After my last post on Ljubljiana, I had an did the boat tour of the city and then had an ice cream sunday for dinner. Here is what I learned on the boat tour:
* in the middle ages, it was thought that water was bad for the skin so people stopped washing, which put the washing houses out of business and also caused disease all over Europe.
* the town square is not a square any more -- it is a wide street with parking....
* in the 15th C, the jews were forced out of Ljub by the city government. Now there are about 200 jews in Slovenia, and most people are roman catholic.
* Ljubljiana means flood in latin. Now the marshes are drained but the city originally was placed on river marshes.
* there is an open air library by the side of the river where anyone can go an read a book. it's a new project (started last year), and very cute.
* the Tripple Bridge is the only bridge in the world with trees growing on it. (is this true? I remember Grayson's friend Chris Kent putting trees on the Bay Bridge as one design idea.)
* the oldest known wheel was found in the marshes outside Ljub.
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