Slovenia
Travel Blogs from Slovenia
A detour
The drive from Salzburg to Venice was filled with long dark tunnels racing along at high speeds and sheer mountainous cliffs covered in snow. A few hours into our drive from Salzburg to Venice, Doug noted how close Slovania was from the highway. ...
Journey to Swan Lake
Bled is the kind of place where you will need to charge your camera battery several times a day, it is just so breathtakingly beautiful. We were contemplating the thought of not making the trip out to Bled, but decided to go ahead with our plans anyway ...
Ljubljana, Solvenia
... Empire from the 14th century until 1918. Those Hapsburgs really got around, didn’t they? Slovenia resisted Germanizing influences and retained its unique Slavic language and culture. In 1918, Slovenia joined with other ...
Bled - a picture perfect town
... amazing. To help describe the location I'll attach a few photos to tomorrow entry. We will be using Bled as a base from which to explore Slovenia. Our accommodation is a little self-contained unit, located about 5-10 minutes walks from the centre of ...
Dancing Horses!
So excited! Today we are going to Lipica which is in the Karst region of Slovenia and which is also home to the famous Lipazzaner horses. For those of you that are not horse fans and don't immediately know what I’m talking about, these are the ...
Back in Izlake
... a bit by dressing up as firemen (clothes borrowed) and dancing to YMCA... it was fun =p Watched the finale of both Slovenia's and Australia's Got Talent, relaxed at the summer house, went to Tilen's (Gregor's younger brother) primary school graduation, ...
Still here
... with Andre, Andreja's dad, and the girls to Postjnska Cave and Predjamski Castle. Postjnska Cave is the largest limestone caves in Slovenia and one of the top tourist attractions. A very large cave system with the tour consisting of a two kilometre train ...
We really must stop meeting like this ...
Good hostel breakfast - cereal, cheese, cold cuts and a first for me and hostels - fruit! Bananas, plums, pears, apples ... I only had a tiny plum. It must be a local thing because they are everywhere. Took the bus to Bled. Could see para-gliders ...

