Slovenia Travel Blogs

bike trip around the town
Jul 30, 2008 (47 photos)

POLSKI: Poprzedniego wieczoru znalezlismy (dobra, Marcin znalazl) hostel Tabor, w ktorym nocowalismy. Byl drozszy, niz w innych miastach europejskich - 17 Euro/os. w pokoju czteroosobowym. Z autostrady mozna dojsc na skroty do osiedla domkow (ok. 1km) ...

Beautiful Fall Colors at Slovenia's lakes
Oct 14, 2007 (48 photos)

... close.  As an overall impression we were pleasantly surprised by how comfortable the countries of the former Yugoslavia felt.  Slovenia and Croatia, especially, are used to tourists and are very easy if you are willing to stay in people's homes ...

Lake Bled
Sep 2, 2007 (15 photos)

... to move my entire body to look over my shoulder ever since. Stupid neck. Hopefully won't last too long. That's all from Slovenia. We stayed in Croatia longer than we expected so little Slovenia only gets 4 days. We are heading towards Vienna - Austria, ...

To the Hungarian Border
Apr 12, 2004 (6 photos)

I left Ljubljana on Saturday 10th April, with a little bit of a hangover.I headed north out of the city on a really good cycle path. Once again I was following quiet roads through little hamlets. My route today took me down the Sava River valley. Dull ...

Gorgeous Vintgar Gorge
Aug 17, 2007 (7 photos)

A popular thing to do when in Bled is to take a walk to the Vintgar gorge, which is about 3km north of the town.  Friday turned out to be a little cloudy, so it was perfect weather for the walk.  The walk up was fab, really peaceful and it took ...

Back to Ljubljana
Aug 18, 2007 (2 photos)

... have liked to take a trip to the other lake in the area, Bohinj, but there just wasn't time in the end.  I think Slovenia has much more on offer than I had a chance to see this time round.... Anyways, Saturday I left Bled to head back to Ljubljana ...

I spent the night in jail..
Nov 16, 2005 (4 photos)

see next entry..

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
Nov 22, 2005 (4 photos)

Landing in Ljublana we happily managed to grab a train and then on arriving into Lake Bled found the train station was several kilometres out of town, and we had just missed the bus.. it was pretty dark (although only about 8pm) and snowing but we set off ...

Day 2 in Ljubljana
Aug 14, 2007 (7 photos)

... .  However, the big selling point are the views over the city and on a clear day you can actually see over a third of Slovenia, well that is if you pay the €3.30 to get up the tower, which is definately worth it.  The castle grounds were so ...

The End of Eastern Europe
Aug 25, 2006 (35 photos)

... from the hostel -- the first bar we went to was a binge-drinkin, reefer-smokin, porn-watchin dive, certainly a welcome to Slovenia moment straight out of a tourist brochure). That being said, there is something to the town that makes it a nice draw and a ...

Bled, Slovenia
Mar 16, 2006 (7 photos)

... . In all, the drive from Salzburg took about 2.5 hours. I think the drive cost us about 25 euros in tolls. When going into Slovenia, one of the immigration officers let us know that he was not Pro-United States and tried to scare us a bit. It had Laura ...

Lovely Ljubljana
Aug 13, 2007 (4 photos)

... the idea!!  So that was a great experience for me anyway!  We crossed the Croatian border, and I was into Slovenia.  My first impressions were very favourable - it looked so pretty and picturesque, lots of greenery and mountains.  ...

Spring In Slovenia.
Apr 4, 2004 (10 photos)

... the lack of traffic. I paused at the first petrol station I came across long enough to buy a bottle of water and a map of Slovenia. I have no currency yet so I used the credit card. I'm also not sure of the exchange rate. The signposts are a bit vague, ...

Ljubljana
Apr 7, 2004 (7 photos)

Entering Lubljana all I could think of was "Hot shower, hot shower." I thought I would never get to the city centre, but of course you always get there in the end. I got a bit of a fright in the tourist office when I was told that all the hostels, ...

All is quiet on New Year's Day
Jan 2, 2008

I think maybe when U2 wrote that song they may have been in Ljubljana. Basically everything was closed. Museums, galleries, shops - the streets were deserted. So what to do on such a quiet day? Jess had the bright idea that the movies would be good and ...

Ljubljana Castle
Dec 30, 2007 (8 photos)

The Castle at Ljubljana floats over the city like a watchful guardian. From every angle around the old town it is visible. Today it was visible through swirling mists, seeming mysterious and inviting. Today we would investigate it further. First though ...

New Year's Eve
Jan 1, 2008

One of the reasons I had chosen Hostel Celica was that we would be in a more interesting location for Cameron and Jean on New Year's Eve. Sure enough, the hostel was having a NYE party with cheap drinks, all invited. Jess and I planned to go to the ...

Circus maximus
Dec 31, 2007 (2 photos)

... closed. After a while I resorted to ringing the tourist information centre and they confirmed that films are not dubbed in Slovenia (that was promising), but that the cinemas in the centre would be closed today. Grrr. As we walked and progressively got ...

Now That's A Big Fish..
Jun 17, 2006 (16 photos)

... that has been erected. Well that's about it for Bled. A wonderful spot certainly worth checking out if you're ever in the neighbourhood. Hope all is well in your neck of the woods. Net pod, Ljbljana - Slovenia. Muchos love, Nath and Kat.

Lazy in Ljubljana
Sep 27, 2005

Although this place is impossible to spell (it has taken me the entire 3 days to get it right!) Ljubljana is a great place - really little (maybe only 250,000 bods) but it is a real student place, lots of young people, cafes, people riding old bikes, a ...

From busy Italy to peaceful Slovenia
May 17, 2008 (10 photos)

... using the tourist map. Italy was short 'n' fast but worth it to see friends, eat tasty food and enjoy some fantastic cities. Slovenia on the other hand is so far much more peaceful and has been a welcome break. The last week have been spent in ...

Lake Bled
Aug 4, 2007 (5 photos)

Lake Bled is not far from Ljubljana, but our bus got stuck in traffic so we had plenty of time to admire the road works! Considering that Bled is a small town, we spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to find Pension Berc.  We had the ...

Cells, caves and groping an old man.
Nov 20, 2005 (2 photos)

We stopped in Lljublana (no i cant spell it) and stayed in a hostel that used to be a military prison and so i managed to lock adrian in a cell, somehow he escaped. THere was about 20 rooms that were cells and each had been designed by an artist, so each ...

Running off a mountain with a man on my back!
Aug 17, 2007 (15 photos)

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Tjraveljing to Ljubljana - When in Doubt, add J's.
May 13, 2008 (8 photos)

... train station, as we were heading to Ljubljana (loo-be-yan-na or as Brian pronounces it loo-ju-bee-jan-na) in Slovenia this morning..   At the station, none of the departure details had Ljubljana written on it, so we had to double check ...

Fall Vacation, Part 2 - Ljubljana and the Karst
Oct 4, 2007 (47 photos)

... and wandered around town some more. After 2 days in Ljubljana it was time to go move on to the Karst region of Slovenia. This region is full of cave systems, the largest of which are the Skocjan Caves. Our Rick Steves' guidebook perfectly describes ...

Vintgar Gorge-ous...
May 14, 2008 (12 photos)

<Brian's brief chronological list of "highlights" (and of whinging)>   - Traveled back to Bled... the pension where we were staying provided bikes so we rode to Vintgar Gorge. The bike ride went for over an hour going uphill, we were ...

Opatija to Ljubljana
Dec 29, 2007 (1 photos)

... people (Maggie, Georgie and me) and just glanced at Cameron, Jean and Jess's European passports. As we headed into Slovenia we noticed that both the landscape and the architecture changed. Craggy rocks gave way to rich looking farmland. Houses appeared ...

Whoawoweewo
Jun 25, 2007 (16 photos)

... - the pictures really tell the whole picture for this place. (C) THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - How in the WORLD was Slovenia a part of Yugoslavia?  It must have driven these people crazy to share their nation with the other Balkan peoples. Lake Bled ...

Lake Bohinj
Aug 17, 2007

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