Trieste
Trieste is an Italian town that has it's street signs in Slovenian and Italian and has gone back and forth between being a part of the Yugoslavian countries and Italy.
It's in a beautiful setting on the Adriatic coast and we were here mainly because the cheapest flight from Paris to "somewhere near Croatia" was to Trieste.
Our plan was to catch the steepest tram in Europe up to a small village in the mountains (villa Opicina) and then get a taxi across the border into the first town of Slovenia (Sežana) where we'd catch a train to Ljubljana. The problem is that the Italians aren't known for doing anything on time and they'd been renovating the tram. It was scheduled to open in 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and the very day in 2014 that we'd be there. As soon as we arrived I went to the tram stop and saw it running so we went for lunch. After lunch it was out of service again so we took a bus to Villa Opicina and a taxi drove us all the way to Ljubljana for $80.
Lunch was good but the beer named Forst was best.
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