Major snow experience in Maribor, Slovenia.

Assalamualaikum semua,

How has everything been for you? Semua sihat ke? Hari ni I nak kongsi sikit pengalaman about my recent trip pergi sebuah negeri dalam negara yang bersebelahan dengan Austria, that is Maribor in Slovenia. I never knew the existence of this place only until I get here, so I paham kalau korang pun tak penah dengar nama negeri Maribor tu. haha. :p

Maribor ni dekat je dengan Graz, lebih kurang 70 km je kalau naik kereta. Tapi kitorang pi naik train, so it took us around 90 minutes to reach there. Nak dijadikan cerita, time tu lah jugak snow mula turun kat kawasan central europe, hambek kau, berjalan la dalam cuaca sejuk beku menggigil-gigil tu. Average temperture semua di bawah paras beku. Nangesssss! T___T

Pagi-pagi naik train pukul 8am. Temperature was -1 degrees.
View pun tak nampak sebab terlampau foggy.

Sepanjang jalan dalam train tu dok excited tengok kiri kanan memutih je semua benda covered dengan snow. Memang la seronok kan sebab dok dalam train ada heater. Sekali bila dah sampai sana, and we have to actually walk on (sometimes inside) the snow, perasaan dia hazab nak mampoihhh! Seriously, snow might look beautiful in your eyes, but in reality, unless if you are walking in a proper snow gear, they are horribly cold!

View di sepanjang perjalanan. Cantik kan?

Dah sampai station Maribor. Thick snow on the ground menandakan malam sebelumnya snowing quite heavily.

I walked like this most of the time around the city. Tengok bawah je tak pandang depan.
Kena extra careful sebab sangat-sangat licin kalau jalan atas snow mula mengeras jadi ais..

Winter sonata sangat ni. :p

You won't see colours around you. Just black for the road or white for the snow.

But it's okay, anggap sebagai cabaran, kitorang pun redahhh je menapak keliling Maribor tu walaupun gigil-gigil sejuk macam ayam dalam peti beku. kehkehkeh. Our first destination is to the largest park in the city called Mestni Park. Sebelum tu dah siap bawak bekal konon plan nak picnic dekat situ. Nama pun taman kan? Dah siap berangan kalau picnic mesti la best. Berbunga-bunga hati nak pi makan kat taman sebab perut pun dah lapaq.

Excited nampak papan tanda ke Mestni Park. nak picnic kononnya.

Sekali bila dah sampai kat taman, we went like, "Where on earth should we have our picnic, baby? This place is alllll covered with freaking ice!!" Huwaaaaaa!! There goes our angan-angan untuk berpicnic. But we had so much fun taking photos and playing in the snow instead. Lepas tu jumpa satu kolam itik yang boleh tahan cantik, tengok ada bench kat situ, bukak bekal yang memangnya dah sejuk pun, kitorang pun makan sandwich bertatahkan snow yang turun. T___T

Mestni Park, Maribor, Slovenia.
25 January 2014

Duckpond di Mestni Park. I bet the water must be freezing because the other half of the pond was covered with ice on the top.

Ain't this white building look cute?
Matching je dengan snow yang putih tu. :)

Goodbye Mestni Park.
We surely had a lot of fun experiencing snow here. :)

Lepas dah alas perut sikit, kitorang sambung jalan sampai kat City Centre. Masa tu tengok dah ramai orang keluar bawak family jalan-jalan. Ada yang bawak anak ice skating, lepak minum coffee under sunlight, and ada jugak memang dah pakai proper snow gear bawak anak main guling-guling dalam snow. I think that's the most interesting part of my trip here, sebab dapat tengok macam mana orang-orang dekat situ spend the weekend with their family.

Ada Maribor Museum dekat sini. But errr, you know I'm not really into museum.
Plus semuanya dalam bahasa Slovene, how could I understand. Alasan. :p

Ice skating park for kids. 2 Euro per entry.

Look at how their people enjoy the sunlight at our back.
Sejuk-sejuk ni kena matahari adalah perkara yang terindah. hahaha. :p

They have plenty of cute stalls like this around the city.

Restaurant macam ni pun ada banyak. Simple tapi comel gila kan?

We walked around the city until noon, then we decided to go to the other part of the city where we need to walk on a bridge across Drava River. Mula-mula je nampak sungai tu, I jadi jakun jap tengok pemandangan yang sangat-sangat cantik di sepanjang sungai. Omg, tak pernah seumur hidup I bermimpi untuk berpeluang sampai ke tempat macam ni, but here I am, witnessing the beauty of God's creation at a very strange place. I really need to express my greatest gratitude to the Almighty for this chance. :)

The river, the snow, the swan. Perfect!
Nampak tak hidung merah macam rudolph?? hahaha.

One of the bridges across Drava River.

See, I never got enough of the bridge. Cantik sangat1

Water tower. Antara tourist attraction jugak la kat sini.

Our final destination was a huge shopping mall called Europark. Solat and makan dekat situ siap-siap sementara nak tunggu train balik Graz malam tu. Kaki pun dah lenguh gila sebab banyak berjalan dalam heels boots. They are comfortable to cover my feet from the cold, but they are not made for a lottttt of walking. So you know what happen to me in the end?? Haku berjalan keliling shopping mall sampai la ke train station pakai selipar jepun. kahkahkah. 

Memang orang tengok atas bawah atas bawah, tapi ada aku kesahhhh??? Dah la sepanjang satu hari suntuk dekat situ orang memang tengok macam alien sebab satu-satunya manusia bertudung, pastu ditambah pulak dengan pakai selipar jepun dalam cuaca sejuk nak mampoihh tu, mana la orang tak tengok pelik. hahaha. But I don't mind, as long as I am comfortable in it, I am okay with it!

The end of our journey. Nampak tak selipar jepun ijau tu?? :p

Kitorang berjalan ke train station untuk catch train balik pukul 7.40pm. Satu lagi hazab nak kena tempuh sebab temperature masa tu -5 degrees celcius. Sejuk gilaaaaaa hoihhhh. Bernafas pun keluaq asap dari mulut, kalau bercakap apatah lagi. Dah macam naga dah berkepul-kepul asap keluaq dari mulut. hahaha. Bila train sampai sampai rasa lega gila sebab dok kat dalam heater. Alhamdulillah, tamat perjalanan yang sangat bermakna untuk hari ni. :)

Apparently the nightmare didn't stop there. 

We were greeted by the same scale of cold temperature when we reach Graz. 

Ohhh great!! 

The cold weather is killing me here! 

T__T