Every time we come to Ljubljana it pores, I mean rivers are flooding levels of poring. We had thought of staying in our campground in Italy today. But last night it rained so hard it knocked out the electricity. When we got up in the morning the very nice owner delivered us a bag of bread and helped us get the electricity going again, but then informed us that the Po River we were parked next to was supposed to flood a lot of the campground over the next 24 hours so we decided to move on.
I checked the weather for the area and it looked like we had a 4 or 5 hour window to move between down pours so we quickly packed up thanked Rico the owner and headed for a town just in Slovenia which had a promising looking campground to wait out the storm. The 4 or 5 hour widow between rain didn’t pan out and while it didn’t rain the whole way we had a lot of rain and one down pour that had traffic down to about 40 miles per hour as everyone tried to see thru the wall of water falling to the ground.
We crossed into Slovenia and went from a Latin based language that we can often decipher to a Slavic language that while written in Roman letters appears to us to be nearly unpronounceable i.e Ljubljana or Cska. We are now completely illiterate. The only good thing is the young people here are taught English from a very young age and are not shy to use it, so if we are really struggling we just look for some one who looks under 30 and ask them for help.
The other thing that is interesting is we have gone from what Americans would consider to be European sirens on emergency vehicles back to the sirens we are used to at home, American sirens are for some reason favored in the old Communist countries of Europe. This is both part of the fun and part of the challenge of traveling in Europe.
Enroute we decided to switch our destination to a campground in the capitol city of Ljubljana so we could take a nice warm shower before hunkering down for the day. Last time we were at this campground the Sava River was at flood stage, this time it looks a little bit less threatening but still pushing flood stage.