Slovenia

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]