Day 2 – Slovenian countryside ❤️

After a few hours of sleep we got up quite early for our Roadtrip Day 2 :).

The BnB served a small breakfast after which we were set to go.

Look for the market, not the BnB and you will find it 😊

We decided to go see the old castle on top of the hill in the middle of the city. Iphone maps suggested a few routes of which both were not really possible to drive, so after few deadends we found an open parking lot with a lot of space and did the walking.

We also strolled the city a bit more, bought fresh nectarines at the market square and had a coffee break with organic frozen raw food banana chocolate cake 😊

When leaving the city we just decided to start driving towards Croatia and to take an ad hoc stop or route change if something interesting comes along.

A few km’s from the city we saw signs for Idrjia which is an Unesco site so we thought to drive there. The road was mostly small and very curvy! Perfect for motorcycling. Pics will be added in separate post.

The Slovenian countryside served some very nice views, green fields and mountains, so beautiful. In Idrjia we had just a small stop and decided to head back to the highways, via even smaller roads.

We took a lunch break in Postojna:

Approximate route of the day with main stops:

End destination of day 2 is Lovran by the Adriatic sea in Croatia. We’ll stay here for two days.

Day 2 – Pics from the city centre of Ljubljana

Important message ❤

“Face-off”

The city centre is full of old buildings decorated with colorful flowers 🙂

Views over the city from the castle

Medieval(?) castle

Aroma restaurant from the night before

Last Ljubljiana pic, now heading towrads Croatia via Slovenian countryside

Day 1

Wake up in Helsinki at 5:00 this Tuesday morning to catch a 8:00 flight to Munich.

We have booked a rental car from Munich airport for the next 10 days. We booked a VW Golf online, via autoeurope.com, from Avis but ended up with a Ford Focus as we informed that we are going to Slovenia and Croatia (as old east block countries). The Focus was brand new so no complaints there.

Destination of Day 1 is Ljubljana, Slovenia. We drove via roads 99 and A8 towards Austria and Salzburg, but didn’t go into Salzburg but headed via A2 towards Villach. We had a first short pitstop after roughly 1 hour drive, on the German side. 

We got our vingettes both for Austria and Slovenia here already as well.

2nd short stop was in Austria to admire the mountains by the road. As we’ll be back in Austria later, we stayed on the main roads to reach  Ljubljana in decent time.

Plan is to stay in Ljublijana for one night. Total km driven today was approximately 460km.

This night we’ll stay at “B&B By The Way“a bit outside the city. It was easy to get to, but a bit tricky to find the exact house. Small, but recently renovated, and clean BnB.

After checking in (check in open here 18:00-20:00) we headed into the city center. The absolute centre is full of people, locals and tourists. The narrow streets and old buildings are blooming by all the cosy restaurants and terraces as well as small shops. We had a bite to eat at a resturant called Aroma and continued walking around taking in the wibe of the old town for a few hours before heading back to the BnB to get some rest for Day 2.