I first read about the capital of Slovenia in Wallpaper Navigator. Prior to this, my knowledge on Slovenia was limited to what I learned from a friend, whom I met when staying with a host family in summer 1998, in Oxford.
So when Lisa and I were looking for places to visit near Trieste, I suggested that a few days in Slovenia would be fun as neither of us had been there before. The same afternoon, we booked our tickets to Trieste and checked out different ways to get to Slovenia.
After slightly more than two hours’ flight to Trieste, we spent another 60 minutes on a bus from the airport into town, where we changed to another bus and eventually headed to Koper in Solvenia. The last journey took only 30 minutes, plus the time we waited for the immigration both getting out of Italy and getting into Slovenia. We finally arrived in Koper before dark.
Koper was a very peaceful place and the locals were friendly and helpful even though they did not speak much English. We celebrated our arrival with a meal at a small but friendly restaurant called Istrska Klet (I say restaurant, but it was more like a small pub with a few tables). The bean soup with roasted pork was excellent.
