We started the day with a walk along the river in Ljubljana, there was a Sunday market with lots of interesting knick knacks for sale, a bit different and much more interesting than the ones back home.
From there we headed off to our planned trip to the Lipizzaner Stud Farm in Lipica, the oldest stud farm in the world and where the Lippizaner horses are bred for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.
The grounds are quite large but the farm itself seemed quite tired, the paddocks were not in good order and the stables not kept as well as you would expect. The indoor school and the show seemed quite amateurish compared with the one in Vienna, maybe this is to be expected as it is the breeding and early training centre from which the top horses are sent through to Vienna. If you are in the area it's worth seeing but I wouldn't recommend making a special trip to Slovenia to see it.
Our stopover for the night was in Trieste, Italy which is very close by. Trieste is a seaport with the largest square in Europe that opens to the sea. The buildings around the square are architecturally beautiful and ornate but the square itself was very quiet, maybe because it was a Sunday evening.
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