With the dawn of a new day, it was my final chance to run in Slovenia; so I took it. I hadn’t set an alarm, so just went out when I awoke. It was short and slow as for one last time I had my DSLR with me.

I crossed a myriad of bridges, and ensured I photographed each one. Once I’d done that I ran up to the castle to see what it was like - it was a steep climb! I was certainly glad for breakfast being included with the room when I got back to the hotel. It wasn’t bad as far as European breakfasts go - better than most American ones anyway.

This was it though - after breakfast was the final time we needed to pack as we’d soon be heading home. The morning was the only time we had left to see what there is to see in Ljubljana - though I believed it to be just the castle left. Hopefully I was right.

We walked up to the castle slowly; so far the weather was holding out. After paying we found that it seems the castle grounds itself are free, but the ticket is for seeing the exhibitions, and going up the tower to the viewpoint. That was okay - we’d want the viewpoint anyway.

The exhibitions were mostly uninteresting to us - things such as fashion and comics. A lot of the castle has been repurposed into exhibition rooms so there’s very little you can see that actually feels like a castle. The first bit we saw, which was the most obviously castle-like bit was underground where they have an exhibition on dragons and Ljubljana’s connection to them.

The reason for this exhibition here, the Dragon bridge, and the general obsession with them is because of a legend that a dragon once lived in the Ljubljanica river until it was slain by Jason. The Jason in question was the one of Argonaut fame who in the legend was on his way back from having found the golden fleece.

In the next room we had to take a lift to an upper floor where they had another exhibition on puppets. I didn’t think these would be particularly good - but they were actually okay. It’s amazing how good some of the detail on them are for over 100 years old.

Somehow we managed to spend two hours looking around this castle, though I think on my own I’d have been there for under an hour. This meant that when we left it was time to find somewhere for lunch.

As we’d be travelling for the rest of the day it’d be easier to eat something warm early and cold later. Unfortunately my lasagna arrived luke-warm and was cold by the time I got half way through it. I sent it back with the waiter, and it came back piping hot. At least they were able to sort it. It was a shame that a wasp was also keen on our company.

After picking up our bags from the hotel, we were in the taxi and on our way to the airport. Sadly the flight was delayed by forty-two minutes due to a delay in it leaving Stansted. This meant sitting around in an airport with little to do for a little longer than planned, but we still had a further hour after boarding the plane before we could leave due to it having missed it’s departure slot.

Eventually we were on our way, and a few short hours later we were back in England. Our busy adventure along the Dalmatian Coast was over.