We arrived at Ljubljana Airport in a late August noontime. One of my favorite cars, an Audi A3 was waiting for us patiently under the hot sun. We didn't feel like we needed a rest, so we just started our 12-day adventure tour in Slovenia right from that parking lot of the car rental. We already figured out by then, that the town of Škofja Loka is close by, so we decided to visit it first.
The town was first mentioned in the 10th century (not in my blog though). Since then there were plague, earthquakes, wars, peasant revolts, burning of Protestant books, fires, Nazi occupation, mass graves, communists, and so on... a tempting place to visit. Today the town is a pearl. It has a relatively renovated center, a city museum, which is located in the Loka castle. It has excellent restaurants, of which we sampled one. We've spent a couple of hours in Škofja Loka.
Here's the key to the city. You can take if you want. If you dare.
After meandering around in the town, we drove all the way to Bled, where we found our accommodation at the edge of the town. A long and extremely narrow two-way road was leading there, which was so steep and full of turns, that we could hardly entertain the idea of reversing back the same way because of a car, which would show up opposite of us.
The landlord lady was very nice. She explained us the shortest way to get to the town for dinner, which we can apparently walk in 10 minutes. OK, sounds good, so we went up, crossed the field, met one deer, heard several weird animal noises from the bushes, walked about 25 minutes, but we made it, we were finally surrounded by houses. We even found a nice restaurant, where we had dinner. On our walk back in the dark, we stayed on the road, which took a little longer, but we felt way safer than crossing the fields at night.
The town was first mentioned in the 10th century (not in my blog though). Since then there were plague, earthquakes, wars, peasant revolts, burning of Protestant books, fires, Nazi occupation, mass graves, communists, and so on... a tempting place to visit. Today the town is a pearl. It has a relatively renovated center, a city museum, which is located in the Loka castle. It has excellent restaurants, of which we sampled one. We've spent a couple of hours in Škofja Loka.
Here's the key to the city. You can take if you want. If you dare.
After meandering around in the town, we drove all the way to Bled, where we found our accommodation at the edge of the town. A long and extremely narrow two-way road was leading there, which was so steep and full of turns, that we could hardly entertain the idea of reversing back the same way because of a car, which would show up opposite of us.
The landlord lady was very nice. She explained us the shortest way to get to the town for dinner, which we can apparently walk in 10 minutes. OK, sounds good, so we went up, crossed the field, met one deer, heard several weird animal noises from the bushes, walked about 25 minutes, but we made it, we were finally surrounded by houses. We even found a nice restaurant, where we had dinner. On our walk back in the dark, we stayed on the road, which took a little longer, but we felt way safer than crossing the fields at night.
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