Ljubljana, Slovenia–Jul. 27, 2025

Some traffic signs near the hotel. There are also traffic stanchions that raise after 10 a.m. to prevent cars from driving through. (Before and after pictures shown here.)

Pedestrian safety comes first
Motorized bicycles are prohibited in pedestrian areas!

Attention, lifting column
Delivery: 6:00-10:00

And now, various pictures while walking around the city center.

There’s a bridge with dragon sculptures at the ends. (There’s a dragon on the city’s coat of arms.)

This looks more like a gryphon to me.

Castle Hill

I decided to walk up to the top of the castle hill rather than take the funicular.

The diagonal metal grooves let rainwater run into the stone gutter at the left.

There’s the rail for the funicular, with the end station at the top.

Back down to ground level, and more of the city.

“You do not know the day or the hour”, which is some biblical quote about not knowing when the second coming will happen, but rather a strange thing to put on a sundial.

That’s some amazing metalwork on this door!

Museum of Modern Art

Most of the time, the pictures give a fairly good idea of what the art looks like. In this case, a lot of the pictures weren’t anywhere near as good as seeing the work in real life.

The museum also had an auditorium; it was showing a movie named “Infinite Repetitions” by Ema Kugler. Here’s an artist’s statement-type summary. I came in near the end, which was sort of freaky but captivating. Then the video started again, and wow, is the first part ever disgusting. I didn’t watch the whole thing.

Tivoli Garden

On to something much better. I didn’t go through the entire park (it’s very large), but did get a few photos:

Signage

No, this doesn’t stand for “Not Gonna Lie“. The name translates to “The Smallest Theater in Ljubljana”.

This is a plaza named after Saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed the Glagolitic alphabet, a precursor to Cyrillic. I found it amusing that nowhere in the plaza was there anything written in Cyrillic. Go figure.

Interesting name for a bubble tea store.

I like the way someone redecorated the pedestrian on this sign.

The menu (top half) is kerned properly. The menu holder (at bottom) has way too much space between the G and the Ò. That being said, their blueberry cheesecake is very good (according to my friend), and their ice cream is also very tasty.