We collected our hire car for a week of driving around Croatia and Slovenia and drove north to the border, we still had to do the passport control unlike other countries in Western Europe where formal border crossings don't really exist. We hadn't been in Slovenia for long when we started seeing signs about a vignette, this sounded vaguely familiar to us from our previous European trip. A quick internet search told us that we should have been advised by the car rental company, as they knew we were going to Slovenia, and failure to have a vignette results in a €300 fine at the border when you leave, ouch! We took the next exit sign and purchased a vignette from a petrol station, hopefully we won't get fined!
We drove through the township of Bled and headed for Lake Bohinj, stopping for some lunch near the stone bridge before driving onto Vogel and taking the gondola up the Julian Alps and into Trivlag National Park. Once at the top of the gondola we took a chair lift up to the ski slopes where M took advantage of the patches of snow and hit K with a snowball.
We took our time heading back to the chairlift to head back down, and when we disembarked at the other end we saw a sign saying that the chairlift stopped at 4pm, and it was 3:57! We were lucky we made it, it would not have been fun to have ended up stuck at the top of the mountain having to walk all the way down.
The next stop was Slap Savica which was a climb of 550 steps to the highest waterfall in Slovenia before driving back to Lake Bled and our Airbnb in the tiny town of Selo where we were staying.
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