Heindls Schmarren & Palatschinkenkuchl
17 maja, Austria ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Final dinner in Vienna with the group at Heindls Schmarren & Palatschinkenkuchl near the Danube.
Naturally, Kaiserschmarren had to make another appearance 😄
The meal turned into a full Austrian Czytaj więcej
Maribor Walking Tour – Part 1
18 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
The day started with retrieving the car from Vienna’s park-and-ride lot — definitely the budget-friendly choice, though not without some logistical gymnastics 😄
From there, we headed straight Czytaj więcej
Rooster Coffee / Tovarna Kave
18 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
What a fantastic little coffee discovery.
Rooster Coffee serves beans from Tovarna Kave — and I’m fairly certain the roaster himself was working as barista when we visited.
Excellent coffee, Czytaj więcej
Maribor Walking Tour – Part 2
18 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
After coffee we continued exploring Maribor, including a quick stop at Maribor Castle — surprisingly compact for a castle sitting in the middle of the city.
From there we wandered slowly back Czytaj więcej
Sibon Wine Resort
18–19 maj, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
From Maribor we drove onward into the rolling wine hills around Jeruzalem.
This landscape is ridiculously beautiful: vineyards covering every hill, tiny churches perched on ridges, green valleys, Czytaj więcej
Jeruzalem
19 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
After breakfast at Sibon Wine Resort, it was time to say goodbye to mom and Thomas before everyone continued their journeys in different directions.
Before leaving the region, Sanjay and I stopped a Czytaj więcej
Maderkin Breg Lookout Tower
19 maja, Chorwacja ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Since we were already so close to the border, we couldn’t resist quickly hopping into Croatia just to say we had been there 😄
Our destination: Maderkin Breg Lookout Tower — the tower we had Czytaj więcej
Ptuj Castle
19 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Next stop: Ptuj Castle.
The castle overlooks the town beautifully and houses multiple exhibitions inside. Historic rooms, artifacts, and fantastic views over the rooftops of Ptuj and the surrounding Czytaj więcej
Ptuj
19 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
Ptuj itself feels wonderfully quaint: cobblestone streets, colorful facades, and quiet old-town charm.
One highlight was the famous Ptuj Town Tower — also called the Guardian of Time. The Czytaj więcej
Gostilna Sokol
19 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
By the time we reached Ljubljana it was already fairly late, so we went straight to dinner at Gostilna Sokol.
This restaurant appeared on so many recommendation lists during my research that we had Czytaj więcej
Le Petit Café
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Breakfast at Le Petit Cafe was the perfect relaxed start into the day.
Good food, friendly service, and wonderfully close to the hotel — though to be fair, Ljubljana is so compact and walkable that Czytaj więcej
Stow – Mestni Muzej
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Stow Coffee Roasters is clearly the specialty coffee name in Ljubljana, and their location inside the city museum is beautifully designed.
What stood out most though: the passion of the staff. The Czytaj więcej
Escobar Coffee Roaster
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
This stop turned into one of my favourite coffee stories of the trip.
Escobar Coffee Roaster had shown up in my research and happened to be near the highway toward Postojna Cave — so we decided to Czytaj więcej
Postojna Cave
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Postojna Cave is absolutely wild.
First, you board a little train that takes you ten minutes deep into the mountain before the walking tour even begins.
Then follows 1.5 hours through a surreal Czytaj więcej
Predjama Castle
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
And then somehow Slovenia delivered yet another completely unbelievable location: Predjama Castle.
Built directly into the mouth of a cave, the castle honestly feels like something straight out of Czytaj więcej
Gostilna Šestica
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Back in Ljubljana we had dinner at Gostilna Šestica.
The food itself was excellent:
bear goulash
venison steak
local wine
Very hearty and very Slovenian.
The service however felt a bit snobbier Czytaj więcej
Moji Štruklji
20 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Final stop of the evening: Moji Štruklji.
Štruklji are one of Slovenia’s classic comfort foods — rolled dough dishes that can be savory or sweet depending on the filling.
Since dinner had Czytaj więcej
Ljubljana Food Tour
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: food tours are the best way to explore a city.
You get local food, which comes with local history, which comes with stories — and while moving from Czytaj więcej
Ljubljana Castle
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Ljubljana Castle sits beautifully above the city and dominates the skyline.
One interesting detail: before becoming a museum and public gathering space, the castle served as a prison during Habsburg Czytaj więcej
Tri Marije Coffee
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Coffee stop number one of the afternoon: Tri Marije Coffee — a tiny coffee cart located at the public market.
And honestly? Outstanding coffee.
I chatted with the barista for quite a while and Czytaj więcej
Stow 2 Go
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Since I still couldn’t get the beans I wanted from the earlier Stow location, I headed to Stow 2 Go in the city center.
Again: super passionate staff and excellent atmosphere.
Unfortunately… Czytaj więcej
Crno Krno
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
After a quick sorbet stop at Vigo Ice Cream, we made our final coffee stop of the day at Črno Zrno.
Another lovely café with a knowledgeable barista, excellent cappuccino, and naturally… more Czytaj więcej
Koželj Wines
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
As the trip slowly approaches its final stretch, Sanjay and I decided to simply sit down and enjoy a quiet glass of wine in Ljubljana’s old town.
Koželj Wines turned out to be an incredible Czytaj więcej
Restaurant Breg & Evening Walk
21 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Final dinner of the evening at Breg after a relaxed walk through the city.
Wonderful service — including a very friendly waiter who kept addressing me as “Mister Marcus,” which admittedly made Czytaj więcej
Velika Planina
22 maja, Słowenia ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Today started early — very early 😄
Packing bags, loading the car, grabbing breakfast sandwiches, checking out of the hotel… the whole operation ran like a well-oiled machine because we Czytaj więcej











































































































































































































































































































