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A Day Trip into Slovenia.
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This is a Day Trip we made in 2010 into Slovenia, just by car, from the caravan pitched on the Ossiachersee.
The closest pass from here is through the Karawanken Tunnel and then by non toll road to Bled just 1 hour.

This is over the Wurzen Pass impassable by Caravans which is the further West Pass of Karawanen Tunnel.

A New 1 day trip to Slovenia.
This is a trip into Slovenia we did and the scenery is stupendous.  

We left Jodl Camping on Ossiachersee at 10 am and made for Villach and onto the start of the Wurzen Pass then past the Bunker Museum a series of Bunkers built to protect Austria date 1955-2005. As the Museum was closed and we were not able to visit them see websites http://www.bunkermuseum.at/ and http://www.fsgfort.com/  for more information.

Further up the road, at the top of a steep hill, is a World War Tank on the left hand side of the road for info on this see the above websites.

Continuing over the border into Slovenia for which there is no toll, and as the roads are not Motorway, no Vignette is needed either.  You will reach a fertile valley and the village of Podkoren, tuning left at the crossroads takes you on to the famous skiing town of Kranska Gora arrival time 10.40 am.  So it took just 40 minutes to reach this town in Slovenia from our Campsite in Austria.  This is worth a stop to walk around and get a cup of coffee.  There are many ski runs and chairlifts close to the town. Leaving here at 11.44 am we reached the entrance of the Triglavski National Park at 11.51 am. and negotiated the 49 S bends and steep inclines.  We stopped at some Russian Military war graves from the First World War which was most interesting.  This road is also know as the Russian Road as it was built by their soldiers, as prisoners, during that war.  Further on we reached the summit of the road at 1600 metres where there was quite a lot of snow.

The next stop was a viewing platform over the valley we were a going to decend into later on, what a wonderful view!  This is the valley of the Soca River winding on its way to Kal Koritinica.  The water is very blue and there are many single foot suspension bridges of wood slates and metal spanning the river with wider ones for cars to various houses on the opposite side.  Also on the top here are the remains of the Austro-Hungarian Military telpher line over Vrsic during the First World War.

Further on you will pass through the villages of Trenta where there is a very good Information Office and a campsite, Camping Trenta, here we stopped nearby for our picnic lunch, beside the river, before entering the next village of Soca, there is Camping Triglav here, which looked quite nice, as did the site in Trenta.  Obviously to get to these sites with a caravan you cannot take the route we are on as they are Prohibited together with Lorries and Coaches.  You would have to approach from Bovec and Lubliana.  From the next village, Kal Koritinica, you can go on to Bovec a largish town for skiing and Rafting. Plenty of cafes, hotels and shops here.  This was our journeys end at 2.30 pm with mileage from Jodl Camping of 55 miles.  For an alternative you could go right in Kal up to the Italian Border and along the top road back to Kranska Gora but we decided against it as Tom Tom said it was an unpaved road.  Incidentlly Slovenia is now covered on the Tom Tom maps in detail.

On the return journey we stopped to take photo's of the Golobar Telpher Line built in 1931-35 and used up to 1989 when it was partly dismantled.  Then another stop to photo the statue of Botanist Dr. Julius Kugy at Bend No. 46, I believe that was the number.  You can understand his interest in this area is there is an abundance of wild flowers of all sorts, size sand colours. Leaving here we then traced our steps back to Jodl Camping arriving at 5.15 pm with total mileage of 111 miles.  It was a wonderful day out and certainly the best of the 4 passes we have taken over the Karawanken over the years.  The Scenery was wonderful as was the weather.


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2nd Day Trip to Slovenia.
 
Another trip to Slovenia to re-discover the Loiblpass.  Not passable by caravans, this takes a little longer to get to from Ossiach as you have to go through part of Klagenfurt via Mooseburg and Krumpendorf, the later being on the Worthersee. Then via the 91 to stop for diesel at 98 pence a litre sterling, wish it was same price in the UK.  Onward towards Ferlach crossing the River Drau and onto the Loibl Tunnel and Slovenian border.  Approximately 2 miles further on you come to a large lay by where you can stop and visit the Mauthausen memorial and the remains of the Concentration Camp here  which was the only one in Slovenia during World War Two 1943-1945 this was a branch of the Mauthausen Nazi Camp in Upper Austria.  The internees were French and helped to build this pass.  If they became incapable of work from exhaustion or bad health they were returned to Mauthausen where majority met their death.  About 40 internees were executed and cremated in primitive crematoriums.  29 of them escaped of which 22 were successful.

The Memorial designed by Architect Boris Kobe was inaugurated on 5th August 1954.

After a picnic lunch here we drove onto the Town of Trzic.  This looked very run down with many empty factories on the outskirts,and houses in the centre of the town.  Driving over the river following the signs to Information Office you can park in the Market Place and walk through the old buildings to the main street, where you will find the Information Office.  They speak English in there and have info in English free of charge.  The main street well there were about 4 diggers just digging up all the road and paths so together with the run down buildings it looked a sorry state. Any way we found a nice coffee house which served amazing cakes to use the Toilets and partake of there selection.  We then decided to explore the town.  More empty and occupied houses looking very run down some with bullet indentations in the outside walls and woodwork, from which war I have not been able to verify yet.   I would say only 10% to 20% of the properties were painted and shipshape.  What was so interesting most buildings still had the ornamental metal shutters and doors, manufactured in the towns metal factories , after a fire in 1811 which gutted over 200 houses and workshops an order was made that all buildings had to have metal shutters and main doors fitted.

If you continue up the main road there is a lovely ride up the Douzanov Sosteska Gorge alongside the babbling Trziska Bistrica river, this was very pretty and worth the extra trip before continuing on towards Golnik, Kranj and Jezersko along the Kokra River to the border at Seeberg Sattel into Austria and the town of Eisenkappel onto the Motorway and around Klagenfurt back to Ossiach.  Total day trip  leaving at 11.45 am and arriving back at the van 6-15 pm.   138 miles.   Another very interesting trip some of it where we had been before and a lot of new places too.



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3rd Trip to Slovenia

We decided to visit Volkermarkt about an hour east of Ossiach to visit a friend who was born in Norwich but lives here now having been in the army in Austria during the war and married an Austrian lady, who died some years ago and he now lives here with his Family.

We always come and take him out for lunch and a ride . This time to Slovenia just a few miles away. We went over Border at Hotmec just past Bleiburg. We turned East but it was very built up and Industrial so then turned West to Crna and the Slovenian Alps a beautiful ride to Sostanj, Nazarje, where we had lunch, then on to Ljubno, Solcova past Logarska Dolina National Park and up the winding pass to the minor border we have been over before back into Austria through Bad Eisenkappel, Eberndorf, Kuhnsdorf and into Volkermarkt to drop Peter off. Back to the van at 5.30 pm.



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4th day Trip to Slovenia

We went on this trip to Bled to look at campsite taking a couple stopping here at Jodl which they found on my website via Practical Caravan Forum. We left Jodl at 9.30 am and made for the Wurzen Pass via Villach. as we did not want to pay for vignette for 1 day. We then proceeded to Kranjska Gora stoping to view and take photo's at lay by above the village of Podkoren.

We had coffee at a cafe near to skilift and then walked around the small town. The Market Place and Church are worth looking at. We then went up the Soca Pass a little way and had a picnic lunch before starting our way south east to Bled via Jesenice. Driving into Bled at Lesce is a good Camping Sobec ***** it is left off the main road and is away from the town and quite rural. http://www.sobec.si. We went into the Reception and Brochure and they invited us to tour the quite large site by car. We stopped to inspect the Showers/Toilets and found them to be excellent, modern and pristine clean. The pitches were well kept grass areas with many trees surrounded by the Sava River. Lovely Shop, Restaurant, with Playgrounds, tennis and mini golf. Free WiFi. Not ACSI but 5% discount for members of ACSI, and ADAC or 10% for over a 7 day stay. It is quite a way from the town of Bled but I would be tempted to stay there if taking the caravan into Slovenia.

Next we went through the town and along the stunning Lake Bled to Camping Bled ***** http://www.camping-bled.com Again we asked for permission to view the site by foot this time and inspected the Toilets/Showers, Laundry room. Both blocks were excellent and pristine and modern. Pitches are grassed in trees with a few hedges here and there. Restaurant looked nice, Reception was very friendly and helpful. Now takes ACSI CC.

Our view of both sites was they were excellent one being right out of Bled and the other on the Lake near to town. I feel Sobec was the nicest of the two after inspecting both. For a MH Bled would be better as nearer to the Lake .

While in Slovenia you must sample the Creme Schnitter a local delicacy.

We then made for Austria again this time over the Pass and through Loibltunnel, to Klagenfurt, along the Worthersee and back to Ossiachersee and the caravans


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