Piran, Slovenia Travel Blogs

Piran
Nov 21, 2005 (3 photos)

... amongst those streets and then grabbed a bus back to Koper to try and get to Bled. Timetables dont seem to mean much in Slovenia so after waiting for a non existent train we caught a bus back to the Lljublana - via everywhere else we had already been! But ...

Piran
Aug 29, 2006 (3 photos)

... walk back to Piran. The trip to and around Portoroz only takes three hours so I have the whole afternoon to kill in Piran. I'm a bit tired of not speaking a single word of Slovene so I enlist the hostel receptionist to teach me some essential phrases in ...

London -> Trieste -> Piran
Aug 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... of me just to be sure that there is no invisible glass shield between me and the guy eagerly staring back at me. "SLOVENIA!! SLOVENIAN MONEY!!" "Oh, righto, yes. Sorry, I'm having trouble hearing today." I start to feel guilty now for having raised my ...

25% Complete
Jul 18, 2008

... Leffe though. He just completed his own 1 year trip around the world last November. This time he was a short 10 day holiday through Slovenia. We got along right off the bat and talked for about 90 minutes. He told me all about his RTW trip as well as how ...

Last Baltic Adventure...for this trip
Aug 5, 2006 (7 photos)

... people did not want this. "The Serbs are fine... " he continued ... "the government cannot be trusted." (Slovenian= Slovenia; Serbia=Serbs). The Slovenian countryside... well, we visited during the country's biggest storm of the year, so we kept to ...

Last day in Slovenia
Jul 19, 2008

The weather was great today. I spent the whole day by the water and started reading a new book called Banco. I have been meaning to read this book ever since I took my trip to South East Asia in 2002. I read a book called Papillon (a true story) on that ...

Piran
Oct 19, 2006 (2 photos)

Best seafood meal ever!

Pretty but crowded
Jun 25, 2006 (4 photos)

Piran is a pretty little town on the very edge of Slovenia. Literally - it seems to be almost spilling down a hill into the sea. There's not much to the place, but it was a good day trip from Koper. I just spent my time ambling around the narrow, winding ...

Loving it but hate it, either way we can't get out
May 17, 2009 (3 photos)

... lying), we arrived in Piran early in the afternoon after a three hour bus ride from Ljubljana, that took us along Slovenia's Adriatic coast with some beautiful landscape. We where looking forward to coming to Piran just to relax on the ...

Tinges of Venice
Jun 9, 2007 (14 photos)

... north is the almost equally popular town of Izola and its bigger, more industrial neighbor, Koper. Considering the miniscule slice of seaside Slovenia has, they've packed a fair bit in here. It's all very easy on the eye, but frankly there isn't a whole ...

A long walk before dinner
Jul 24, 2006 (10 photos)

... the nudist beach and 20 minutes arrived. All we could find was bars and an expensive restaurant. So we walked all the way back to Piran and went to a pizzeria for pizza! Yum, yum, this is the start of many pizzas. Had an early night, as we have an early ...

Pizza again
Jul 25, 2006 (2 photos)

Slept most of the way back on the ferry. Arrived in Piran at about 8. Went to the hostel and had a nice, cool shower and went out to dinner. Decided to go to the same pizzeria as last night. Then walked along the beach and packed all my stuff back into my ...

We can be students if you want us to be.....
Sep 4, 2004 (13 photos)

Zagreb, Ljubljana, Lake Bled, Bohinjsko Jezero, Koper, Piran 04/09/04 - 09/09/04 Before getting into Slovenia there was a quick stop off in Croatia's capital of Zagreb. Another incredibly slow train ride which took about 7 hours. We could have run ...

June 9 - the Aegean Sea - my last day in Slovenia
Jun 9, 2009 (1 photos)

My traveling in Slovenia will end by tomorrow morning, when I will catch a bus to Pula, Croatia. I hope all things will be ended as nice as this one: right at this moment I am typing away sitting on a chair by the shore of the Adriatic Sea, with a beer and ...

Eating seafood by the sea
Jul 22, 2006 (5 photos)

... We didn't know if they were genuine or not, so we waited for the bus. It was a 20 minute scenic coastal drive to Piran. Piran is a cute little seaside town that has not being invaded by developers and there are no huge hotels or resorts. Walked to the town ...

Piran
Aug 7, 2007

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Driving in Slovenia and actually seeing stuff
Oct 2, 2009 (34 photos)

... a drive ahead of me, and a couple of more stops to make en route. It took about an hour and a half to reach Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital.  From the highway, there were not clear signs pointing towards the center of the city, so, once again, it ...

Piran
Aug 7, 2007

... lake and then spent the night taking in the free show that was on in the park!  So far Slovenia was amazing!   Next stop was Piran... a little village out on the coast.  Not much to see but we had awesome custard squares and lamingtons!!!& ...

Fishy business
Sep 17, 2005 (2 photos)

The most picturesque port you can imagine, allegedly. Not in a thunderstorm it isn't. A little venetian, in that there were lots of blinds, but no deafs - actually, there were two. I'm making the place sound bad - it was actually very pretty, ...

Piran
Nov 4, 1978

Lovely seaside town.

Lublji Jublji and Pretty Piran
Jul 10, 2006

... town in two. It has a dragon as it's symbol and an old castle up on a hill that overlooks the old town. When we got to Piran all we wanted to do was swim - we were having withdrawal symptoms - but we had to find a place to stay first. It wasn't possible ...

Karst, Entering the Unknown
Mar 11, 2007 (2 photos)

Piran is down on the coast of Slovenia nearby borders including Italy and Croatia. A cute little town, with an amazing view from the old town walls over to Venice.  One of the last stops on this trip, one of my main aims of coming here was to unwind, ...

Piran
Jul 28, 2008

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Soca Valley ride to Tolmin to Piran
Aug 20, 2007

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Chill out time in Slovenia
Aug 8, 2007 (4 photos)

... . We saw the largest underground cavern in the world, and the whole thing was awesome. We then headed to Piran, on the tiny bit of coast that Slovenia manages to keep from Croatia and Italy. We hoped to go diving on a wreck there but unfortunately didn't ...

Let Your Stomach Be Your Guide
Oct 19, 2008

...  time goes on so until my next post, "hasta luego" and "a presto." Pictures of Slovenia at: http://picasaweb.google.com/josephleeis

May 02, 2009
May 2, 2009 (12 photos)

Picturesque Piran
Dec 15, 2009 (17 photos)

It was windy, but not nearly as bad.  Spent half of the day walking, exploring, and taking pictures.

They almost speak Polish
Jul 6, 1997

Couple of days spent in the country - we could almost speak with our nation's language.

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Nov 25, 2008

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