This September my boyfriend and I spent four beautiful days exploring Ljubljana, the Slovenian countryside and Lake Bled. I have come to realise that Slovenia feels a lot like a spiritual home for me, a country with a passion for nature, embracing the outdoors, preserving the planet and dreamy hideaways. ‘Effortless’ is not a word I often use to describe a capital city, but there are not many like Ljubljana. Slovenia’s laid back, charming capital doesn’t try hard to make…
Bundled into the front seats of our small hire car, we wound our way along one of the tiny lanes that cover much of the Slovenian countryside. Passing lush alpine forests, sprawling cornfields and pumpkin patches awaiting the autumn harvest. At times it reminded us of Switzerland, with quaint rural villages unchanged for years. A landscape peppered with wooden alpine roofs, chimneys gently exhaling plumes of smoke, gushing streams and solitary churches. Nods to a simpler, rural life were all…
