hi if you're visiting Slovenia and 
trying to figure out what you need to do
where you need to go, things you don't
want to miss, this is the video for you
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you like this video. So I haven't
made videos in a while but I'll talk
more about that at the end of this video
This one is the start of a new series
that I'm doing on interviewing people
from certain countries or places that I
have been to who are also from that
place and just trying to provide helpful
tips for anyone that's visiting the
place so you don't have to make the same
mistakes that I did
and you can actually learn about the
place from a local. (Doris: like what?) we'll talk more
about that in a second, Doris. She just
laughs a lot. I don't I don't understand
why. Drink some coffee
Doris
hi 
hi 
say hi - hi
it's gonna be funny. I'm gonna include
that part.  what uh tell us about you
I'm a freshman at USC. ok. I'm from Slovenia as you already said. yeah.
I am almost 20
so getting
there 21. and and she plays the guitar. ok.
today we're gonna talk about
about if you're visiting Slovenia what
you need to do, where you need to go all
that good stuff
thankfully I have a local from Slovenia
with me who can correct me on my
pronunciations if nothing else about
Slovenia. 
(Doris: that's what I am here for)
that's one of the reasons she's here for. you're not supposed to look
at this like. I am NOT. yeah. so it's like
this will kinda be like a conversation but
also an interview so she's not allowed
to see the questions. first thing when
you go to Slovenia I think everyone
visits lake bled.  bled. oh wait is it
bled lake Bled
bled that's what I'm
talking about
that's that's your camera stop trying
steal my spotlight. You're
not gonna get it. Okay have you ever been
to lake bled. yes. How do you feel about it? I
think it's gorgeous. I think it's one of
the top places. In Slovenia? it's
very like touristy like but it's so beautiful
I don't think it's that crowded. it's no
that's exactly what I thought it's cuz
everyone that goes to Lake Bled says
that like you should go, or sorry,
Slovenia says you should go to Lake Bled
and I was expecting it to be like a sh**
show like Italy for the most part: crowded
people and tourists and people selling
selfie sticks, but it's not. okay
have you ever been to Lake Bohinj?  no
okay Did I say that right?
Bohinj (nodding)
so if you
read it in English you're gonna say
bohinj.  one thing you need to know about
everything in the Balkans is the Js
like are not pronounced. Just pretend
like they don't. It's ya. ya? like how is
there 2 Js, (Doris: you would write it with a "y" maybe) maybe like Daniella has like five
Js in there or something like that.
yeah. Your name doesn't have a J
right? 
No
okay but yeah yeah Ljulbljana I was
like LJUBL... whatever that was
We'll go to Ljubljana later. But okay
you've been to Bohinj or no? No. Okay
that's like actually my.. one of my
favorite places as anyone that follows
my Instagram would know by now. Quick
update I have an Instagram. I'm gonna
link that in the bio and talk more about
that later because I've made that last
nine months because I'm a basic bi***
now but yeah Bohinj was really like one
of the coolest things I've ever seen and
you know in Bled there's not a lot of
tourists. in Bohinj there was no one
it was just like literally me and like
three other people on the bridge there
so Bohinj is a lot prettier because I think
if my friend is right here, it is near
the Slovenian Alps and it's just
gorgeous and at one point when I went
there, there was this bridge that I just
went up and sat down on with my ice
cream and I was the only one there and I
was just chillin by myself to have my
ice cream and these two Israeli people
came in and they're like they saw me
taking pictures of everything and
they're like, "do you want us to take a
picture of you?" and I'm like, yeah sure
and then they took
like a terrible picture of me but that's
how cool it was, like that's how awesome
it was. It's like a really beautiful
place. I definitely
recommend going to lake Bohinj. but spelled bohinj
for a couple of days if you can. When I
was on the bus to Bohinj there were two
German women who were going staying at a
cabin or something like that for a
couple of days and I think that'd be
amazing because it's like it's not like
it's not crazy expensive like the
Switzerland's or anything like that and
you can actually have a great time there
chill, be one with nature. do your Zen
s*** or whatever you want to do and it's
it's really awesome place. I do want to
go back to Slovenia at some point soon
and if I do I'm definitely gonna spend
like at least a couple of days in Bohinj
because that was just awesome 
thing about getting to Bled and Bohinj: so if
you look at the map in Google Maps it
looks like Bohinj is on the other side of
the country from Ljubljana which is
probably where you'll be staying
because that's the capital, I think the
only real city over there but the thing
is Slovenia is a tiny ass country (Doris:it is) and
the other side of Slovenia is like two
hours away, so it is possible to actually um..
it is possible to do both bled and Bohinj
in one day. That's actually what I did. I
really rushed it. I really didn't get to
see that much of Bled and only got to see
a small part of Bohinj. Now if Bohinj was
the closer one then bled to Ljubljana, I
would recommend just going to Bohinj (and)
skipping Bled, even though Bled is
awesome
but since Bohinj is the furthest one
if the weather is good. Just make sure the
weather is good. It might be pretty
bad because it's probably not gonna be
as awesome if it's like pouring down
there but if it is good
try to go to bled for a little bit early
in the morning as early as you can then
on the same route actually Bled is on
the way back from Bohinj. You go another
hour and you can get to Bohinj and that's
honestly one of the prettiest things
I've ever seen in my life
You wanna talk? Cause I have been talking the whole time (laughs)
I have been waiting for questions 
no
you just you commentate.
I have never been to Bohinj though
yeah how do you
how do you feel about the Slovenian
countryside. I think it's probably the
most amazing one I mean it's not like
I've travelled a lot like you but just
as far as I heard yeah it's amazing
and as far as I've seen hmm
as far as you've heard it's amazing? 
like what do you mean?
You've lived in Slovenia for your whole life
Like (other people) comparing it to other countries, like noone was
as excited about them like Slovenia 
I mean other countrysides compared to
Slovenia. Slovenia is like
ridiculously underrated. I don't know how
people don't talk about Slovenia. 
Because they don't know where it is
that's like.. 
because of ignorant Americans
a big Wow Wow so Slovenia is actually
It's a country. you know. It exists
yes Slovenia is a country, it exists. You
probably know about it if you have at some
point...
It's not near Russia
also it's not it's not
it's also not Slovakia which is the
other one that people confuse it with
which I am... I made a video of Slovakia
which I'll post at some point before I die
yeah Slovenia is a country. You probably
know this already if you're watching
this video because I'm guessing
whoever's watching this video is in
Venice and they're trying to get to
Budapest and they're like what is this
country in the middle
oh it's Slovenia oh lewb la Llana
whatever that is but it's the most
underrated country I've been to at least
in Europe and it was amazing 
you know the best thing about going to Slovenia
was? I was getting breakfast from like
some street cart. There were like one or one
and a half euros thingies and I'm like
right after Venice where you can't like
freaking brush your teeth without
paying 5 euros. I was like, this is not right and then
I like stacked up on a bunch of
like breakfast rolls or whatever that
was. Not Burek and then I realized
the whole country is that cheap and I
was like ooooh sh**. Scored. OK.
but no Slovenia is awesome. I would have
definitely spent less time in Venice and
more time in Slovenia if I could but
that's just me. I'm not an old rich
person who can actually afford Venice
and go out to the bars. Slovenia is a
different story but we'll get to the
nightlife later. So now we're gonna talk a
little bit about the capital Ljubljana
which is probably where you're at and
have you been to Ljubljana? Yes. You
have. So Doris is actually not from
Ljubljana but how many times have you
been there? Do you have to go there to
like fly anywhere basically every time? I
fly from Italy usually. We only have one airport
in Ljubljana? that has like one gate
but that's bullshit there has to be more
than one gate
are you f***ig kidding me?I am not.
 how is that possible
there is one flight leaving at a time?
It's just like
gate and then.. one terminal? I mean yeah
yeah one gate is literally one plane
every two hours like oh yeah. I'm gonna
like save this for the bloopers
okay okay so one terminal 
I believe that. It was pretty
small. Ljubljana was also like.. Bled and
Bohinj or Bohin(j) was awesome but Ljubljana
was also just ridiculously pretty, like
really pretty like I mean not that I had
any expectations going in but I mean why
do you think it's pretty before I start
talking forever? I don't know just
because of the architecture I guess like
it's kind of like an old town but also
not and and just like I always go there
in December when it's like decorated and
pretty. Christmas. Why do you go there in
December? To see the lights. I don't know
It's pretty. So she's from
a part of Slovenia where they don't have
electricity yet so so it's a struggle
(that is not true) and and in life
okay what's the I call it preseren square
how do you pronounce it? Preserno terg
Was that square? pressure no Turk 
okay
the square in the middle of
Ljubljana downtown it's hard to miss
you'll know when you get there because
there you see all the street performers
like blowing bubbles and shit and you
know that's it but that's like a really (pretty)
place. I think that's like a really good
place to just see the sunset because
like you said the architecture is really
cool when the golden light reflects very
well off the pavement and all that other
stuff. Have you ever been to the castle
Ljubljana? No, Why not? Because you're not a tourist that's why.  I am not a tourist. Exactly
I always felt like I have so much time to
explore the city. Okay so yeah no I was I was
actually at Ljubljana castle and I never
travel with a phone so I got lost and
then I barely made it there like right
before the sunset time and they wouldn't
let anyone in because it was like, "We
stopped letting people in 15 minutes ago"
and so I just took some really cool
pictures though from like the bottom of the 
castle near that place and then
on the way down, it's like actually like
an uphill walk so if you're like me you
probably hate that part, but then on the
way down I like slipped on my ass and I
drop that camera like straight on the
ground and then but it's okay because
it's still recording. Hi,  but yeah but the
castle was really pretty you can see the
whole city kind of from sunset and I
think that's really cool because it is a
pretty city. It looks like Prague almost
but smaller and I honestly like Ljubljana
a lot more than Prague. I saw people
kayaking inside the city in the river
what's it called the Lube Lube 
Oh. They have these little boats where you can just pay for it and just go
ljubljanica.
Say that again
ljubljanica
ljubljanica?
Yes. ljubljanica. Okay yeah I
didn't do that
because you know I'm cheap but if you
want to do that you can definitely do
that. It looked really cool actually
but yeah I wouldn't do it but yeah if
you want to do it you can do it. Let's
see. Did you ever go to the.. I'm pronouncing
this wrong probably.. metelkova art
district? No. I don't think I did
did you hear about it? I didn't
know there was an art district. I know
what metelkova is. This is what I get
it's spelled I'll pronounce it the way
you would if you're reading English even
though I'm not a native English speaker
but
metelkova is how I would say it and I've
heard a lot about it cuz one of my
friends is from Ljubljana and she told me
about it
check it out but she wasn't there when I
was there and then another good friend
of mine from Germany said that was like
his favorite place to go and get coffee
I actually went there like 12 p.m. on a
weekday there's not really anything
happening and then I had to rush back to
get my bus and then on the way back it
was just crazy I lost my credit card I
had to go back to grocery store again and it
was like a nightmare almost missed my bus
I've heard a lot of good things about
metelkova art district but I actually
wasn't there at the right time. It was
really hot when I was there so
maybe go in the evening when it's like
quieter and people are actually chilling
over there. What do you have to say about
Ljubljana? it's great. Go visit Ljubljaba. Why?
 I don't know it's just like a good City to
go to you have
you can do anything basically it's the
capital so.. What do you mean you can do anything?
I mean you can do shopping or like I
mean this is where we usually go
shopping because there's.. No I am NOT,,
okay that's center place Preserno (square) what is
yeah that's like
like like LA.. Santa Monica.. like
that's what it felt like right? yeah
that's like the fancy people with their
fancy shopping bags. May be the cheaper version of the Grove? That actually felt like the Grove
that definitely felt like the Grove um
you have no idea what the Grove is unless
you're from LA it feels like a cheaper
version of a shopping mall in LA which I
wouldn't know because I've never bought 
**it anywhere except for this one shoe I
bought in LA three years ago. Did you like
visiting Ljubljana growing up? I didn't
visit it that often honestly. I started visiting it when..
when you do your shopping? yeah when I
had to go shopping or when I was
applying for college because I thought I
was gonna study in Ljubljana.  Wow you
thought you're going to university
Ljubljana? Yes. And what changed? I got into USC. okay Wow
no it was just  the opportunity of study
studying music in like a actual big
city. Are you also pre-med? No. Okay because
that would be like an interesting like
combination it would yeah but I thought
if I got the opportunity to study music
yeah I should just focus on that. Did you
or are there a lot of street musicians
in like Ljubljana? I didn't see a lot not
like as much as that like in LA. yeah I
didn't see any but they're like
definitely the bubble people which you
see in like every city in Europe. You know
back in the day
now I'm not this much that's my secret
which you can steal cuz if this'll never
materialize.  I used to see people perform
and make money and I'd be like I wish I
had talent. Then I saw the bubble people
and I'm like f*** I got that talent
I could totally make money off of that but yeah
now I'm trying to make a living
on youtube so please subscribe. Help me out (laughs)
OK. Have you ever gone out in Ljubljana? yes
I have. Okay. I mean my first like concert
yeah that was Green Day
oh wow. 
That was like 2 years ago I think.  but yeah
I didn't know they were still performing it's
been a while since wake me up when
September ends. Okay but.. but but yeah the
first time I actually like went out like
to to the bars yeah they took me to...... 
how do you spell that? a Pub
don't make me spell it you can just
write it on the video.  oh yeah okay sorry you have to tell
me how to actually spell it, because I'll be like for stuff but ok sorry. Which is just
like a normal bar but it's very cheap
for drinks so like if you're cheap
person as I am, go there for drinks. Yes
we're cheap people so if you want like
bougie drink advice you might want to
find another video for this. How much is
a beer in Ljubljana usually or.. it's
I think there it's like less than 2 euros.. one and a half euros?
But it's usually like around 2
what about your town. The town you're
from, what it's called again?
Velenje. Yeah like villains like
Velenje
Velenje okay. I feel like I know this
name. How much is a beer over there?
same thing yeah. So a beer is what.. like one
and a half Euros? how much is like a
mixed drink (I would say 2 but)
but a mixed drink. It's like from 3 to
5 (euros). Depends on where you go
yeah and euros based on 2019 January
conversion rate is like five euros it's
like five dollars and seventy cents or
something like that so it's not the
worst but yeah, beers are super cheap
did you ever go to a parliament pub? yeah
actually right after .... we went there
yeah oh that's where I was for like hours and hours and
hours. No I loved it till it closed. They
kicked us out basically. What I was
saying earlier is that you don't want to
do the pub crawl because based on my
experience from like the 40, 50 European
cities I've been to. Not European like
maybe 20, 30... is that the way
their business model works is that they
get a bunch of people like me who don't
know anyone in Ljubljana and they bring
you all together and they're like okay
we're gonna have an awesome time which
you probably will. To be fair, you will.
but then they take you to like the
crappiest bars in Ljubljana because no
one else goes there and those bars pay
them Commission for bringing so many
people to the pub crawls
so that's why we went on this place for
doing flip cups and stuff but the 20 of
us were literally the only people in the
first bar and then the second bar was I
can't even remember so I guess that's
how cool it was and then
no no not in a good way like I didn't
forget it in a good way like I didn't get
blackout drunk. I just don't remember it
it's not relevant. The third one was
Parliament which is where there were
really two actually four really cool
people in the pub crawl I was with and two of them I met earlier in the day in Bled
and this really young British couple but
except for that we just lost everyone
else and we met a bunch of slovenians
and we partied there till like 3 a.m. or
something I can't remember exactly what
time it was. It was a Thursday though and
I was leaving on a Friday and I made a
bunch of friends who kept telling me
like you should party with us tomorrow
like I want to but I have to go to
Budapest with my friends. That was really
awesome
I met this random guy on the streets and
then he was like, come with me
and I went got on a taxi with him went
to the outskirts of Ljublajana to a
Balkan club where they were playing like (Balkan music)
and it was weird as hell. There was like
some Slovenian celebrity there and like
it was weird like it was like old people
and very weird. Had to get a taxi back
Ljubljana is actually like the only place you can go
out. Really? During the weekdays. On weekdays?
yeah
Thursday's like ehhh
I mean it's the
only city that actually has something
going on, compared to everything else I think
Yeah. Did you go out in the
University area by any chance?
No did you ever go to Circus or .....?
that sounds Spanish so probably not
I went to like three or four
clubs I went to a couple of them and
then that was last one we went to I
think. I think I went out only one
night and then we came back to those
clubs and it was everything was closed
at 4:00 and we just.. went got on that
taxi with that dude and we left Ljubljana
it was a bunch of other strange people
so what's the beer that you recommend
for Ljubljana is like lashka? lashko
okay there's another one
Union which is I think pretty popular
Union. OOnion?
So it's like onion but OO
We just have a thing in Slovenia, We call Union
water and just Lasko the real beer Wow 
So if you're weak you can drink
Union but otherwise you drink Lasko.
So if you're weak you drink
OOnion spell like Union. If you're strong
show them your biceps because you
like that? if you're strong
like Doris and then you can
actually drink that shit
 Lasko? Lasko yeah she's a boxer
by the way. That's how
I met her
I was like hiring security for
my videos and on Craigslist I saw like
(Russian accent) "I'm from Slovenia I can protect you "
I don't know why I'm doing a Russian accent. You probably hate that
See this is where the.. ideas (about Slovenia being near Russia) come from
(Russian accent): "I have AK47" 
That was not her actually but that was
another old woman named Doris though 
I need to actually say you do boxing
without like making fun of you
How do I do this? Hey okay
a quick thing
so Doris actually is a boxer... well okay...
she hangs out with the boxing club. I
have never heard anyone say she's any
good at boxing uh I don't know like
maybe she'll knock me out by the end of the video
but I actually like honestly have no
idea if she's good at boxing but like she
boxes. I guess he's
about to find out,
hopefully not but so she's saying that
strong people drink Lasko, the beer
whatever so if you are a man who's
insecure about your masculinity you need
to drink Lasko. If you're like me you
already know you're weak as sh** just go
for Union, Ooonion orr whatever
that is and then and you'll be fine I
One very important thing. Everyone I
met in Slovenia spoke English like her
or like somewhere around that level
right. But if you meet like college students
yeah
okay I didn't meet a lot of old people
but uh it was a good thing about bars
going out anywhere near a university
area which I think all of downtown in
Slovenia or Ljubljana is that everyone
speaks amazing English
I found that
Melania Trump is not the
most.. she's a controversial
figure over there. Come on people don't even know
she she's from Slovenia, Now you know! 
Now you know! so I wouldn't
like I don't know.. so I have no
problem with Melania Trump but like
I just wouldn't bring that up.. yeah don't bring it up
yeah some people get defensive about it
and I don't know why but it just just just so you know
yeah people speak English and they're
really friendly because I think one of
my favorite things about like Ljubljana
the same thing that I love about places
like Krakow or or Belgrade or whatever
is that it's not a place that gets a lot
of tourists which is you know ridiculous
for Slovenia. For Belgrade yeah, I mean I love
Belgrade but I can see why it doesn't
get a lot of tourists
no Belgrade's awesome but like
It does get a lot of tourists
from Europe not from anywhere else
yeah f*** I can't hate on Belgrade my
friends will kill me. Oh yeah
yeah so the best thing about Slovenia in
general and Ljubljana especially is that
it's an awesome city that for some
reason is not as touristy or overcrowded
like its neighbors on both
sides like Budapest and Venice which is
just you would be mobbed any time of the
year there's no like offseason for those
places like there's always 40 American
Spring Breakers or college grads or stag
parties or whatever who made their way
to Ljubljana - by the way the English
stag parties they go everywhere but the
thing about Ljubljana is that because
not a lot of people go there, they
actually... the people are not sick of
tourists or foreign people i feel like
yeah I feel like maybe in Ljubljana there are
like used to tourists but in any other
place in Slovenia you go to there are like
very excited to meet someone else
so I was just like yes you're gonna make
friends
I wouldn't say they were very excited to
meet me.  No of course they were because
it's me but I can't say if it was
because I was foreign or it was just
just me you know like
did I tell you I
offered this woman a dollar for a
cigarette just like let's share and she
didn't even take my money like that
that's how charm works you know
internationally. Charm needs no language
but I do speak English. So did they
no the cool thing about Ljubljana
is that they're not sick of tourists it's
like if you go to Amsterdam or let me think of an example... not Paris because there
are too many people there but if you go
to another city that size that's that
touristy, a lot of the locals are
honestly just sick of annoying arrogant
tourists showing up and doing dumb shit
all the time. It's not like that in
Ljubljana. People are actually very open
like if you go there especially when I
was there someone from Bangladesh
they're like oh whoa what the f*** , we've
never seen anyone from Bangladesh. It's cool like
even if you're not from Bangladesh. You
could be from America or something like that
they're just pretty interested in
general about meeting places.. meeting
people from different places because
they don't get a lot of people whereas
in Amsterdam if you go to the clubs and
bars like they will just treat you
differently if you're not Dutch if
you're a tourist. So the word for excuse
me in Dutch it doesn't exist. They just
say sorry but they say "sorry (Dutch accent)" so I'd go
to the club, the bouncers and I was
staying with my friends in
Amsterdam for a while so I learned the
basics of Dutch and then like all these
other tourists would be like, "excuse me
excuse me" the bouncers would not give a
f** and I would be like "sorry (Dutch accent)" they're
like whoa what can I do for you?
do this? do that? okay yeah you can go out smoke
you guys stay inside (pointing to other folks). 
whatever you want. (back to me)
But no Ljubljana is pretty awesome
because they're not used to getting a
lot of annoying tourists so as long as
you're not annoying tourists you're
gonna be fine. You're not gonna be
subject to that stereotype
all right. Now to my favorite topic about Slovenia
the food
how do you feel about Slovenian food? 
it's way better than American
what is American food?
McDonald's?
Mcdonad's is f***ing awesome
but Balkan food for example is just
like THE THING in Slovenia
I mean it is technically the
Balkans right? yeah yeah we uh
so Balkan food is probably up there with
Mexican and and like middle-eastern food
as my favorite food in the world.
warning: if you're a vegan and you don't like you
don't like cheese or meat
it's gonna be
a struggle like like especially the milk
everything's got dairy in it everything
there's like a sh** tonne of cheese on
even the vegetarian stuff right there. If
you're a vegetarian you can find a lot
of good cheese stuff but um I'm pure
vegan that might be a struggle, 
if you're not (either)
well oh wow 
I mean there are some vegan places in Ljubljana that you can go to. But
not everywhere else
right if you go like to Crotaia,
Serbia and Bosnia even if you're gonna
tell them you're vegan they're just
gonna laugh at you they're like you
don't eat meat? what do you eat, grass?
2 things that are not acceptable is like
asking for a vegan option and asking for
a bar where people aren't smoking in
there I think Ljubljana is good about
that (not smoking) though yeah but no meat meat is a
huge thing in Slovenia and I I actually
like the meat very much and after this
we're supposed to go get some Balkan
food at this place in LA which is
supposed to serve Balkan food but it
doesn't say so in the description on
Google so let's hope it does but okay
let's cut to the main deal
Burek. What is Burek? yeah Burek
you just
have to try it like it's.. you have to
describe a little bit before.. I can't
what is it like it's like a greasy fast
food like a wrap or I don't know how you
put it like sort of a wrap it has it can
be with
either meat or potatoes or cheese or
anything wow.. so.. it's
sound more excited woman
we're talking about Burek WTF
I am excited. You just have to try
you don't even have to know what it's
made of
You just have to go for it. Yeah it was.. I had it at five am one morning
and I was like "WHAT IS THIS?"
It's the best food you can eat after... after like
partying. If you visit my town
so it's called Velenje. It exists yes. yes it's
not a farm. He thinks it is but he hasn't been there yet
my town has this Balkan place
Balkan food place
your town is a Balkan
place what are you talking about? 
True but it has this great cafe
yeah which is open almost like all night
like almost 24/7 so go there mm-hmm it's
it's gonna save your life it's gonna
make everything better. Burek is what I'm
getting? yeah
okay I don't know anything
except for Burek in Slovenia because I
think that's all I ate
so please educate people about the
diversity about cheese and meat yeah other Balkan food
yeah cevapcici
I had that okay that's also in Serbia okay
I didn't have that Slovenia so there's a
lot common between the former
Yugoslavian countries in terms of food
The word.. what "koala loopy" I was surprised
it was like it was one of the random
countries in the south I think like
Montenegro or like makedonia they say
koala Lupe I'm saying that right?
but like Serbia doesn't they say koala
I'm not sure what you're talking about. But anyways. We were talking about cevapcici
I've actually had that in Serbia but I
found that everything's a little bit
different in every country. It's probably
better to have it like in Serbia you
think so? Wow Maybe I don't I don't
really know but this is like where it
comes from from which Serbia Croatia and Bosnia
Slovenia just like adapted this
kinda food. We also have.. good job.. We also have Potica
which is the national Slovenian food
It's like a roll. Well I have no idea
what that is. What is it?  walnut roll
yeah it's good.
no it's just like pastry but it's a roll
you just you just have to try it 
it's good
say it again 
Potica --
Potica is like
national slovenian food that you also
need to try. It's sweet I think I might
have tried it for breakfast actually
because I tried a lot of bunch of stuff
that I couldn't pronounce really Cevapcici
I know because I tried that I was
spending too much time in Balkans. How much
would you say a proper meal costs like in a
cheap place in Slovenia and Ljubljana
then probably the cheapest one is like
from 4-5 euros for like a full meal
like a full meal maybe 10 every time I
want to see the camera I'm gonna get in
her face and then do it cause my camera just died
but yeah Cevapcici
we're talking about meals. Yeah how much
is like like a decent meal not like a
big-ass meal but like you know I want to
eat it's like a good pizza is like
around 7 but it's usually quite big so you can split it with someone
and I I remember
like having like..
in ljubljana, in downtown and I was out in
the watching the sunset near the castle
and I didn't have a phone and I got back
and this couple from from the states
they were like hey we're going to the
pub craw. Like shit I didn't have time to eat so
I run back and I was starving and the
Pub Crawl guy told me there's like pizza
over there and there was like like a
slice of pizza like literally like the
size of my thigh I want to say it and
that was like like one or two Euros or
sth like that, Yeah I got like two slices
of that for less than three or four I can't
remember. Street food is
really cheap so if you like Street food
like me you can get a lot of cheap stuff
it is so much cheaper than Italy. It
is like unbelievable that these two
countries share a border like. Is there
anything else you want to say about food
in Slovenia that people should
absolutely try except for Burek, Cevapcici and what's the national food
that you just mentioned?
Potica? Potica is all
you need to know I. Don't know what the
rest of it was is there anything else
you wanna mention? No just like if you go to like a fancy restaurant it's just like
normal European cuisie that you would get anywhere in Europe I don't know
like a normal
European cuisine is. It changes
like everywhere
A lot of Italian food. So
falafel that is normal European cuisine for me like on a
budget like that's usually how it works
I said fancy restaurants. Fancy okay okay
What's your favorite food in Slovenia? probably
Burek. Okay. That's what I get 
this is how we became friends
This is actually how we became friends
I think mentioned from the other side of
the room of fake boxers because I've
never seen them fight 
they say they are boxers. I see my roommates
show up with injuries all the time but yeah
I was like, "do you miss burek?" I think I
think that's what I said. And she was like what?
like her eyes lit up
It was not like that
Yeah we did talk about it
I miss Burek. I was just impressed that
he actually knows where Slovenia is
and he actually knew some Slovenian words
Did I? Yeah you did. Okay
you knew how to say hello I guess. I know how to
say thank you like that's about it. 
I think there was more
maybe maybe uh maybe I'll have to be
like in that state to like get my memory
back I feel like because that's when I
learned most of my Slovenian
no Slovenian is fu***** awesome. Ok
back to... oooh I asked you this before, so
moving on from food
real quick questions
what's your favorite place in Slovenia
like it doesn't have to be something
that tourists go to but what's your
favorite place? I guess I just have like
I spent a lot of time in like my
hometown there's like this lake. Velenje?
Velenje. Okay
it has like few lakes that's like at
the same spot and it's like very
beautiful and also has like a beach that
you can go to
you're like close to the sea right? no
you're not. I am now. Your family is. yeah yeah 
yeah but
I'm talking about my home town
which is not close to the sea okay
Is it close to the Alps? No
What is it close to? Maribor
What is that?
It's the 2nd largest city. Oh okay
I thought you have been there. No
It's also a very big town. Okay
but anyway so probably lakes there are
the best part of my town which is 
Is it like too cold like 90% of the year to
swim? no it's not and the water is like
20 degrees may be. hooooh
Celsius Celsius 20 degrees
Fahrenheit is like ice.
It's like 67 degrees farenheits. Something like that yeah
but you can actually
swim there without like.. yeah you can
actually swim there okay.. I wouldn't swim
in 20 degrees but  like I guess you can
It's like an actual beach
you know you know what they call a beach in
Iceland
You can go surfing and. in a lake? Yeah
What are you talking about? 
Who makes the waves in a lake?
No.. the water god?
Is it called? Not surfing, what's the
other thing
that has like no it's like.. kayaking? no it's like
when you have like a boat with a.. 
we're gonna talk about how you go surfing in a lake
yes I was
staying.. I was staying at Simbol hostel
which was not the most poppin hostel but
there are good hostels in Ljubljana that my friends have stayed at and
they're pretty cheap 
they range somewhere between $20 to 25
even in the peak season during May or June
when I was there
in Bled actually I heard there's a
hostel that's even cheaper I think it's
like 12 euros a night or something like
that so it's like less than $15 a night
so you can stay there for
Bohinj or Bohinj is how I pronounce it I don't
know if there are any hostels (there)
I'm not
entirely sure how that would work but
I'm sure if you like post around the
blogs or whatever in an Internet you can
find people that are also going  there or
you can find people at other hostels
in ljubljana where you can like figure out
how you're gonna split a cabin because
if you split a cabin it's like cheaper
than hostels, more secure, people are your
friends and all that 
excuse the background noise I don't know if you're..
if you're gonna get this because they
have mics on there.. hey Jordan what's up
what were we talking about
You were telling people where to stay
oh yeah okay so I drifted off so bad
so my itenerary that I suggest in Slovenia
is I'd say spend three days in Ljubljana
and three or four days in Bohinj. Is there
any other place that's as pretty as Bohinj or bled? yes
Where? so if I was traveling
to Slovenia? yeah 
If you have like one week to spend there
I would spend maybe two days in 
Ljubljana just because it's such a big
city yeah but like other spots are
smaller so then I would go to Maribor
mm-hmm Maribor
yeah second-biggest city
yeah 
okay
May be I would go there at a time
of like a festival or sth
There are festivals?
They have a lot of festivals
like what kind of? like mo**y festivals cause I can't say that?
I don't know, I have never been
I heard they are cool
So 2 days at Maribor. what else?
One day at Maribor, and then I
would go to Postojna .... which
is like a cave, the most famous cave
like in Slovenia, like it's the most
touristy place probably besides Ljubljana
like is Batman there?
why would I go to a cave?
No it's just very pretty. okay
A cave?
yes okay..
don't do that. It's like.. I'm gonna show you later
I'm gonna google this
and cut this out if it's shi*** yeah
I'd go to a...
Who'd go to a cave like unless they were swimming
in it or something okay what else yeah
and then
I'm very skeptical about your.. keep going
I would go to the seaside
There's like 10 miles of seaside
But it's pretty
There's this town called Piran which is very old
There is a Tartini square if you know who Tartini is
He is like a
He used to be a.. I mean he was.. he is a very famous.. what?
He was
He was a very famous Violinist
okay this is why people confuse it with
Russians. Violinsts are famous. Okay
shut up. Okay. so I would say go to
Ljubljana for three days, she says 2 but I
say three if you have a week but then I
would definitely say go to Bohinj for
two days like I usually I'm not a fan of
going somewhere for just one day because
that means you're not gonna or I'm not
gonna sleep peacefully for a single
night because someone's gonna kick me
out of the room at like 10:30 or 11:00
because I wake up late but.. there is just like a lot of places
that you have to visit. Like if you go in winter
in the snow you an go to .... or just..
Is that like
skiing or something like that? Yeah or like any skiiing resort in Slovenia
okay yeah I guess most of stuff I'm
saying so far is for the summer but for
the winter I've heard it's also a great place in
I just went in the summer. I didn't ski in Slovenia, no
anyway they're like a lot of good places 
and just like a lot of Lakes yeah
that are nice. How do you get from? Is it
easy to get from Ljubljana to Maribor
Yeah you just take a train
how long is that? it's like
1 hour and a half. it depends
oh yeah it's a small country. That makes sense
yeah so Maribor is apparently cool
especially cool during festivals so
there's a bunch of festivals there or is it
like just a few or what is it
I have no idea.
We're gonna skip Maribor completely in this interview
because we don't know why to go  there
just it's pretty. Maribor is really pretty.
Sounds like Marlboro but it's actually a
city. Mari-bor is how you say it 
Yeah. What else
let's see there's..
and then there's Bohinj, Bled and ..... cave
There's a cave. It's amazing
it has like a train. I will not repeat that 
Actually I have never been there
A cave with a train. Oh wow!
like a train 
Woooow
Still sounds not cool
And then you can go to the coast and
visit.. because they had a hostel in Koper
what is that? Koper
Koper is this town by the coast or something
okay and then you can just like spend
one day in Piran or just lik e you can
you can do
what's Piran? okay
you gotta explain
my friends here don't know what you're
talking about.
Neither do I to be honest
so you gotta explain
Piran is a real (pretty) town by the seaside
okay that sounds pretty so the
difference between that and like French
and Spanish the little towns by the
seaside you're not gonna like bleed
money when you're there probably yeah
it's
also like a very clean town and
just like.. Slovenia is clean in general
I like that yeah yeah it's not exactly
Budapest
that was interesting
assuming you have a
week, do two to three days in Ljubljana
do I'd say 2 days at least in Bohinj
and then she really says you should go
to Maribor because Mari-bor that's
really pretty.
The second-biggest city and if you have
time, this is a lot. Sounds like a lot
looks like a lot of a map but it's a
small country, go down to the beach to
Piran. Is that the town you said? it's
like really pretty clean town apparently
by the beach which shouldn't cost you
nearly as much as Venice or any of those
places in Italy.. that or Cinque Terre
Jesus Christ I spent more money there
in a day than I spent in Slovenia in like
4 days but yeah
that's what we would
recommend in terms of itinerary for a
week so if you do it in three days like
the same way I did I would honestly say
do almost exactly what I did is that
spend as much time as you can in
Ljubljana because there is a lot to see
in Ljubljana and go to... it's very hard to
do both Bled and bohinj in the same day...
Bohin(j) in the same day coz..  but it is
Bled is on the way to Bohinj and you
can get like a round trip pass for 20
euros and transportation in general is
super cheap in Ljubljana and the main
city of Ljubljana is so small I rarely
took transportation you can like walk
anywhere you want to for like 20-30
minutes or something like that. Like you
go through the park, oh you're out of the
city basically that's how it is
so you can do that 
you can
watch a lot of Ljubljana 
you can actually go see parts
of Bled you can go see Castle Bled
which is what I did and then I came down
I didn't go to the island in the middle
with the church, that looked really
pretty in Bled but then I went to Bohinj
and I got to spend a couple of hours
there I wasn't there for a really long
time but it was still really beautiful
it was worth seeing like if you have a
date I would definitely like recommend
seeing Bohinj for a little bit rather
than not seeing it. Sure
and I have no idea
what Maribor is like so you have to
trust Doris on that one. yeah.
But if you just
like countries that have hiking you
should just look it up. I'm pretty sure you're
gonna find a lot of those spaces like .....  
or just like other like
similar places like Bled and Bohinj so
last but not least
is what are some
phrases that would like help if you knew
in Slovenian going into Slovenia
Slovenia
koala Lupe is the first thing I
learned from this old man who was selling
me Burek
I still have no idea what that means
Kuala Lupe? wait fu**
thank you
very much? 
how do you say it?
hvala lepa!
oh my god
I thought you were saying like Guadupe
no no no no
How do you say it?
hvala lepa
I'm gonna totally cut that out
It's so embarrasing
okay Hvala okay
that's like Serbian what the fu**
yeah it is.  hvala
hvala lepa?
I said Lupe I think it's like that woman
the artist that confused me
you know what I'm
talking about Dua Lipa
that confused me.
Okay
thank you very much is  
thank you is hvala
same in like
literally almost every country except
for Budapest in that region
how do you
say thank you very much cuz I'm not
 hvala lepa.  hvala lepa
How do you say please?
prosim
prosim
ok that's actually also like 
say louder so I can hear it...  prosím
prosim
yes please is prosim and
how do you say sorry or excuse me
Oprostite
that is definitely like 
that is definitely Serbian like Oprostite
yeah I know
something like it sounded like a
prostitute because that's how I remember
it
That's how I remember it
That's why I haven't forgotten yet
Oprostite so excuse me or
sorry is Oprostite but you know that
word is not actually as important 
or you can just be like sorry or pardon
but you'd never need it you know
Cuz it's not like freakin crowded in
Slovenia like everywhere else..
you like... you need to know how to
like say De Sculpe in Mexico or
something like that you don't really
need that I don't think I've ever used that in
the Balkans while I was there. like excuse
me excuse me that
that is just not an issue
ever and everyone speaks great English
especially University students
yeah but
yeah any other Slovenian slang that
they should know,
No I think they are gonna be good
You think so? okay 
So that's it for tips for visiting
Slovenia and if you have any specific
questions about anything in Slovenia
comment on the video because I think
that's your best bet because other
slovenians probably more knowledgeable
Doris are gonna be watching and they
can help you out, but if we know the
answer we'll get back to you. I'll get
back to you if I know the answer if I
don't I'll message her and I don't know
if she'll get back to me but I'll
try my best (Doris: probably not)
I'm trying to make this
series here about a couple of the places
that I've been to in the last few years
and every video the twist is I'm gonna
have someone from that place or someone
who's lived in that place so we can get
like multiple perspectives on visiting a
place so I'm hoping this is gonna be
helpful to you if you're visiting
Slovenia. If it is do let me know
yeah I think that's it 
thank you for watching
the video
on a final note for those of
you who are returning subscribers, I am
actually working on real travel videos
it just takes a lot of time to edit and
I'm in grad school which takes up a lot
of my time so but I will definitely some
videos from Rome, Slovakia, Germany and a
bunch of places that I'm going to upload
as soon as I'm done
okay okay Doris
we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this
the last time. 
I just don't know how to end it. I had
a thing I used to say I just
forgot what it was 
it feels like weird without it
Alright we got this
(Doris: I am hungry)
okay so thank you for watching
Doris is fu**in hungry so we have to go
eat right now at a Balkan restaurant in
LA which is like not even close to here
but yeah like that video if you liked it
subscribe if you want to see more I'll
see you guys next time with the next
video
That's it
yay!
hello my friends
okay yeah so we're
assuming some people actually watch my
videos and come back to watch those videos 
at some point this is gonna
happen okay
hey subscribers I know there's not a lot
of you here but to those of you who are back,
Welcome back
sorry I've been gone for nine
months I was actually traveling for five
of those months but I did shoot a lot of
videos like I said I would but I don't
know why I'm saying all this. This is supposed
to be about Slovenia okay
let's start again
Cevapcici 
(roommate in background: What's up h*es?)
Eyy no cussing this is like a
family-friendly video right here
it's live
No I'm fu**ing with you
like I need to put some
serious content in here at some point
wow you're like... that's what it was
you're spilling sh** on my copy. 
What?
just like flew out
of your (mug). No it didn't
Yes where do you think that orange juice came
from? Not me
she's drinking orange juice
right here cuz that's what freshmen do
at USC yeah yeah
let's do this again
with that mentioning orange juice in there
all right Doris
tell us about yourself
hold on okay
yeah, I will
Doris tell us
about yourself
we're gonna have to keep doing this
let's try it like a diff..
I don't know how to like do this. Maybe I
should just like to do an intro uh it's
my friend Doris
she is not as old as her name sounds 
I promise you that okay I
can't be mean I can't. it's my friend
Doris she plays guitar and does cool
shit and she's from Slovenia which is
one of my favorite countries which is
why she's blessed enough to be on my
porch today recording this video she's
so excited that she just can't stop
laughing for like the last hour though
but yeah that's enough about her
Hey Doris. 
Hi
God can you not do that... howdy!
I don't understand why Doris wants to be on film
like in the middle of campus I think
it's like preparation for when she's
celebrity right?
Today we are here with Doris Burke from the NBA
and we have our Slovenian expert doris here with us
hi Hey
you guys wanna say something about her? like
yeah yeah yeah hold up hold up
Oh I don't know who she is but 
from the looks of it she looks like a sweet girl and
like her ac/dc shirt. No the fit
is FIRE
No go down to the boots
You can tell she's really hip
That's all I have to say
Ok
thank you for the commentary
