Another road trip today. Plan was to visit two towns and a mountain.
First stop was a town north west of Ljubljana, Škofja Loka. A very small town, along the Sélška Sóra river. Was recommended in the guidebooks as a good stop on a day trip. It was a pretty little town, and there were a number of busses in the parking lot, so others had the same idea. However, there weren’t many tourists walking the town, or up at Loški Grad, the castle in this town. The castle had a small but well done museum with local history, local fauna, and local sports heros. We spent maybe an hour in total walking the streets and visiting the castle and museum. Then it was off to town number two.
Kamnik is a town located in the hills north of Ljubljana. Again, a pretty little town with not one, but two castles. We visited one, Zaprice Grad, which had a museum (which we didn’t visit this time), and then had a nice Italian lunch in the town. Not many tourists here.
Final destination was way up in the mountains. Velika Planina is an outdoor museum of shepherd huts and buildings on a plateau in the mountains north of Ljubljana. We drove the winding road, full of switchbacks and vertical drops off the side of the very narrow two-way road for about 40 minutes. When we were about 6km from the destination (or at least, the destination Google maps had plotted for us) the road turned into a gravel road. Given the road we had just travelled, the fact that many cars were parked in a lot at that point, obviously with hikers taking the rest of the route (lots of hiking trails in these mountains) and that the Renault is only front wheel drive, we decided we would call it a day at that point. So we never made it completely to our last destination, but we had a fun drive in the mountains (Lisa might define fun differently).
Tomorrow is our last day in Ljubljana, and Lisa and I haven’t quite decided how we are going to spend it, so you’ll have to tune in to tomorrows blog to find out!
