Sorry it has been so long since our last update. We have been travelling with my parents, driving a great little VW Golf Turbo Diesel all over the country. Since last Thursday, we have seen most of the top tourist attractions and "must see" sights in Slovenia. Some of the highlights:
- Ptuj, a wonderful, ancient city out in the eastern side of the country, where we stayed for two nights, toured the Haloze wine valley, biked around the lake, visited the castle, had some wonderful food, and more
- Bled, possibly the most beautiful town in the country, with a castle on the hill overlooking the lake, a church on a little island in the lake, some great hikes...
- Bohinj, (again - Claire and I were here for 4 days a couple weeks ago) where we saw the "Cows Ball", probably the most "Slovenian" festival in the country, ate sausage, goulash, sauerkraut, and beer, took the cable car up the mountain to get a view of Mount Triglav... lots of fun!
- Drove over the twisty, narrow Vrsic pass highway with its 49 switchbacks and spectacular views.
- Saw the Predjama castle, the Postonja caves, the Skocjan caves, the Vipava wine valley... The Skocjan caves in particular were one of the most amazing things I have ever seen anywhere. A HUGE underground cavern with a river roaring through the bottom of it, pathways winding along the cliffs over the river and a bridge hundreds of feet over the water. The best way to describe it is to compare it to the "Mines of Moria" scenes in the Lord of the Rings movie.
- Day tripped to Piran, a beautiful little town on the coast (seemed more Italian than Slovenian, not too surprising given its mostly Italian history)
And a lot more I can't even remember at the moment. I would love to put up pictures... we have taken several hundred pictures over the last week but unfortunately we are using the free internet service in the tourist information office and the computer here won't let me load pictures from our USB camera stick!
Anyway, we are heading off to Zagreb, Croatia in a couple of hours... maybe we will be able to put some pictures on the blog from there.
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