Spring Break 2015
One trip that we cancelled when living in Germany was a trip we had planned to visit parts of the previously Yugoslavia. We decided to complete part of that trip by spending Spring Break in Slovenia. What a pleasant surprise! Sorry in advance for so many pictures... you will see why I just couldn't help myself!
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| First of all.... I can not even describe the beauty of these mountainous villages. Everything was so picturesque! |
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| Arriving to our village - Luce |
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| Outside our house |
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| Our house for the week |
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| Dinner was hot and ready for us as soon as we got there |
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| The view from our room. The beautiful church bells woke us up every morning. I felt like I was in a movie! |
Easter!
I couldn't believe it... the Easter Bunny found us in Slovenia!!
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| It's hard to believe they could find their baskets and the eggs with it being so messy from our late night of board games the night before! lol! |
Bled
Bled was about 1 1/2 hours from our house so we decided to spend a day there.
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| Lake Bled |
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| First things first though... lunch! |
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| Typical Slovenian food |
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| Cheese and spinach dumplings in a mushroom cream sauce - to DIE for! |
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| Bled Castle, also known as the castle on the cliff, is the oldest castle in Slovenia |
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| Bled Island. Prehistoric settlements from 11th to 8th centuries BC have been found here as well as a Pre-Romanesque chapel which is rare. |
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| I was so surprised that it started to snow! It didn't feel cold enough for snow and the sun was shining. |
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| We walked halfway around the lake to get to the castle. The entire lake is not very large and could probably be walked in under an hour. |
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| The hike up to the castle though is another story. That was a climb! But we all make it... even Kayla! |
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| The view from the hike |
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| Resting |
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| Wow... the climb was worth it!! Gorgeous! |
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| The kids decided to roll back down the hill instead of taking the stairs ;) |
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| We kept seeing these signs everywhere so decided we needed some to take home with us for dinner. |
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| We got some Bled Cream Cake and pizzas to go and went back to our cozy little village |
Snovic
We read about a nice, relaxing spa outside our village that sounded amazing for the adults and kids!! However, not everything ends up being as wonderful as you think. Most of the time when we visit a new place - it is better than we expect. That wasn't the case with Snovic.
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| It took about 1 1/2 hours to get there and the drive was less than relaxing on very narrow roads winding up and down the mountains |
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| All the anticipation led to this... |
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| It was snowing hard almost the whole time we were there which was pretty to watch |
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| They had a cafe there for lunch but I couldn't read a thing on the menu!! |
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| We ended up getting a great meal anyway |
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| We paid for 4 hours so we had to stay the whole time. Jeremy left for an hour to get a massage. You have to hear him describe this massage in person!!! Soooo funny!! |
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| That night Jeremy and I snuck out for a quick date in our village. The food here is very interesting and delicious!! |
Govc Vrsnik in Robanoc Kot
After a disappointing day at Snovik we thought we need something amazing for the next day! We heard numerous recommendations from the locals in our village to go to Govc Vrsnik while we were there so we thought we would give it a try.
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| After driving through the mountains for a long time and thinking we were for sure lost we suddenly came upon this view... could this be it? |
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| We got out of the car and was immediately greeted by the sweetest little pup ever! |
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| It was like the set of a movie... absolutely breathtaking! |
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| We couldn't find anyone here. We knocked on doors, rang bells, but no one was around... |
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| We were disappointed that everything was closed but still explored the area anyway |
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| Then a lady appeared! She owned the restaurant and lived there but said they were closed that day. I think we woke her up. I apologized for being there and we talked for a while. She spoke very good English and was so sweet. She wanted to know all about us and why we were in Slovenia. Then she said she had a little soup and invited us inside. We were really surprised! The first thing she did was give us some kind of drink with blueberries in it. I still don't know what it was but everything they serve there, they grow right there on their farm... so we thought it must be ok. ;) |
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| Then she brought out 2 bowls of soup that we devoured! |
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| One was a cream of mushroom type soup with handpicked mushrooms and a potato puree and the other she said was a beef soup but had, what I thought was potato peels in it .... it was actually little strips of pancakes cut up. It gave the beef broth the most unique flavor! I was so surprised! |
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| The pancake soup was Whitney's favorite! |
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| After soup the kids just couldn't wait to get back outside and run around, explore, play with their dog, etc... |
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| Little did they know that more food was on the way! While the kids played king of the mountain we had a feast! Where did all the food come from???? I don't know how she whipped all this up so fast and unexpectedly!! We had cheese dumplings, pork cutlets in some kind of gravy with a berry jam on the side, grilled onions, fried noodles and some type of beef that was filled with something that tasted like stuffing. The different, but complimentary, flavors of all of these foods mixed together was the most memorable part of my entire trip! I know that sounds funny but it was really amazing!! |
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| After dinner we all enjoyed exploring their farm a little more... especially Kayla! :) |
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| This place was the highlight of our trip. We want to come back here and stay a few days in one of their rooms. Actually... I would like to just move here and never leave! Seriously!! |
Exploring Luce
We enjoyed spending a day just enjoying our village. We LOVED Luce. The locals were all so nice... even the teenagers!!
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| This is the neighborhood dog that would greet us every morning and evening |
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| Stopped at the a little cafe for the best hot chocolate we've ever had!!! It was thick like pudding but didn't just taste like melted chocolate chips like other thick hot chocolates in Europe. It actually tasted like pudding. It was awesome! |
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| LOTS of firewood everywhere! I think this was the only way people heated their homes. The entire village smelled like burning wood... it was fabulous! |
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| Saying goodbye |
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| This is the fire that heated the snuggie in the snuggle room below |
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| The snuggle room. The large box thing behind Whitney was the snuggie that was nice and warm while we ate our last supper in our house. |
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| After dinner, one last game of Yahtzee!! |
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| There *MAY* have been some cheating going on.... but Aiden won and Connor got 2nd. Everyone else was at least 100 points under them. |
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| I can't believe we have to leave this! |
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| Before we left I had to take a picture of these... what are they? They were everywhere but I have no idea what they are. Jeremy thinks they are hops. If anyone knows, please tell me!!! |
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| Back to Italy |
Sorry for so many pictures... I realized I took the same pictures every day I was there because each day the views took my breath away as if I was seeing it for the first time. Believe me, I deleted so many beautiful pictures trying to decide which ones to include here. Slovenia is only a 4 hour drive from our house and I know we will be back really soon!
**Olja - I thought of you the whole time we were here. Miss you!!!**
