Trnovo

Sometimes I have a chance to drive back home by bus. Yesterday I hopped on a bicycle first because I wanted to find a hidden cache on my way back home. Trnovo is a part of Ljubljana that is also famous for its church where Slovenian poet France Prešeren fell for a girl who didn't care for him. Or maybe she did, who knows, but her father was surely not impressed by Prešeren's poems dedicated to Julija. There's a bridge near the church that is supposedly the only bridge on which trees grow. I am not sure that this is true today but it was so for many years.

The church is also connected to my life because I was baptized in it. Interesting that my mom can't remember when this was. By the age of 12 I was getting my religious education there. Then one day I resisted and didn't want to go there anymore. I didn't like the nuns, they were too strict and grumpy. I pass by this district almost every day on my way to work and back home. I rarely stop. So, yesterday in the afternoon I found another treasure by the church, and inside the cache was a coin (Hungarian forints) with a flower. Lovely.

Camouflage

I've been on a treasure hunt again. It is fun and I can hardly wait that it gets a little bit warmer when the hunt will be more pleasant. At least for me. It's not only the final "treasure" that counts, there are stories behind most of them and nice places to visit, too. A few nice treasures are waiting for me in Ljubljana and I might write a post or two about what I will see.

I picked my last treasure yesterday. It was funny to observe one more Geocacher logging his visit into a logbook. A few minutes later I tried to be invisible for other people passing by. So, this photo was taken when I was retrieving the treasure from its spot: I hope to find out how old is that medieval looking building on a hill, and I still wonder if it was really necessary to build that plain and boring yellow building on the left side of this photo. And yes, we have a rabbit in the city center, although it is only drawn on one of the walls. It would be a good clue for a treasure. At least until it is there.