Ever since we left that castle it has been raining so we have been driving west hoping the weather will get better 

We skipped Bratislava because Mom wasn't in the mood for a big city and I'm glad

Leaving Slovakia going through Hungary driving mostly on highways, (why not ? We paid the toll;-)) Mom has already been to Budapest which is a busy city so she looked for something more relaxing and found Lake Balaton which is a freshwater rift lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. To us, it was a lake?

We were parked close to the lake. There weren't many people but it's because the tourist season hasn't started yet and due to lousy weather. Some of the restaurants were open so Mom had an authentic Hungarian Lango with so much garlic Mom's breath would kill an elephant. It was delicious and very filling

In the morning Mom decided we have seen what we want to see in Hungary and continued to Slovenia again mostly on highways and it looked like this most of the way

Mom hates driving in it but continued on

At one time we were passed by these Hells Angels guys from Italy and later at a truckstop, we saw a group with a different name on their vests. Hope they aren't going where we are going.

Again we got pretty close to a stork nest and Mom are quite fascinated with these beautiful birds

There are many castles next to the road but Mom is not climbing up another one, (That's what she says now because she's still sore)

This is an interesting sign we have never seen before. It's at a truck stop that has a special place with stairs so the truckers can sweep the snow off their loads. I know I don't want to be here in the winter

Getting closer to the lake we stopped at yet another castle named Sümeg Castle. The fortress features historical exhibits, knights on horseback & medieval feasts  

Getting closer to Ljubljana which is the Slovenia capital we hit traffic and lots and lots of it. 

According to Alice (she's the lady in the box that tells Mom where to go) we should have arrived an hour and a half earlier. 

When we finally arrived at the parking space Alice directed us to, we met a young couple that was leaving because they had read on an app this place isn't safe. Well, it was a big parking lot next to a train station and a bus terminal nearby. It also had electricity and toilets all free, but Mom also got a bad gut feeling so we found another place that we had to pay for but better safe than sorry.

Campers are parked very close to each other here and our neighbor has a Schnauser. I have never met a nice Schnauser so I barked to let him know I was here first, 

Not acceptable said Mom, and ok I'll keep quiet as long as he knows his place.

Mom says not all Schnauzers are bad she did know a nice one but he's in dog rainbow land with Buttons now.

Well, maybe so but the ones I know aren't good

It s now 9 am and we're hoping the rain will stop so we can explore the city and stay dry.

Ljubljana is the capital of independent Slovenia, which joined the European Union in 2004

Slovenian history from Google

Socialist period

Josip Broz Tito and Emperor Haile Selassie in Ljubljana in 1959
During the re-establishment of Yugoslavia in World War II, the first Slovenian republic, Federal Slovenia, was created and it became part of Federal Yugoslavia. It was a socialist state, but because of the Tito–Stalin split in 1948, economic and personal freedoms were much broader than in the Eastern Bloc countries. 

The late 1950s saw a policy of liberalization in the cultural sphere as well, and the unlimited border crossing into Western countries was allowed, both for Yugoslav citizens and for foreigners. In 1956, Josip Broz Tito, together with other leaders, founded the Non-Aligned Movement. Particularly in the 1950s, Slovenia's economy developed rapidly and was strongly industrialized. With further economic decentralization of Yugoslavia in 1965–66, Slovenia's domestic product was 2.5 times the average of Yugoslav republics. While being a Communist country, after the Tito–Stalin split Yugoslavia initiated a period of military neutrality and non-alignment. 

 it stopped raining now so we'll head into the city of Ljubljana

wet kisses you all , and Happy Sweden national day

Henry

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