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Slovenia

Photo Friday: Big Guy, Little Car

September 2, 2011

Luge ride at Lake Bled, Slovenia Happy Beginning of a Holiday Weekend Friday! Polento Sankanje is a luge ride in the storybook village of Bled, Slovenia. You take a ski chairlift up to the top of the mountain and admire the spectacular view of Lake Bled with its island and overlooking castle. Then you get [...]

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Destination Discovery: The World’s Oldest Grape Vine in Maribor, Slovenia

June 30, 2010

More than 400 years old, this grape vine is reported to be the world’s oldest. Up close, this grape vine looks mature, but normal. But this isn’t just any grape vine. It’s more than 400 years old and the oldest known producing vine in the world (according to the sign beside the vine and Guinness’s [...]

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Day 66: Train from Ljubljana to Innsbruck: Sunshine to Tyrol

July 9, 2007

This morning we left Ljubljana after 8 days in Slovenia. We are now traveling on a train to Innsbruck, Austria. Austria will be the 16th country of our trip, after visiting Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Gibraltar, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. From Ljubljana, we rode the same train to [...]

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Day 64 A mad dash to the train; the world’s oldest grapevine

July 6, 2007

Mr. Jones can run. Fast! This was witnessed today by Mrs. Jones enroute from the hotel to the train station. We were making a day trip to Maribor, in the northeastern part of Slovenia, south of Graz, Austria. Mrs. Jones was a little slow and we left the hotel at 8:20 for an 8:30 train. No problem, [...]

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