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The Perfect Slovenia Road Trip Itinerary

December 24, 2024
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Slovenia

Slovenia is a hidden gem hiding in plain sight. Located in south-central Europe, it’s definitely one of our favourite countries to visit, and we have done so many times. Slovenia is filled with stunning alpine lakes, towering peaks and green rolling hills, large and impressive cave systems, beautifully preserved medieval towns and imposing hilltop castles. Although many sights and attractions can be explored by public transit, most of the ones we describe below are more easily visited as part of...

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Best Day Trips from Ljubljana

December 20, 2024
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Slovenia

Ljubljana is one of our European cities. We’ve been multiple times to Slovenia and we keep getting drawn back to its beautiful and colourful capital. In addition to all the great things one can see and do in Ljubljana, its position still makes it an ideal base from which you can explore several fantastic destinations located within about an hour’s drive. To help you plan excursions and get the most out of your time in the area, we put together...

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Best Things to See and Do in Ljubljana (Slovenia)

December 19, 2024
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Slovenia

Having been to Ljubljana several times, we can say with certainty that it is one of our favorite cities to visit in Europe. Slovenia’s capital is colorful, compact, very photogenic, and has a charming small-town feel despite sharing many similarities with larger European capitals. Moreover, the city is very pedestrian-friendly making it easy to explore on foot, has a fantastic medieval old town center and hilltop castle, is a recent former winner of the prestigious title of European Green Capital,...

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Best Day Trips from Lake Bled

December 13, 2024
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Slovenia

Lake Bled is one of our favorite places to visit in one of our favorite countries, Slovenia. As a result, we have visited the area multiple times and put together several travel guides on Lake Bled. We have a guide on the Best Hikes and Walks around Lake Bled, a guide on the Best Photo Spots and Viewpoints Around Lake Bled, and a guide on the Best Things to See and Do in Lake Bled. Beyond all the great things...

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Best Things to See and Do in Lake Bled (Slovenia)

December 11, 2024
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Slovenia

With its scenic clifftop medieval castle, shimmering blue-emerald waters and picturesque church sitting on a tiny tear-shaped island, it’s hard to find a place that embodies the definition of a fairytale destination more than Lake Bled. Sandwiched between the Julian Alps and the Karawanks in northwestern Slovenia, Lake Bled is equally enjoyed by sightseers and outdoor enthusiasts alike, with many activities and attractions to keep you busy for days. To help you plan your visit to this beautiful destination, we...

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A Guide to Slovenia’s Škocjan and Postojna Caves – Which Should You Visit?

December 8, 2024
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Slovenia

Slovenia is blessed with several impressive and unique cave systems that visitors can easily explore. The Postojna Cave (Postojna Jama) is Europe’s most visited cave system, featuring an underground train ride that traverses several chambers that are filled with stalagmites and stalactites of all shapes and sizes. It is also near the impressive Predjama Castle, the world’s largest cave castle. The Skocjan Caves (Škocjanske Jame) are a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is home to one of the world’s largest underground canyons. Both...

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A Guide to Visiting Slovenia’s Beautiful Alpine Plateau, Velika Planina

December 3, 2024
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Slovenia

Velika Planina is a stunning alpine pasture in northern Slovenia where you can find one of Europe’s few surviving high mountain herdsmen’s villages and enjoy easy hiking trails among free-roaming cattle during the summer months. It’s a fantastic place to enjoy some time outdoors while learning about the unique traditions of the local herdsmen and sampling some of their delicious dairy products. Although you can undertake a challenging hike to reach Velika Planina from the valley below, it’s definitely more...

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Best Things to See and Do in Škofja Loka (Slovenia)

November 30, 2024
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Slovenia

Škofja Loka is a charming countryside town in northwestern Slovenia with a well-preserved medieval historic town center. Located a short distance from Ljubljana and nestled in the foothills of the Julian Alps, it makes an excellent day-trip option from the capital city. The town is small enough that it can be visited in an hour or two but with enough things to see and do (including visiting a hilltop castle and several scenic bridges) to keep you busy for a...

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Best Things to See and Do in Radovljica (Slovenia)

November 28, 2024
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Slovenia

Located a short distance from Bled, Radovljica is a charming little town in northwestern Slovenia with one of the best-preserved medieval old towns in the country. Architecture and history buffs will love it and anyone interested in strolling through scenic medieval streets will have a blast as well. The town is quite small and doesn’t require a lot of time to visit, and thus makes a great stop when travelling either to from the picturesque Lake Bled. Most people will...

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Best Photo Spots and Viewpoints Around Lake Bled, Slovenia

September 30, 2024
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Slovenia

Lake Bled truly feels like it came straight out of a fairytale. Located in northwestern Slovenia, the picturesque lake is backdropped by a hilltop castle and imposing mountains and is home to a tiny island on which resides a photogenic little church. There’s so much beauty around that you will be undoubtedly tempted to take a ridiculous amount of pictures while exploring the area. If you are short on time however and want to know all the best spots to...

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‘Tis the Season - part deux
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec (pics 1-5)
📍Montréal, Québec (6-9) The Story of December 25th *******************
❓Do you why Is Christmas is celebrated on December 25? Although Christmas was originally intended to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the actual date of that big event is lost to history. In fact, for the first three centuries of Christianity’s existence, Jesus Christ’s birth wasn’t celebrated at all. The first official mention of December 25 as a holiday honouring Jesus’ birthday appears in an early Roman calendar from AD 336. But was Jesus born on December 25 in the first place? Probably not. The Bible doesn’t mention his exact birthday, nor the time of year for that matter, and the Nativity store contains conflicting clues with a December birth. For instance, the presence of shepherds and their sheep suggests a spring birth. One theory is that when church officials settled on December 25 at the end of the third century, they likely wanted the date to coincide with existing pagan festivals honouring Saturn (the Roman god of agriculture) and Mithra (the Persian god of light). That way, it became easier to convince Rome’s pagan subjects to accept Christianity as the empire’s official religion. Despite its popularity today, this theory of Christmas’s origins has its problems. It is not found in any ancient Christian writings, for one thing. It’s not until the 12th century that we find the first suggestion that Jesus’ birth celebration was deliberately set at the time of pagan feasts. We might never know with any certainty why December 25th was chosen for Christmas. *******************
#christmas #december #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmas #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #quebeccity #quebec

‘Tis the Season
★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀彡★ 📍Québec City, Québec The Story of Christmas Trees (and Charlie Brown) *******************
❓Did you know that the first artificial Christmas trees were made with Goose feathers? These trees were then later refined by a company specializing in …. toilet brushes!!! Artificial trees came about during the 1880s in Germany, after Christmas trees became so popular that Germany’s number of trees noticeably declined. Deforestation became a real problem so to combat this, the Goose Feather artificial tree was created. Goose Feather trees were created using actual goose feathers, which were dyed green and and split, secured by wire to form branches. Those wires were attached to dowels which made up the roots. These became quite popular in Germany and soon spread throughout Europe, and even to North America. However, contrary to real trees, these versions couldn’t hold many ornaments because they weren’t particularly sturdy. In the early 1930s, the Addis Brush Company in Britain realized that there must be a better way to build an Artificial Christmas Tree. The brush company was best known for making the first toilet brush and used those same bristles (dyed green) to create leaves on artificial trees. These could hold significantly more weight than goose feather trees. In the late 1950s and early 1960s silver aluminum pine trees were in vogue, most of which included a color wheel, a rotating plastic disc that projected colored lights onto the tree’s reflective surface. **
Then Charlie Brown arrived and killed the aluminum tree. That’s right, in 1965, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” aired for the first time, and its negative portrayal of aluminum Christmas trees is credited for the aluminum tree market collapse. Most aluminum tree production companies ceased production by 1970. ******************* #holidayspirit #wintermagic #montreal #mtl #holidaydecorations #traveldestinations #christmastime #xmasvibes #xmas #xmas2023 #holidayseason #explorequebec #BonjourQuebec #xmasdecorations #xmasiscoming #winter #winterwonderland

First Snow ★彡𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼

Cloudy Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Into the Badlands
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Canadian Badlands, Alberta Though the name may seem self-explanatory, early French explorers actually gave the Canadian Badlands region its current name, referring to them as “bad lands to cross” due to this region’s steep-sloped, flat-top mountains and deep, winding gullies. The Canadian Badlands were formed more than 13,000 years ago as a result of glacial meltwater from the Laurentide ice sheet. *******************
❓Did you know that the Canadian Badlands are home to the largest deposits of dinosaur bones in the world? Within the badland region, you will find both Dinosaur Provincial Park and The Royal Tyrrell Museum, just west of Drumheller, a town often referred to as the “Dinosaur Capital of the World” and is also where you’ll find the world’s tallest dinosaur statue, standing at roughly 4.5 times the height of an actual T-rex. The Royal Tyrrell Museum houses one of the best fossil collections in the world (pics 9-10), including five specimens that are Guinness World Record holders. You can see three of them on display at the museum year-round, including the largest marine reptile, the most complete tyrannosaurid skeleton and the best-preserved armoured dinosaur in the world. *******************
#Drumheller #badlands #intothebadlands #canadianbadlands #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody #naturescenes #moodylandscapes

Dramatic Lakes
𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Gosau Lakes & Gosau Valley, Austria *******************
❓Did you know that, although we are nearly a month away from the shortest day of the year (in the northern hemisphere), several towns and inhabited settlements in the northern hemisphere have already said goodbye to the sun for 2024? Such places experience what is known as a polar night, when the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon for several weeks at a time. Utqiaġvik (Alaska) is home to around 4,500 people, and they haven’t seen the sun since November 18th, and won’t see it again until January 23rd. Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost settlement with a population greater than 1,000 and the largest inhabited area of Svalbard, Norway, hasn’t seen the sun since November 11th, and won’t see it again until January 30th. Though the polar night isn’t as long in Murmansk, Russia, lasting from December 1st to January 10th, the town has a large population of nearly 300,000 people (the largest city in the world that is north of the Arctic Circle). That’s a lot of folks that soon won’t see the sun for a while. *******************
#alpinelakes #austria #gosaulakes #traveltheworld #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #mountainscenery #mountainscape #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits #landscapephotograpy #landscape_photography #landscapelovers #moody

Medieval Castles 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗

Jagged Peaks 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆

Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅

$Where Grey Skies Meet Blue Waters 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 📍Yoho National Park Yoho is one of my favourite National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. Banff and Jasper get most of the spotlight, but Yoho is no less beautiful with its stunning Emerald Lake - with a fraction of the crowds. ******************* ❓Did you know that the first non-indigenous person to set sight on Emerald Lake didn’t do so until 1882? Canadian guide Tom Wilson stumbled upon it by accident when a string of his horses had gotten away, and it was while tracking them that he found himself in the valley leading to the lake. What a beautiful surprise! ******************* . . . . . #emeraldlake #yoho #yohonationalpark #canadianrockies #landscapelovers #landscapephotos #hiking #hikingshots #mountainscenery #mountainscape #mountainphotography #turquoiselakes #moodyscenes #moodynature #moodyedits$

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