If you’re a horse person, then you’ve probably heard of Lippizaners – those spotlessly white horses renowned for their good showmanship in classical dressage. These days they’re mostly associated with Austria and the Habsburg monarchy, but did you know that these horses are originally from Slovenia? And that the very first stud farm has been […]
Continue ReadingA Castle Inside a Cave
Have you ever looked back on your holiday memories and regretted not doing something? Predjama Castle in Slovenia is one such regret for me. The road from Nova Gorica to Predjama is an adventure all on its own, especially in a campercar. It’s only wide enough for one vehicle and twists and turns through a […]
Continue ReadingDriving Through the Julian Alps in Slovenia
What I love about travelling by campercar is the freedom to come and go as you please. After our first blissful few days at Lake Bled, we planned to stop at Bovec, a small town in the middle of the Julian Alps, in the northernmost part of Slovenia. We left the dinosaurs behind just before […]
Continue ReadingWalking With Dinosaurs
You’ve all heard this pithy saying: “Raising kids is a walk in the park. Jurassic Park.” Well, some days that statement is literally true. On the day we left Lake Bled we told the little traveller that we had a surprise for him. The look on his face when we stopped at Dino Park Bled […]
Continue ReadingUnderstated Radovljica
Our guidebook advised spending a morning in Radovljica, a quaint little town not far from Lake Bled, so we packed up our campervan and headed out. We soon learned that driving such a big vehicle in tiny one-way streets is not ideal, and finding parking for it even worse. Fortunately, just as we were giving […]
Continue ReadingMy New Happy Place: Lake Bled
Before I had even parked the campervan in its spot I was already in love – with Slovenia in general, our campsite in particular, and Lake Bled specifically. We were staying for three nights, but we already knew we could easily have spent our entire 3-week trip camped right here, on the shores of a […]
Continue ReadingOur Actual Campervan Route Through Slovenia and Croatia
I planned out our ideal route before we travelled to the Balkans. We were going to visit Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina during our 3-week campervan trip. Things didn’t turn out quite as planned. The company we hired the campervan from were adamant that we were not to take the vehicle into either […]
Continue ReadingOur Planned Balkan Campervan Route
There are many reasons why we decided to do this year’s big holiday in a campervan, but the most important one is the flexibility it will give us to come and go as we please. I’ve planned out a route, but nothing is set in stone and if we decide that we like a specific […]
Continue ReadingThe Logistics of Planning a Campervan Trip To the Balkans
The countdown timer on my phone tells me we’re into the twenties now, less than thirty days until our upcoming trip to Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina! I’ve had sleepless nights thinking about all the things I needed to get done before we could set foot on the plane, but now, with less […]
Continue ReadingI’m Planning a Holiday Again!
After nearly four years of travel banishment, I’m finally planning an overseas holiday again! The little traveller is turning 3 at the end of February 2019 and I think he’s finally old enough to handle a 12-hour flight, especially if most of those hours are during bedtime anyway. More importantly, I think I’m now also […]
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