next time, though I don't know when that might be. Problem is my videos have been delayed, so whenever the videos get posted, I'm usually long gone by then. I'm about 10 days behind with the videos right now.
I'll be coming in September/October. Hope you'll be available to take me round.
Thanks 🙏
I don't think Mrs.Melanja was from there ( rather 160km away)
But she attended her senior high school years in Ljubljana
And the plate pronounced niyoki !
I get to know one more country I have ever been to, I am following your video as I like the countries that you are going to. :D
The Lasko looks tempting :)
Love the T-shirt bro !
To all the people saying what’s with the graffiti, he rented a chep hotel in a part of the city where everyone wants to be a artist so there’s allout of the artistic installations there. It looks shady but it really isn’t. The most dangerous thing you can come across in Metelkova is a hipi with a spray can.
I took that endless road from Villach into the Socu Valley...Hemingway spent time their during WWI..and was wounded there.
Lived in Croatia for awhile while working contract for USG...Know Croatia well..will be back 2017 summer for more fun.
i saw you in Cozumel..where I am headed in October for two months. Now in the States...dobro/RH
I am slovenian and Ljubljana is for me cool city
Awesome music!
Hi Gabriel! Nice video, great content.!! By the way, what camera did you use for the video. Awesome footage.
Nicest jail I've ever seen! Not a fan of graffiti though.
Awesome job mate...
love your vedios..
onething,tell us about temperature in ljubjana...
That is a very big pine , smile ;)
Definitely better than Budapest
Franklyn R. Ben-Khaled no way Budapest has a lot more to offer..
Being living 3 years in Ljubljana. The center is wonderful, the castle surroundings are too. There are some very beautiful spots like restaurants and pubs, old houses, etc. But, when you leave the center, you enter Yugoslavia in all of its "splendor". There you can find the worst architecture ever seen, roads full of holes, high concentration of CO2 emission. Take Šiška, Fužine or Bežigrad. Shortly, the urbanistic is terrible in Ljubljana. One would say:" Well, this holds for most of the cities." No, it does not. Take Budapest or Prague, for example. You have a lot to see outside the city center. Yes, Ljubljana is smaller in comparison, but that does not justify the incredible lack of other nice spots in the outskirts of the city.
Find local friends to take you places, they'll prove you wrong, my friend! Been living here for decades (Šiška, Bežigrad, Nove Fužine) and the only other city I love is my hometown :)
@@escesc1 you are so wrong ...no need to explain
Your first pronounciation was the right one! :) greetings from slovenia
Excellent, thanks. You mean it isn't "jubel-janna"? Ha ha. I was just joking with that one.
Its pronounced Lyublyana. The Eastern European J=Y in English
user1607987 Actually the second one was better than the first one.
You are really a morron! South of Bavaria was part of Slovenian lands at the early middle ages. Austria is only the name of the kingdom of many nations. Most of them were Slovenians, than Germans, some Czech, some Polaks, some Langobards (Italians)...
See this map of Bavarian author from 1773 about early middle ages: shrani.najdi.si/?k/sy/4MB4LMkr/nordgau-und-pannonien-un.jpg
Dear Homeguard Taliban!
Slovene language was official language in Habsburg's Monarchy!!! All state affairs documents and official bulletins were published in Slovenian language. Without Slovenes there wasn't be Austria (Slovenian, Ojstrica)! Even Maria Theresa was crowned by Slovenian law (Institutio Sclauenica), because no German laws at that time weren't allowed succession to the throne by the woman descent.
Habsburg's state bulletin in Slovenian language: shrani.si/f/1M/z7/3Qg7CMxe/vladnilist19st.jpg
Austrian Kingdom citizenship certificate in Slovenian language: shrani.najdi.si/?4/ga/1VJ4S9KG/slika022.jpg
Graffiti out of control but very interesting place to explore...
Well only in that part of the town, the self-proclaimed artists have it on lock down...
The 'LJ' in Ljubljana is pronounced a 'lli' in the English word; mi-lli-on.
Great video. :) You should also visit Serbia-Subotica, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Western Serbia :)
Gabe you should go to Serbia after Croatia Belgrade is very nice, friendly people and is dirt cheap you will love it! I was there twice last year and the city is very beautiful you'll get the same vibe as Slovenia
Thanks, we'll see, I might end up going there.
Gabriel Traveler cool dude in case you do let me know my fiancée lives in Belgrade she can show you around cheers brother love your content
Wow it’s still look the same after more than a decade. I have been there in may 2010 !!!
Well Indeed a beautiful place, your style of presenting makes it all the way more beautiful I love it when you put the camera through people, food and most imp Beer..BTW how many countries in #countries conquered list ?
I also spent some quality time there.
I like how you do the freeze frame in these earlier videos. Maybe you should bring that back.
You were in hostel Celica that was a prison, nearby there is a place is called Metelkova and it is an alternative art centre, that is located in an ex milaitary (barracks) and there is music and stuff there sometime douring the weekend in the eavening. That also explains the graffity (the well done ones anyway)
Nice man ur room was in front of the biggest hippie/junkie place called Meta or Metelkova! I hope u got lit!
Lovely hotel been there in the summer ...
I would just like to point out that in the part of the city where there were so many grafitti, it is actually full of grafitti on purpose. They don't clean grafitti on purpose so it gives that street (Trubarjeva street) a special vibe to it and it serves as a tourist attraction.
I see, so it's just that one street which they leave like that? That makes more sense. Also then the graffiti artists know they have one place they can paint and their art won't get cleaned off.
Fully impressed with clarity and quality of your camera brosef! What are you using?
Excellent. This was filmed with a GoPro Hero Plus LCD. I have different cameras, so when in doubt you can always check the info section below the video and the camera used is listed there.
planning on going to there this summer! what do you think is the cheapest way tog get there?
First time i go to Ljubljana i get 2 fat lines of fire..and for free. Coolest city by far. Pizzeria FoculuS is a must if wanna eat masterpieces of pizza (and that's an understatement)
I love how you pronounced Ljubljana as Đjubljana :D :D :D
Hey, Gabe. I wish you have time to visit the Phillipines. Its more to see beautiful islands there.
I love LJ city center
Hi Gabriel...great show. What kind of camera do you use?
Hi, camera info is in the description below the video.
I love Slovenia and I really like your videos. BTW: I'm planning to visit Cape Meares in October. Do you know of any nice & cheap places to stay in that area???
Thanks. I stayed at a cheap campground near there, but that's all I know right in that area. I'm sure you could find something on booking.com.
I guess when you live there your whole life, you don't really notice, how much graffiti there really is everywhere, lol.
even more grafiti now with those crazy leftist polluting the walls with their propaganda.
Great video. Can you visit Tel-Aviv??
~So cool, *Gabe,* truly...!
The second pronounciation of Ljubljana is right or as close as you can get for a non-Slavic speaker.
Yeah that's about as close as I'm going to get, haha.
The foreigners could just skip the "j"s (Lublana) and they would pronounce it good (as many slovenians do this :-)).
The secon pronounciation of the Ljubljana was correct. :)
It seems like the sun goes down very late. You arrived to your hostel at 6pm, went into city center, walked around, ate dinner and the sun was still out.
Thanks for the reply Reflex, I've been to western Europe and know they have longer daylight but wasn't sure about central Europe. I'll be in Croatia in a couple of weeks, so I'm looking forward to the extra long summer days.
cool video:))
Slovakia 🇸🇰 ❤️l🇸🇮Sloveniu
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Melania is from Sevnica.Sevnica is even smaller
hi Gabriel, what do you do in the evenings on your own? the day time is ok cause you can explore but in the evenings its a little dangerous and not so much is open, so what do you do? is that when you edit your videos on your laptop or do you take a night coach or something?
Yeah in the evenings I usually edit my videos, go out to a restaurant or walk around. It isn't dangerous to be out in the evening in most places.
Just remember Veronika Decides to Die. In case song name of band playing on stage?
Leb i sol - Cuvam noc od budnih
hehe ... 4.27 poster for my concert ... yellow print :) ... and again 11.26 ... greatest hits :) btw we played right next to the hostel you were staying on Metelkova, Gala Hala ... hostel's name can actually translate as The Cell (as in jail cell) ... since it was an old Yugoslavian army base ... Cheers
Cool.
Nice t-shirt :D
Found ljubliana more charming than Zagreb
Very interesting to watch your videos! Want to ask about travel to Krakow and Warsaw in Poland and Lviv, Kyiv, Odesa in Ukraine, beautiful and historic cities with architecture!?
Yeah they all sound cool. I might have to save those places for another trip, we'll see.
2,80 € for a beer cheap? OMG
That's cheap for that size, at least by American standards. That size would probably be around at least $7-$8 USD.
Yeah but in eastern europe it is expensive. Gabe was in Bratislava then Budapest , there he had beers for 1-1,50 €. 2,80 € is too much , for 3,50 I can have a beer in Vienna or Bavaria. And let us not compare european and american beer. I would not pay for that beer 50cents .
stefanszlobodnik you can get the same beer for 2 -2,4 eur just a couple streets up. He drank in the turist district.
he did the same mistake in Bratislava.i sent him a link to a nice restaurant 300-400 m from the centre, but he picked a restaurant for tourists with crappy overpriced food.
stefanszlobodnik In some cities in Slovenia is beer only 1 dollars or 50 cents
Did you know that Ljubljana has 46 bridges over ljubljanica thats the biggest number in the world by a countrys size
mmm still looking for the info of the first band and the Congress Square, it sounded very interesting as some brass oriented fusion-prog ensemble there, though I felt a bit sorry for the lack of a more crowded audience. thanks for sharing the musical ambience of the city (which reminded some views and ¨green¨ airs of Christiania, but with much ease and better feeling) this is what I found about the festival www.visitljubljana.com/assets/Dokumenti-PDF/Programi-prireditev-v-PDF/Programska-knjizica-festivala-Junij-v-Ljubljani-2017.pdf
Vlatko Stefanovski
Hostel is called Celica. Cell-ic(short c)a. :)
Welcome to my birth city Gabe. :)
Cool.
Zagica where do u live now?
Just to help,C in Slovenian is pronounced like TS for English speakers or Z for the German ones...
great!
Nice video, but you forgot something :P You are welcome to join us at Stand-up Paddle boarding tour, when you come next time in Ljubljana. :) We promise you, it shoud be funny.
LUL you literally walked my way from school to home XD
Nice music!
Pretty nice video
At 6:15 missed historical site ouch
What month was that ?
This was in June.
Looks like you finally made it to one of the Balkan countries. I was in Ljublijana for a month back in 2013. It's a college town and even so, I would rank it very high on one of the most safest places I've traveled to so far.
I ate cheese "bureks" everyday and still miss not having fresh ones in the states. Hope you had some too!
Enjoy the Balkan region!
Maaan . I wish there was a way to send you fresh sirov burek . If you find any or know any . Let me know . Ill do it .
uhmm slovenia is not balkan
Sorry dude, Balkan region begins with Bosnia
yes it is ... i mean it was a part of yugoslavia and its the border to the west
Slovenia is Balkan, everyone knows that (you can google it)
One thing I noticed in your entire European tour that bicycle is the most popular two-wheeler in most of the European cities......it is good for the environment while in India most of the people ride bikes and scooters.....very few bicycles can be seen in big cities here......
Lot of european cities force peuple to use bicycle. Like in Ljubljana they banned motorize vehicles in city center so you don't have a choice, you need to walk or use bicycle, ok you can also use motorcycle but need to be electric and because the area is classified as pedestrian zone need to be registered as vehicle that is not faster then 25km/h.
Excellent step.....