After a lovely drive across Italy from Nice, France, we arrived in Slovenia at the Njoki Festival in Ajdovscina. It is a small town, and the address for the festival literally read “center of town.” The festival consisted of an outdoor stage at the foot of an impressive range of mountains and a small campground, where most of the festivalgoers seemed to be staying. We stayed there for two days, one night in a student dorm type facility. The night we arrived was the first night of the festival, and Marky Ramone, drummer of the Ramones, was headlining. He had a [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Ljubjana and Carmen directed us to a closed off area with steel bollards blocking the small cobble stone streets. Obviously, changes have been made to the city and the old part of the city has been closed off to traffic other than to cyclist, skaters and pedestrian traffic. We ended up trying to work our way around the traffic road under the castle by way of the tunnel and came out on the other side of the old city but still couldn't get into the restricted area because of the bollards. Di managed to ask at another hotel [View Full Entry]

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hi all if your bored of me droaning on then just delete this... For those of you missing us then this is the latest installation Again pics are on facebook! Well Vienna was fun if we didnt tell you that all ready? we spent alot of time wandering round and seeing the sites, Schonbrunn palace is pretty amazing! Vienna obviously was geared up for the footy and so some of the things to see there were closed but we did get to watch a couple of games in Fanzone.... the atmosphere was great (probably cos the english fans werent there to [View Full Entry]

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The last few days I have gotten to see more of the country side in Solvenia. On Sunday we went to a small village and saw a small castle and its ruins and we walked around a bit and then we went and saw this spring, this by far was the highlight of my trip. When you first got out of the car at the spring you looked up as saw the jagged outline of the Alps which were cover in snow, but you could not see all of it because there was a storm coming. As your eyes came down [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday we went into the city and I got to see the Market, this was so cool. There were so many fresh vegetables, flowers, and homemade goods. This alone made me want to move to Slovenia, but then I remembered I do not speak and word of Slovene (yes it is a language), that alone would make my life a little difficult!! Well after, Mojca fixed my favorite meal rice with mushroom sauce for lunch, we went to a wedding...Mojca was playing the piano for her choir who was hired to sing for the wedding. This was very interesting for me, [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Ljubljana, Solvenia today. (Quick geography lesson, Solvenia is below Austria and was formerly part of Yugoslavia (sp). I woke up at 4.20 to be at the airport in Cologne by 6 am.....it was way too early especially since I went to bed at 1 am. I flew to Graz, Austria and then took a train to Ljubljana because there are not any direct flights from Cologne to here. The traveling part was not all that bad, the part that was not fun is that I am really tired. However, I will be here for a few days so [View Full Entry]

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I arrived in Ljubljana today, for the first time in three years. Being back is really strange, the city has changed and yet it is the same. New people, old people, new smells, old smells. Places that I remember, places that have come, places that no longer exist. I am staying with Joao in a big flat in Slovenska. It is quite an inventars place. The people living here are rather artistic in one way or the other, or so I heard as I have yet to meet them. But the place certainly gives an idea of those who inhabit it. [View Full Entry]

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Dag allemaal, we zijn in Bled vertrokken in de stromende regen, maar vanuit bled gaat de bus stroomopwaarts langs de Sava righting het meer van Bohinj. Eenmaal in Ribceb Laz aangekomen was de toeristische dienst wat vaag, maar ze hebben ons netjes bij ons appartementje (ongeveer elke huis heeft hier extra kamers) afgezet, waar we werden opgewacht door een vriendelijk sloveens weduwtje die ons wat bij praatte met wat thee en koekjes. Het werd toen gelukkig wat droger, dus wij maakten ons klaar voor de eerste wandeling hier. Ons doel was de Slap Savica, de waterval en de bron van de [View Full Entry]

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We houden het kort, want anders vallen we om.. Na een kort ontbijtje in Ljubljana, namen we de bus naar Bled. Een uurtje rijden met een sociaal onbegaafde chauffeur bracht ons in het pittoreske Bled, vol hotels en toeristenvoorzieningen, deze lieten we direct voor wat het was, en aan de rand van het dorp vonden we onze backpackers loge. We zijn met drie gasten hier, dus we hebben 1 stapelbed voor onszelf. We vertrokken vandaag rond half 1 en we waren op de juiste weg om 1 uur. Deze leidde ons naar een kloof in de rotsen die voor een heel [View Full Entry]

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Hallo allemaal! Hier zijn we dan, in Ljubljana. Het is dan wel bewolkt en nog een beetje koud hier, maar we vermaken ons prima. De reis hierheen ging heel erg vlot, en hoewel we vooraf niet volledig zeker waren of het ons ging lukken om helemaal hier te komen (treinstakingen, busverbindingen en treinkaartjes) ging het allemaal heel erg makkelijk. We zijn maandagmiddag in Delft vertrokken met de tram naar het station, dan met de intercity naar Rotterdam gegaan, daar de Internationale trein gepakt naar antwerpen, en van daaruit naar Temse gegaan met de bus. Dinsdag hebben we een huurauto gehaald omdat [View Full Entry]

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