BTC City, Ljubljana

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BTC City is basically a huge area to the east of the city centre where you can buy practically everything from clothes to cars, from garden furniture to fruit and veg (there's dozens of stalls here). If you're after clothes then this is the place to come. Firstly there's Emporium which houses the upper end/fashion shops such as benetton, diesel, dorothy perkins, helly hansen, hugo boss, lacoste, levi's, polo ralph lauren, top man/shop etc. Then there's Dvorama A which houses 190 shops on 2 floors. Be careful in here as you can get disorientated. Then there's City Park which is a new shopping centre mall with 89 shops. I came here late one afternoon and stayed till about 8pm when I headed into Atlantis waterpark which is also on the site. It makes for a great evening out.

BTC: the place to be for shopping. These are two huge shoppingmalls just outside the citycentre. You can go there by bus.

There are plenty of shops selling clothes.
And have you ever seen a supermarket with 30 cashdesks?

The BTC on the outskirts of the city just beggars belief. It really is a little city filled with giant warehouse like shops, selling absolutely everything. It's a capitalist paradise, only the locals still haven't quite grasped the concept in spirit, even if they've captured the essence in the shape of suburb of super shops. Rather than trying to bully me into buying the most expensive, most profitable item they could, the shop assistants seemed genuinely keen to persuade me to buy the cheaper, better value versions of the same thing. I wasn't completely convinced, but basing my instincts on previous interactions with Slovenians, I decided to trust them, and they were spot on every single time.

We came shopping here several times, just due to the sheer convenience of it when you have a car. It's easily accessed from the ring road around Ljubljana, and there's plenty of places to park. The shops sell absolutely everything, and the prices are pretty good. We stocked up on electronics, clothes, DVDs, and drinks, but there was a whole lot more besides. I barely got a glimpse of all of it, as the huge shops stretched out down dozens of streets as far as the eye could see.