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The caves

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Well, it’s been busy!

Mainly because I have been helping out with the launch my parent site, which is exciting cause I know they have a tonne of cool ideas, they just don’t have to people to make it happen over night, but it will get there, I will be helping them where I can (although I think I will need to do a little more traveling first!!).

Anyway, back to it…

right, so after spending sometime in Bled we decided it was time to head out for Venice.  However, along the way we stopped into the famous caves.  We got there nice and early (a little too early, but we had time to relax and be first to get our ticket).  We caught a cute little train that took us deeper into the cave and after  a little time of ohhhing and ahhhing on the way down we got out and was able to walk around while our guide was giving us the facts.  Here are a couple of photos of me in the caves:

slovenian caves

a little blurry, this camera wasn’t the best for photos at night I have found out.

chicken in slovenian caves

It was quite cool down there (in both the temperature and good factor).  Since I am on the topic of caves, while this one was lit up nicely, what is with the coloured lights in caves?  Is it to bring out certain colours in the rocks?Or is it purely for entertainment purposes?  I have always wanted to know that (well, always as in the last couple of hours at least – hehe)

So after walking around the caves, thinking about the millions of years it took to create the stalactites and how it would be typical for me to fall and knock one down (however I didn’t, probably because I am not tall enough) it was time to go.

At the end we were told to wait at a station for the little train to take use back up…..and I am serious, they really have a station in the cave, complete with a little yellow line (which I am naughty and am in front of)!

cave station

Toot toot!

Next stop was Venice, since Italy isn’t the cheapest place in the world we were told they have pretty good camp sites with cabins that are reasonably priced, so we found one that is right next to a ferry stop that will take us in.

Byeeeee

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Bled

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Hello!!

Well we are out seeing Bled today.   It is so picture perfect, it’s not funny.  Seriously, look up photo and you will see the lake with the church (I say look them up because I forgot to get photos, I even forgot to get photos without me in them!!!), we opted to go driving to the other side of the lake where there were less tourists (yes, I am still on my never ending search to see fantastic places without all the people – hehe)!

We did a lot of walking and checked out some of the shops, we found a nice little area were I got some shots on a cute bridge:

bled

bled 2

See what I mean by uber pretty?

Next stop we are off to see the caves, which I am looking forward to.

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How not to travel – 4 countries in a few days

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Ok,

Well, we have done a lot of driving lately….and been across 4 countries (not really recommended if you want to actually see stuff – lol)!!

First we left Vienna for Bratislava, we spent the day walking around looking at the castle and the town, all very pretty, but as it got later we decided we were keen to move on, so we headed out towards Budapest in the afternoon, although because it was getting late, we stopped at Gyor and found somewhere to stay.  Gyor was a bit of a gem, a really sweet place, we got a little bit of afternoon light to look around before retiring for the night in out hotel:

Gyor bed...

Then in a huge change of events, we all had a bit of a talk and decided that we would ditch the idea of Romania for Italy…… so we awoke early, got some fresh bread for brekky, and head towards Italy, although, it wouldn’t be a real trip without some stop offs along the way!  We decided we wanted to check out Croatia first, however due to time constraints, we couldn’t go down the coast as I would have loved, instead we checked out Zagreb.  On the way, I saw a Croatian chicken!  No one would let me say hi, so all I have to show is a blurry photo:

Croatian chicken

Due to the lack of information we had on Croatia (we never planned to come here), we drove around Zagreb, looked around and basically headed back out.  Which leaves us here in Ljubljana.  We arrived late, found a place to stay and headed into the centre for something to eat, and oh my, this would have to be the most romantic place ever (Well, that I have seen), we are staying where the water flows through the city, and all the restaurants have outside seating with lots of fairy lights, cobblestones, old buildings and candles everywhere…. just perfect.  We will be staying in Slovenia for a little longer than our normal stops, mainly because we are tired of driving and it’s soooooo pretty  (Also we were told before we left that we have to see Bled and the caves)!!

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