Blogs from Ljubljana, Upper Carniola, Slovenia, Europe - page 8

July 17th: Early to rise, no sign of the guy who runs the B&B so I had to leave the cash in the room… I sure as hell hope that he gets it, I’d hate to have to pay for my most expensive room twice just because a cleaner or someone was a little light fingered (NB: I emailed the guy the next day and he said he HAD got the money and apologised for not being around to collect it himself). Well that’s nice of the Venezia Mestre train station… to still have an hourly train to Villach over the boarder in Austria listed on their train timetable (the time table is valid till December 2012 apparently) even though they don’t have a train at all, they have a bus which seems to go maybe ... read more

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Dans les moments plus sombres du voyage, elle était là pour m'éclairer. Quand je n'y voyais plus rien, elle était là pour me guider. Elle était la lueur salvatrice dont j'avais besoin quand la noirceur tentait de m'envelopper. Quand les ténèbres tentaient de m'aspirer, elle les repoussait de brillante façon. Toute cette puissance qu'elle dégageait, je la croyais pas aussi fragile. Qui aurait cru qu'une simple chute l'éteindrait à jamais. Adieu lampe frontale. Tu m'as rendu de fiers services. À Ljubljana, ce qui devait un jour arriver arriva. Eh oui, il était finalement temps de ramener notre petite Citroen C3, qui nous avait si bien servis depuis un peu plus d'un mois. Ça a été un moment difficile, surtout dû au fait que ça nous a pris 30 minutes de gossage dans le traffic autour de ... read more

What an awesome night Train. I Had the whole room to myself, cant beat that. So AWESOME. ha. Arrived here about 8 am, As I come up to my hostel there is graffiti everywhere on the surrounding walls. I was like where the heel am I. I thought I might be in the ghetto. The Hostel Im staying out use to be an old prison but converted into a Hostel. The Hostel is pretty cool and the surrounding area is actually the safest in the city and its just a bunch of hippies that live in this area. I checked my bags in and started to walk around the city for about 5 hours. I went up to the Castle and took some good scenic shots and all through old town. Some cool history here. Had ... read more

The drive out of Croatia was long. Croatia, while not that big, is longer than you think – almost 800ks as the crow flies along the coast. We got away from the excellent campsite by ten, farewelling our German friends and the super friendly old couple that owned the place. Heading north we avoided the motorway and associated tolls, and this took us through some fantastic country. Similar to parts of Spain, the low sandstone hills had a very Mediterranean look to them, dry, spotted with small villages. Different to Spain, however, was the occasional bombed out house. Not as much damage here as in Bosnia and Hercegovina, but you could still see where fighting had happened. The road followed the coast for much of the way, then we cut inland, slowly increasing in altitude. We ... read more