Last week my older son Toni and I visited Maribor, second
biggest town in Slovenia. To be more specific, I took him for a trial with FC
Maribor. Although I've passed through this town many times on my way to Graz or
Austrian Alps, this was first time that I strolled through the old part of town
or along the river Drava. Maribor is pretty similar to towns in Austria and the
rest of Central Europe but then again it has a personal charm. Narrow streets
surrounded with old houses, vinyards above the town, Drava river that washed
the shore, beautiful churches...We were lucky because we happened to be in
Maribor on November 11, St. Martin's Day which is the favorite day a year of
the people here. The main square was crowded with lots of people drinking beers
or wine and eating sausages and enjoying live music and good vibrations were
floating around.
Thanks to our friends Iva and Tomaž, Maribor became not just
the unimportant place near highway but definitely a must stop by point in the
future.