After leaving Postoyna Caves we couldn’t make our minds up whether to head for the Slovenian coast or the Croatian coast. Left or right? Right or left? We were a little unsure about visiting the Istrian penisular in Croatia as we’d heard mixed reports about it. Left or right? ...
Articles for August 2017
Day 48 : Part I : Lake Bohinj, Lake Bled & Postoyna Caves, Slovenia
With both lakes so busy – heaving, in fact! – we have decided that, as we’re definitely coming back to Slovenia in the (near!) future, that we’d skip these out but a quick visit was required to have a look for ourselves and to get some photos. Both are...
Day 46-47 : Lake Bohinj, Slovenia
OMG, turn off that light!!!!! We woke up to bright sunshine but terribly hungover and just a little babelaas bang (this is a South African saying when you have a hangover and you’re really, really jumpy!). So when Garmin said it was 3.5 hours to Lake Bohinj (pronounce: Lake...
Day 45 : Part II : Tolmin, Slovenia (MotörCity Blues Festival)
So, just in case you haven’t watched the video on the previous posting, here are some shots of the drive that we did over the mountains from Ljubljana to Tolmin. It was spectacular! But as someone who gets vertigo standing on a thick carpet, just a l-i-t-t-l-e stress (ok,...
Day 45 : Part I : The drive to Tolmin, Slovenia (MotörCity Blues Festival)
Woke up very excited this morning! Time for the Blues Festival. Checked emailed ….still no response from them. Ah, who cares, we’re going anyway and will sort it when we get there. We put “Tolmin” as the destination in Garmin and Google Maps and, as per usual, an argument...
Day 44 : Ljubljana, Slovenia
The next day dawned, bright sunshine again for a change . No email from MotörCity to confirm if we could camp on Saturday night or not – bugger! Well, we’d still go to Ljubljana and then onto the festival and just risk it. After all, the food market in...
Day 43 : Jeruzalem, Slovenia
After a leisurely breakfast to console ourselves (we really didn’t want to leave Ljutomer & our new friends but time was ticking on), we set off with a flawless blue sky above us to drive the 20km or so to our next destination, Jeruzalem. Paul had said not to...
Day 40-42 : Ljutomer, Slovenia
Our love affair with Slovenia began as we crossed the border and left Hungary behind. Again, nothing more significant than an EU road sign but from there everything changed. Dramatically. The roads changed from pot-holed madness to well tended, the fruit trees were harvested and the produce sold or...
Day 35–39 : Koppányszántó, Hungary
Yup, you only have to look at the spelling of the name of that village (and then try to say it correctly) to get the feeling that language was going to be a little more difficult in Hungary. And it truly was. In all other countries we have managed...
Andrew’s Bográcsgulyás
(Bogrács: cooked in kettle over open fire) This gulyás was made by the owner of Tranquil Pines, Andrew Marshall (on the left), in Koppányszántó, Hungary when we stayed with them in August 2017 during our 6 month tour of Europe. Notes Traditionally this is cooked over an open fire...