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Ptuj Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ptuj, Slovenia
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I Still Don't Know How to Say "Ptuj"
This is a top pick! ... I heard it said at least ten times and still couldn't say if it sounded like ptooey or ptoye or ptu... Anyway, Ptuj was a small town in eastern Slovenia. It had a castle, which was really more like a palace these days, a few monasteries and some churches. ...
Bike rides and water slides
... in as well in the eastern part of the country but we did spend a good amount of time sliding down tubes! First stop was Ptuj which when you pronounce it sounds like you are spitting. The village is built on a hill beside a river and is beautiful. We ...
Ptuj-la ou le temps s'est arrete
Ptuj, ville vinicole aux innombrables traditions. Au mois de fevrier (comme toujours, j'arrive en retard), les habitants du village font le festival Kurent, ou des gens se deguisent en moutons-monstres avec des masques pour faire fuir l'hiver et attirer ...
Lady luck
... next to their beanstalks in a little Slovenian village, somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Called ahead to the hostel in Ptuj, where I'd decided to stay a couple of nights. It's supposed to be a small town with something pretty, but neither I nor my ...
A lazy, sunny day in beautiful Ptuj
... up the street, still not entirely sure of our movements, and went to the tourist information centre to get some information about cycling around Ptuj. Decided that the next smartest thing to do was sit in the sun, as the locals were, and sort out our next ...
Tour de Haloze and Ptuj
... whether he knew where we were, and he turned to me, and very helpfully said “of course Rach… we’re in Slovenia”}. We were tempted to have our picnic here, but considering it was still early in the day and we were on the wrong ...
Beautiful, beautiful Slovenia
... " to take in and contemplate but we enjoyed it immensely and were guided by Peter who has substantial knowledge of the country's history. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia until the early 1990s. It is now a country with just over 1 million. It is a country ...
Ptuj
We came to Ptuj on the second most quiet day of the year. Normally it is a bustling Italian style hill town, with a castle and cathedral that you can easily while away the hours in. Sadly being the non-religonists that we are we don't think about things ...
Why did we ever leave Slovenia?
... to mention that the road to this place is long, twisted, but above all really neglected and ugly. Why did we bother leaving Slovenia? Well, eventually we had to leave this lovely country, to return our rented car in Italy (you can hear me blowing my ...
an unnecessary stop
... drink (though she only took a coffee)... We bought some more drinks for the journey, assuming we'd be on our way to Ptuj. However the Slovenia rail network had other plans for us. Once we crossed the border, we stopped at the nearest town and were herded ...
On Our Own 2
... , we followed the signs for about a half-hour to Ptuj (ptoo'-ee), with plans of touring another castle there. We found Ptuj easily, and enjoyed more countryside in the meantime. I forgot to talk about the radio stations. Too funny. The songs go from ...
Day Trip to Ptuj
... out to explore more of the sites in town and take a bus to Ptuj. Ptuj is claimed to be one of the most beautiful towns in Slovenia, so we had to explore it to see for ourselves. Mind you, we are in the city and not at a higher elevation, ...
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