LJUBLJANA UNDER THE STARS
At 5PM, the mayor will turn on the lights at Ljubljana's main square, you should go early because it will be very crowdy, told us Eva, the young blond lady who had brought us the keys of the apartment in which we had chosen to stay in Ljubljana. This was the last stop before going home to our own apartment in Paris three days later. We had walked from the train station, fifteen minutes away on the periphery of the capital city of Slovenia. Initially, the town felt modern and anonymous in the way that concrete block-housing and industrial premises can be on the outskirts of any city. Along the street leading us straight to the Zmajzski Most, the bridge of the dragon, which has become the emblem of Ljubljana, the houses had morphed from concrete into older buildings. Two bronze dragons are posted on each sides of the stone bridge crossing the Ljubljanica which encircles the old city built around the castle that stands on a hilltop. The central market was empty at the time...
