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Old town view from the castle.
Celje (Slovenia)
Prešernova Ulica (Celje, Slovenia)
The Virgin Mary's Assumption Church (Celje,Si)country comforts
Though Celje has its own charms, try and enjoy the countryside around it. I would probably have never gone to Celje, I’d never read anything about it and it wasn’t on any must see list I’d scribbled over the years, but as chance would have it, I became friends with a VT member from the often snubbed city. On our travels east, I stopped in to see the castle and town, visit her family, have some home cooked meals, and pick some grapes. Did I say, pick some grapes? Yeah, I was on vacation, the window of good weather was looking more closed every day, but sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. When you rely on people and they show you good hospitality, basically treat you like family, sometimes you have to chip in and help as any family member would. We’d had a great day in the white wine region the day before and the weather was perfect. All I could think about was getting back into the mountains, for perhaps my last hike of the season, but as chance would have it, Tanja’s parents were set to do their annual harvesting of the grapes they grew all summer. She had the older car and it was enlisted to cart the potentially staining precursors of wine back to the house to be “squashed.” Okay, I wasn’t super happy to be giving up perhaps my last sunny day for manual labor, but I was assured, it was not so nice in the mountains of the west as on the sunny eastern side of the country. (continued below)
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