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July 14, 2015 slovenia•travel

Travel Diary: Slovenia #1 – Lake Bled

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Lake Bled: Slovenia

I know it’s one of those things we all say, and you’re probably dead bored of hearing it, but: I heart travelling. Well, the actual act of getting from point A to point B maybe not so much, but the exploration of point B? Hell yeaah. I’m slowly ticking countries off my veery long ‘destination’ list, the latest being Slovenia, if you hadn’t seen me banging on about it enough already. 

But Slovenia is a country that definitely deserves to be ‘banged on’ about. It’s stunning. On this holiday, we managed to get in mountains (Bled), beach (Portorož), and city (Ljubljana), did a fair amount of cross-country bus rides and had a swell time. 

(This post is going to be pretty image heavy)

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part of lake Bled
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Bled Castle – with some pretty dramatic clouds

First stop: Bled. A town in northwestern Slovenia situated by a lake of the same name (funny that). We used it as a base to get to other areas of interest that were quite close by, but the town itself is really, really pretty. The lake is gorgeous, there’s a little island in the middle with a church that hosts numerous weddings because it’s just a tad magical.

I’d recommend staying in accommodation in the town if you’re planning to travel, the buses can be quite… oddly timed, if you’re doing what we did and planning it all out yourself (not with a tour group). Not to say that the public transport isn’t great, because it is, it’s just not all that frequent sometimes.

Mum had, conveniently, booked a hotel right by the bus station. Reading that I’ll forgive you for pulling faces, but Bled bus station is kind of more of a really large bus stop, and a 2 minute walk from our hotel – Hotel Jelovica Bled. It’s a really, really nice hotel. We went half-board, so got a buffet style breakfast and evening meal, which let us try a lot of Slovenian food without having to agonise over restaurant choice (it’s in the genes, apparently), and also saved us quite a bit of money. There are enough supermarkets around that getting lunch was really easy, though if you want to eat in the town centre there are plenty of places to choose from!

The lake also has a ton of things to do on it, we hired a rowing boat to get to the church island on our last day in the town, but there are plenty of places to hire Sup’s (standing up paddle boards), other boats, and do other water based activities. The lake also has a policy of no boats with engines allowed, so the water is really crystal clear too, aka, you can see aaaaaaaaaaaalll the fish.

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view of Bled from Bled Castle
Travelling Slovinia - UK blogger
rowing boats on the lake
the Church on the island on Lake Bled

On our first full day in Slovenia, mum decided that we’d be getting things off to a great start with going to see one of the natural attractions of the country: Vintgar Gorge. It’s a really photogenic spot with a walkway that runs beside and across, and two stunning waterfalls. You can take a bus or a taxi to get to the start of the walkway – the cost is about 1-2 euros. The gorge is also ticketed to help with the upkeep of the walkways, but pretty inexpensive, and they do student discounts if you can provide a student card.

waterfall no.2 at vintgar gorge

To get back to Bled, we decided to go on a bit of a trek through a section of the Triglav National Park, and through a couple of really cute villages. The building style reminded me so much of Austria, or some particularly alpine regions of France, and I have a feeling that the whole area would be magical in the winter. Maybe a tad bit hard to navigate but totally magical.

Day 2, we decided to go and see Triglav National Park more thoroughly, taking Bled’s Sunday service hop-on-hop-off bus to the final stop, somewhere up Triglav mountain. We didn’t actually scale the highest peak of the Julian Alps – mountaineers we are most definitely not – instead, we decided to wind our way down to some huts and more photogenic walking spots (are you seeing a theme yet?), that took us through quite a few fields of cows.

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intentionally finding things! mountain huts in Triglav national park

Once we were done with the mountains, it was time to head to a fossilised gorge with a very dubious trail. As in, there was no trail at certain points. At all. Straight up had to get physical with nature at certain points, along with incredibly steep cave climbs that seem like nothing in photos, when in fact they were practically vertical. We were aiming to walk from the gorge back to Bled as it seemed possible on all the maps we had, but we couldn’t figure it out… and then felt even more dumb when we’d managed to circle back to the exact point we’d entered the gorge trail. Competent hikers, yo.

prime example of ‘this looks less steep/scary than it actually was’ 

Once we’d extracted ourselves from mud and bracken, it was time to catch the bus back to Bled. Though there was a fair amount of road walking before we actually did. The best way to see a country is to explore, and all that, so we decided to hop (and by hop I mean limp… damn blisters) to a couple of stops down, considering the walk between each village was about 15 minutes. We actually could have walked the entire way back to our hotel, but the temperature wasn’t forgiving, and neither was the direct sunlight.

Day 3 was a trip to the larger lake of Bohinj, which is also stunningly beautiful in an unfair kind of way. We, once again, took the bus (really early), and managed to get off one stop after the one we originally wanted. As well as the lake, Bohinj also has a ski centre at Vogel, which has a cable car system to take you up into the mountains at any time of year. My little sister and I managed to crash a photoshoot for sports wear on a trail down… and there were also some people filming BMX riders, so it was allll happening up in the mountains that day. Plus we ate our lunch with goats. Baby goats. So yeah.

It wasn’t the sunniest of skies in the morning, and since that was when we’d decided to do the ‘up the mountain’ thing, most of the panorama shots I got were fairly misty. Had we gone later in the day, when the sun was, once again, positively blaring, I’m pretty sure the views would have been spectacular

Lake Bohinj

Bohinj also has a waterfall that we decided not to go and see, but we did do the lakeside walk from one end to the other on the mountains side. It’s a lovely walk, with lots to explore and was going absolutely brilliantly until I saw not one, but two snakes. I really don’t like snakes.

Like the #trooper I am, I kept going, and we managed to make it back to the town of Bohinj without any other incidents and thoroughly enjoying the scenery. Did I mention that Slovenia was really, really pretty already? I don’t think I did. It’s really really pretty. 


I think this is a good a place as any to end part 1 of this travel diary, considering what was left of day 3 was spent on a bus back to Bled, and this post is probably going to be a nightmare to load as is. I’m also working my way through all the footage I took when I wasn’t taking photos, and am going to try and compile it into a few videos to go along with these posts, so please anticipate that!

Have any of you been to Slovenia? Where did you go – any of our places match up so far???

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  1. Carina G. says

    July 14, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    Such gorgeous photos !xoxo,http://atwednesdaysiwearpink.blogspot.com/

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    • Fii Cridland says

      July 15, 2015 at 1:54 pm

      Awh thank you so much! It's the first holiday I've taken my dslr on :Dxo

      Reply
  2. Sylvia Said says

    July 15, 2015 at 3:27 am

    Oh, my gosh what an adventure! Call me silly but those rowing boats on the lake look so. . .romantic <3 Ahhh a breakfast buffet sounds so good to me right now. . .and its not even morning over here haha! Hope your trip continues being amazing~xxxShe Will Be

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    • Fii Cridland says

      July 15, 2015 at 1:57 pm

      It really was, I haven't been on a family holiday for years, and mum always likes to keep us active… The lake was honestly so gorgeous! All the different types of boats and the weather was so good to us, all the ~boat~ photo's I took are postcard worthy aha! xo

      Reply
  3. Bash Harry says

    July 15, 2015 at 4:47 am

    Oh my gosh, Slovenia looks incredible! Bohinj is such a stunner, so vast and huge. I could stare at it forever.xx Bash | Bash Says Hey | bloglovin'

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    • Fii Cridland says

      July 15, 2015 at 1:58 pm

      It's a really stunning country, and Bohinj was giving me major middle earth vibes with all the mist when I was up Vogel, def worth an explore if you're ever heading that way! xo

      Reply
  4. Selinas Inspiration says

    July 15, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    Wow great pictures! Slovenia really looks amazing! Love the boat picture :-)xxSelina | Selinas Inspiration

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    • Fii Cridland says

      July 15, 2015 at 1:59 pm

      Awh thank you! It's a beautiful country, I definitely recommend going to explore it! xo

      Reply
  5. - Karen says

    July 15, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Wow, such a scenic place! Definitely on my bucket list :)Style Sunrise☀ :)x

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    • Fii Cridland says

      July 15, 2015 at 2:00 pm

      Yess!! It's so peaceful, and the river path around Bled is awesome to go for a run along~ xo

      Reply
  6. Alex says

    July 15, 2015 at 2:26 pm

    I live in Trieste (Italy), which is really close to Slovenia 🙂 I often go to Slovenia to do shopping, or visit some amazing place. I agree with you, there are amazing places to see over there and I'll be there in less than 2 hours so it's PERFECT!

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    • Alex says

      July 15, 2015 at 2:32 pm

      Opps, I forgot to say I went to Bled, Bohinj, Lubjiana, Portoroz, Koper, Maribor, Postumja Caves (they're really beautiful) and a lot of other places. And, yes, your pictures are amazing. Slovenia should use them to promote the Country 🙂

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  7. Susan Dollparts says

    July 15, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    this looks so pretty, I´ve never been to Slovenia 🙂 xxdresses-and-travels //@susandollparts

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  8. Jennifer Jayne says

    July 15, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    Wow what a fantastic place, amazing photos.Jenn | Jennifer Jayne

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  9. Tanya Golubeva says

    July 15, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    Lovely post!!!! Great photos.Check my blog What makes you beautiful

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  10. Mia says

    July 15, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    Great photos, I always wanted to go to Slovenia sometime! :)Urban Obsessions // Vegan Food & Lifestyle Blog

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  11. Talisa Tossell says

    July 15, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    It’s the night before my holiday and I should really really be sleeping but I can’t stop reading your blog haha! Loved this post. My Little “ROAD TRIP” Box Review JULY 2015

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  12. Sybil says

    July 16, 2015 at 3:34 am

    absolutely breath taking pictures!! 😀 thanks for sharing!back to blogging at animated confessions

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    July 16, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    What if we follow each other? Let me know, sweetie!With love, Nastya Deutsch ♥http://nastyadeutsch.blogspot.ru/

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