Blogs from Upper Carniola, Slovenia, Europe - page 9

Our plan had been to spend the whole day in Plitvice and to drive only as far as we could that evening, but to camp somewhere still in Croatia. Since we had started our day early, finished the park at 2 PM and because it was much too hot to spend the afternoon outside, we changed our plans and left ASAP to spend the night in Ljubljana. It was only a 3 hours' ride, so it was ok. We had found a nice hostel online, but it was very complicated to get into the parking (the main entrance was closed, we had to find the other entrance and there were 4 more cars waiting to get in) and the staff at the hostel was very slow. Anne’s foot, where she had been bitten by that wasp, ... read more

Fishing is a pastime for people of Bled. But I would rather just eat it.... read more

Am letzten Tag meines Kurzurlaubs in Triest habe ich wieder das übliche Frühstück gehabt. Kuchen und 3 Cappuccino und danach so eine Art Quark mit Marmelade. Und etwas Saft. Danach habe ich ausgecheckt und bin los gefahren. Der Plan war, diesmal die andere Route nach Villach zu nehmen, also nicht über Udine, sondern über Ljubljana und dann vor allem am Bleder See zu Mittag zu Essen. An der Grenze zu Slovenien habe ich für 15 Tage (glaube ich) eine Vignette gekauft und wenn man die Preise in unseren Nachbarländern ansieht, erscheinen die für die geplante Maut bei uns doch etwas zu niedrig. Ich glaube, ich habe auch etwa 15 Euro dafür bezahlt und Slovenien ist ja erheblich kleiner. Aber das Geld und vielleicht eine ganze Reihe EU-Hilfen scheinen gut zu investiert zu sein, denn die Autobahnen ... read more

So we were getting close to the end of the second leg of this journey. Ljubljana was the last destination on the list... Now only we needed to get there somehow… Unfortunately the connections between Rovinj and Ljubljana weren't that great… Either a very early bus at 5.50am or the afternoon one at 2.50pm... We were really considering the early morning one for a while, mostly thinking about Millie and the fact that she's definitely coping better with morning bus journeys rather than the afternoon ones... still the idea of waking up around 4am to catch the bus faded away quite quickly. The afternoon bus it was then... Thankfully we were able to negotiate late check-out with the hosts (another advantage of booking accommodation in the low season I guess). And we were ready to head ... read more

Picking up where we left off with the clink of coffee cups and the hum of conversation in the background, I left Split and had a bit of choice on how to get to my next conference. This meant getting to the towns of Piran and Portoroz, a lovely little spot on the tiny 40km sliver of coastline owned by Slovenia. The fact that I was there to talk about whales for two weeks was a fact that amused every Slovene I encountered to no end. Slovenia has some dolphins, and like many other populations, they're not doing as well as most would like. Anyways that gave a few options. Either go along the Croatian coast, or try to cut through along a more consistently used road. The problem was that the rational mid point stop ... read more