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Europe » Slovenia September 24th 2008

T K Breg - Brda Hills Last day here in Breg and the Brda Hills, so not too much travelling today. After a leisurely breakfast, one egg appeared this morning, so we left it for Saška and Annabel to have; we went for a drive around the various little villages nearby. The weather was perfect, not to hot, but beautiful sun and clear blue skies. The harvest is still going strong, with all the little tractors trundling along with the trailers full of grapes. We ended up in the town of Dobrovo, which has a castle and in the basement a wine cellar, with tasting. I went a little mad, and have ended up with 18 bottles of very nice red and white wine; I just hope they taste as good when we get them home! ... read more
Brda Hills
Brda Hills
Brda Hills

Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Ljubljana September 24th 2008

As my readers know, my wife and I stay in a different place in the world each year, and I write a travel journal about the experience. (See my profile for more.) During our summer in Slovenia we made several trips from our residence in Bled to Ljubljana. This is an account of one such trip. Ljubljana means "beloved" in Slovene.It is an easy 45 minute drive from Bled. We went on a Saturday, market day, and the town was all a buzz. Finding a parking place for the day near the university, we set about discovering the central part of this lovely capital. Ljubljana is not a large city, though it is the largest in Slovenia by far. About 168 miles square with about 275,000 residents at the time of our stay. It is a ... read more

Europe » Slovenia September 23rd 2008

T K Breg - Brda Hills No eggs for breakfast, which was a bit strange, however we made ourselves bread and pršut and copious amounts of tea and coffee. We resorted to boiling our little kettle upstairs on top of a wood burning stove (not lighted) using the portable gas stove, as sadly, the electric hob takes an age to boil anything. When Saška arrived, we learnt that the chickens had gone off the lay, as the weather had turned cold. After another long chat, we decided to go to Postojnska Jama (Postojna Caves) and then see what happened after that. The trip there was not too stressful baring the fact that the SatNav decided to route us via a motorway, which we didn’t realise until we were on it. So a quick stop at the ... read more
Hrastovlje

Europe » Slovenia September 22nd 2008

T K Breg - Brda Hills The day started slightly overcast but bright, with the promise of sun later. Breakfast was delivered to the downstairs kitchen at 8am. We are sharing the kitchen with a lovely lady called Saška, who is a chemist/pharmacist and director of a company manufacturing and exporting herbal products. She lives in Portoro, right down in the south west of Slovenia, on the Istrian peninsula. She’s in the middle of a week’s holiday, with her black American Spaniel, Annabel, who is about 6 months old. Her English is good and we had a long conversation on what she did, the state of Slovenia at present etc. It was really interesting, her family have two farms/small holding, where they have olive trees, which they harvest in Nov/Dec and they’ve won prizes for its ... read more
Soca River
Triglav National Park
Triglav National Park

Europe » Slovenia » Styria » Maribor September 21st 2008

Die heutige Fahrt hab ich mir mit Step geteilt, wobei ich den Anfang gemacht hab. Nach wie vor müssen wir uns ja an die StVO halten, weshalb wir dann doch weitestgehend sehr gesittet gefahren sind. Denn schließlich will man(n), nicht kurz vor Schluss aus dem Verkehr gezogen und dann auch noch mit Touristengebühren abgezockt werden. Aber wir wären nicht die fantastischen 3, wenn wir nicht auch dafür ne Lösung hätten. Die ist nun mittlerweile auch schon zum Patent angemeldet, also nicht einfach nach machen!!! So nun zur Lösung, wir haben einfach die Ösis vorfahren lassen. Einfach und genial! Solang man selbst die Wagenkolonne anführt fährt man immer schön artig nach StVO und irgendwann, wird schon einer die Nerven verlieren und vorbei ziehen, das so genannte Opfer! In unserem Fall waren es zwei mal Ösis in ... read more

Europe » Slovenia September 21st 2008

T K Breg - Brda Hills We had supper last night back in Breg, it was very good. We had the normal soup, followed by a vegetable lasagne and then homemade raspberry ice-cream and a ‘cake’, which was also very good. Breakfast this morning we took at the vineyard, it was offered in Breg but it was a bit of a trek to go back. We felt s little uncomfortable, as it was quite a posh venue, with a number of ‘painted’ Italian ladies and their gentlemen! Having just spent the last week on a proper working farm, it was a bit of a shock. Breakfast was typically continental and substantial, but for €14 each, it needed to be. On checking out, the receptionist encouraged us to return and gave us price lists etc, but I ... read more
TK Breg
Aquiliae
Aquiliae

Europe » Slovenia September 20th 2008

Arrived yesterday pm without any complications. However, to drive on their main roads you have to buy a 6 month sticker (about $60). Staying at a large Casino Hotel. Took the shuttle into town center for a short walk around and dinner at a suggested restaurant in the old town. Walked along the river. Seems we have hit festival days with street musicians, etc. Very picturesque. Today we went back into town for the open air market along the river and then climbed to the castle. Did some more walking around town and walked back to the hotel - about 4 K. City is a combination of old and new because some was destroyed in previous wars. People seem relaxed and friendly and speak English as a second language. Supposedly the avergae Slovenian lives in a ... read more
Ljubljana 2
Ljubljana 3
Ljubljana 4

Europe » Slovenia » Upper Carniola » Bled September 20th 2008

Day 16 (Saturday, September 20th, 2008) After checking out of our hotel in Ljubljana this morning, we quickly walked a few blocks east in order to reach the car rental office where we picked-up our rental car. Somehow, although I had reserved the cheapest option possible through Gemut Auto Rental, we ended up with a small white Mercedes, which was a pleasant surprise! We have rented cars several times during previous trips to Europe. Each time, even though we always had directions printed out, we would inevitably become lost. To help prevent this from occurring again, Mike purchased a GPS system before we left on the trip so that we would have a much less stressful driving experience. Once he turned on the GPS system, it worked flawlessly, each time bringing us to the correct destination ... read more
View of the Slovenian countryside near Skocjan Caves
Interior of Skocjan Caves
Piran's main square

Europe » Slovenia September 20th 2008

Enroute Logarska Dolina - Breg, Brda Got up early and packed before breakfast. Breakfast was as normal. I managed to ask whether I could buy some elodec and how much, somehow I managed to purchase one at 600gm and a 1.5kg, they are vacuum packed and frozen, so I’m hoping they’ll make it back to UK. I’ll have to find somewhere cool to store them whilst further south. After saying our farewell’s, we headed towards Austria and after a really exciting uphill climb, Jeremy Clarkson would have been proud, we re-entered Slovenia and headed downhill towards Kranj and then Bled. We put in the SatNav not to go on motorways or toll roads, as you now have to buy a Vignette to travel on the major motorways in Slovenia. The outcome was to take us through ... read more
South of Triglav

Europe » Slovenia September 19th 2008

Logarska Dolina - T K Perk Today started slightly overcast, but looked as if it might clear up later on. At breakfast we said goodbye to Stephanie, Daniel and Gabriela, who were flying back to Stanstead this afternoon and thence onwards to Shrewsbury. With the mist beginning to clear we set out for our expedition to Matkov Kot Škaf. The walk for the first two hours is basically all downhill on forestry tracks. We met the farmer from Matk, this time he was herding a flock of sheep from a lower pasture up to the fields around his farm. This time we were able to wish him ‘good day’, which seemed to please. We passed yet another farm on our journey downhill and finally made it to the valley bottom and the dried out riverbed. There ... read more
Maktkov Kot
Maktkov Kot
Maktkov Kot




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