Blogs from Slovenia, Europe - page 48

Bled - day 14-16 - September 5-7 We had the luxury of a private transfer (two cars) to take us to our final stop in Bled, Slovenia. It was a pleasant journey on good freeways. Our driver was a young guy who had a rafting and other adventure sport business, was a taxi/car-hire person, as well as being a policman. Very hard working! We had a long wait in a queue to cross the boarder into Slovenia and back into the Schengen zone. You can see why the removal of border checks is a high priority as it must be costly as well as frustrating for those that need to move frequently between countries. Our driver said that we would be driving across almost the whole width of Slovenia from here - taking about an hour. ... read more

I know exactly where I am. Do you know where tiny Slovenia is on a map? The country was a part of Yugoslavia, the most northern region of that ex-country, sandwiched between Austria to the north and Italy to the west. The southern border of Slovenia is now Croatia, and there is a small border with Hungary to the north east. I left Zagreb with one of my hostel room mates who was travelling in the same direction as me this day. We had a real border crossing soon into the two hour train trip, a stamp out of Croatia and a stamp into Slovenia. I am now back in the EU, an economic zone, back in the Euro zone, a monetary zone and back in the Schengen zone, a security zone. And as well as ... read more

Schon war der Tag gekommen an dem wir uns auf die Heimreise machen mussten. Wir beschlossen auf der Rückreise noch Ljubljana zu besichtigten. Am frühen Nachmittag waren wir in der Hauptstadt von Slowenien, die auch unter den Namen Laibach bekannt ist. Ljubljana wirkt wie eine österreichische Stadt und viele Gebäude wurden von dem Architekten Joe Plečnik gestaltet. Natürlich durfte ein gutes Mittagessen nicht fehlen, wobei gut relativ, vor allem für den Preis, relativ war. Leider hatten wir insgesamt nur 2-3 Stunden Zeit. Wir konnten jedoch einen guten Eindruck von dieser wunderschönen Stadt gewinnen. Nach diesen kurzen Zwischenstopp ging es weiter nach Graz und anschließend wieder mit meinen Auto nach Bad Aussee und am nächsten Tag wieder nach Enns zurück. Der Urlaub gefiel mir sehr gut und es war sehr schön mit Moni noch einmal viel Zeit ... read more

Before To get to our next destination we weaved in and out of countries as we followed the Alps towards Slovenia. We broke our journey up and spent a night in a camp near St Mortiz and a night near Doube in Italy. We finally drove into Austria before crossing over into Solvenia. It took two long days of driving but ask Chris what his highlight is and he will definitely say ‘Stelvio Pass’ What is Stelvio Pass? Well, I guess we have an episode of TopGear to thank for it’s fame. It is a mountain pass, regarded by Clarkson as one of the finest driving roads in Europe. Based in Italy (not too far from the Swiss Border) Stelvio Pass crosses a mountain range of 2700 metres. There are about 50 switch backs which are ... read more

We were definitely excited to be leaving behind the London “summer” and get a real summer abroad in Europe! First stop was Ljubljana in Slovenia, where we landed mid morning. We had a few hours to kill before our train departed to Lake Bled so we put our bags in storage at Ljubljana train station (2 Euros for a HUGE locker - bargain!) and headed into the capital city. We were instantly impressed with Ljubljana as a place and were glad we had a few hours to spend exploring the streets! When we first landed in Slovenia, unfortunately it was raining but this soon cleared up to make way for some great sunshine and we never saw the rain again until we returned to London a few weeks later! Ljubljana is a pint sized capital by ... read more