{"id":2218,"date":"2018-05-09T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:52:31","slug":"180509-mellowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/180509-mellowing\/","title":{"rendered":"180509-Mellowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I left Ljubljana under grey skies, and with regrets. I’d had a great night talking with Sam. The inner city has a quiet energy to it. Visiting Slovenia in May has worked out well; I’m just ahead of tourist season. The weather has been good. Sam still slept as I left. <\/p>\n

I followed the Sava all day, with much of that time between the river and a railroad track, following a small road on one side of the river with the highway on the other side. The first 40 km of the day, with a few big exceptions, I rode downhill. Of the two castles I passed, Fuzinski Grad had been converted to a modern architecture museum (with an Audi photo shoot in progress), and the other a residence.\u00a0
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Just quiet cycling along cycle lane or small country road, passed by the occasional tractor or small car. <\/p>\n

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I selected a hostel 60 km from Ljubljana. Email back and forth this morning confirmed they had beds available. 60 km wasn’t far considering I followed a river downhill all day. Indeed, I considered pushing on but decided to instead take my time. <\/p>\n

When researching this route the other day, I’d read a proposal by someone to create a marked cycle path between Ljubljana and Zagreb. They’d cycled the route twice, and commented the only issue was a roughly 20 km section where the gorge constricts permitting only one road. That observation was dead on. The last 12 km I bit off in 4 km chunks of narrow roads and heavy traffic. <\/p>\n

A mining car filled with coal indicates the turnoff, a clear indicator that Trbovlje used to be a mining town. Checking in at the hostel I learned no mining remains, although there are a few museums, and many of the old buildings and homes. After checking in I wandered about town a bit before settling back in at the hostel, as the only occupant of my room for a quiet evening. I could leave my bicycle in the hall outside my room, making unpacking a breeze. The music playing in the hostel bar is light American jazz. <\/p>\n

I’ve spent the last two days cycling mostly down. Indeed, I think I can follow the Sava, only slightly angling away from the coast, for another 400+ km. The question remains of what then? More than a week of cycling downhill bodes … poorly … for getting back to the Adriatic across the mountains. I’m tempted to take a train (or bus) over the mountain range, since I’d like to cycle along that part of the Adriatic. It occurred to me today I could go far south inland, and then just cycle back up the Adriatic coast to Venice, bypassing most of the cycling in Italy. I wonder. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I left Ljubljana under grey skies, and with regrets. I’d had a great night talking with Sam. The inner city has a quiet energy to it. Visiting Slovenia in May has worked out well; I’m just ahead of tourist season. The weather has been good. Sam still slept as I left. I followed the Sava … Continue reading “180509-Mellowing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}