Slovenia… I think I love you ❤️

We left our less than perfect parking spot next to the noisy road in Italy as quickly as possible, hoping for a better tonight!
The drive today took us from Italy🇮🇹 , back through Austria 🇦🇹 and into Slovenia 🇸🇮 .
Travelling through Austria along a seemingly endless stretch of road that runs parallel to a beautiful green valley, surrounded by mountains on all sides and as far as you could see into the distant horizon . The mountains we could see had changed in shape and were now very jagged and tall, but we weren’t heading towards them as we were now turning east and headed away from the high mountains.
Shortly after crossing into Slovenia 🇸🇮 we found a lovely picturesque embankment right by the side of quite a large but fast flowing river. It had a wooden cafe on the shore and a large floating raft/ barge type construction that had tables and chairs for people to have coffee and cake on the river. It wasn’t actually open while we were there but we didn’t mind that in the slightest as that meant it was quiet and people free. We were alone until another camper arrived which was ok as they parked a fair distance from us and kept themselves to themselves. We took our drinks 🍷 and sat ourselves on the wooden decking just behind the cafe, sheltered underneath a pitched rooftop. Before long the heavens opened up and we were stranded, unable to escape without getting a proper soaking. So we sat and waited for the rain to pass. It was actually really lovely and quite romantic sitting watching and listening to the rain splashing down in to the river in front of us. Protected by the wooden roof above, we were surrounded by leafy plants, it was warm and humid. It somehow felt like we were in the Amazon rainforest, certainly the closest thing to that I’ve ever experienced anyway.Read more