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Country #66: Slovenia

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I know I am not even half-way through the Netherlands Chronicles, but I just returned from the awkwardly-named, yet grandly beautiful city of Ljubljana and felt the urgent need to share some photos. Of the multitude of "new Pragues" being touted about, this, to me, is the closest to the real thing. It is has got that awe-inspiring architecture combined with a vibrant, anything-can-happen energy that helped turn Prague into the Eastern European travel destination. The good news is that the mega-bus crowds and the British stag parties haven't figured it out yet. Lucky for us, because we were actually able to get three nights at the Celica Hostel , which is housed in a former military prison. Each cell has been "re-interpreted" by a different group of artists (you can see them all on the website...we had cells 113, 105 and m...