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Slovenia/Croatia (Lost Theory Festival)

StoneHappyMonday

StoneHappyMonday

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Any help and ideas appreciated. Just made a decision to drive to Croatia this summer for six weeks. Would love to spend some of this time in Slovenia and am thinking of heading to the Lost Theory festival mid August.

Any tips (Panda I'm looking at you) for places to go, people to see much appreciated.

One Love

SHM
 
Fucking bump in case some Slovenian or Croatian cunt comes in tonight.

Croatian land of the permanent festival man, Slovenia land of beauty er, P4nda.

Respect.
 
Ive been to both countries on holiday before, but cant really recommend much in terms of fun places to go...

I do love the Croatian seaside. I think i could happily retire there sometime, spend the last years i have watching the sun set in that beautiful sea... Dubrovnik is a gorgeous place to visit, as are most of the natural parks throughout the country. Didnt care much for the northern (Istria) part of the country, but might just be a matter of taste.

Slovenia feels a little like a younger/hipster version of austria, for better or worse.

Last I heard, both countries were pretty good places for a party... Outlook is a big festival in Croatia IIRC and should be at the beginning of september...
 
Thanks man. Fun = beauty as much as anything these days for me so I'm looking for beautiful scenery. And yeah, we're heading for the coast, Lost Theory is on some kind of headland or peninsular or some geographic term that failed me my O level.
 
isthmus?

(i've got a mate who spent quite a while in croatia - can't remember any details, but i'll ask him if he's got any tips when i see him and chuck them here (might be a month or two))
 
felix said:
Hah, OK then.

We visited an amazing (formerly German, now French) schloss in Alsace a couple of years ago: Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg.

Spectacular. Very cheap to get in. Restored by the mad German emperor Wilhelm II, so it's kinda fake, like Neuschwanstein, but well worth a visit. Architectural & historical eye candy. :)
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koneko said:
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Oh and SHM there was also an amazing Alsace eaterie at the bottom of the hill (not touristy), serving local dishes, local time, local way that wowed me. If you are passing by this area I'll look it out for you.

I liked Alsace and took an age to find a few real bits of local craft works / fabrics and food to bring home.
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StoneHappyMonday said:
Spectacular you say....hmmm....sell it to me more? Because its a 40 minute (so lets say an hour once faffed about) detour below Strasbourg. You'd have me heading south where my route, due to odd shaped roads, goes north for a bit. Doubling back that's a 2 hour detour. 40 mins/1 hour is just about on the cusp...you're fucking with my head here. Hmmm....going dead East from there to Schwangau is a fuck of a lot of B-roads. Be quicker to just double back north to Strasbourg. So worth a 1.5 to 2 hour detour or not?

PS I'll hold you both responsible. ;)
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koneko said:
Have you been to a concentration camp? :|

Natzweiler-Struthof is also nearby and if you haven't visited such a place then that's a good a reason if anything to do so :\ The impact that place had on me was immense... Why I like to travel to feel other people's experiences...but that bent my mind and made me understand things that no book or film could ever explain.
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felix said:
SHM: I wasn't actually suggesting that you change your route to accommodate that castle, I was just saying that German castles are cool as fuck and I hope you visit some. :)

However: that castle and the Natzweiler concentration camp were the highlights of our camping trip that year (to me), so if you're roughly in the area I would definitely check them out. The Alsace region is fucking beautiful, everywhere.

p.s. maybe start a new thread for this so we can all chime in and confuse you even more? ;) Do it!
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StoneHappyMonday said:
Its just that it was indeed close to the route, likesay 40 minute to 1 hour detour (plus back again) and it looked pretty neat. Don't know about the concentration camp. Never been to one but have been to Tuol Sleng (S21) in Phnom Penh where Pol Pot slaughtered his KR buddies. That was pretty heavy, blood's still on the walls. Glad I went, don't know if I care to repeat such an experience.

I tried a thread on this trip, got nowhere.

Here
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koneko said:
If you're sensitive like me then Natzweiler will give you "the" European dimension and understanding. Quite apt with what's going on today politically too..sadly

Anyhoo, its an interesting part of the world. Sometime's what's nearby is just as interesting as what's far flung.
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Route planning conversation. :)
 
Bless yer.

Eurostar going (£10 more expensive than the ferry, half an hour quicker, migrants permitting), ferry back.

Camping. Maybe the odd hotel but 95% camping.
 
I had no idea you were a camper. Are you taking your own stuff or going to places that are set up for you?

Can I ask what kinda car you have? (I like cars and I'm nosey. ;)))
 
We take our own stuff. Tbh, she is the camper, I'm just a camper's boyfriend - but I have been for twenty years so that's quite some marriage to camping now. We camped in Scotland 2011 for 2-3 weeks! We camp in Wales regularly. We glamp in England because her son usually pays (and he earns fucktons).

You are the second person in 2 weeks on this website to ask me about my car. The first person didn't get an answer either. :p Nothing flash, nothing shit, it's silver and it's diesel. :)
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
We take our own stuff. Tbh, she is the camper, I'm just a camper's boyfriend - but I have been for twenty years so that's quite some marriage to camping now. We camped in Scotland 2011 for 2-3 weeks! We camp in Wales regularly. We glamp in England because her son usually pays (and he earns fucktons).

You are the second person in 2 weeks on this website to ask me about my car. The first person didn't get an answer either. :p Nothing flash, nothing shit, it's silver and it's diesel. :)
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The more I read about L, the more I <3 her x Poor woman :p

So you're taking your own car? Or are you hiring? If your own you'll need all sorts of weird EU driving shit like you're own breathalysers and spare bulb set :D Mad eh.
 
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koneko said:
The more I read about L, the more I <3 her x Poor woman :p

So you're taking your own car? Or are you hiring? If your own you'll need all sorts of weird EU driving shit like you're own breathalysers and spare bulb set :D Mad eh.

Thank fuck you're not doing it on the back of a motorbike...:|
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felix said:
I was just wondering what type of car it was. People carrier, hatchback, Porsche 911...? ;)
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Hatchback. Leaving the Porsche at home.

Nah, the French stopped their stupid breathalyser law thank God. Got the rest...it's a fairly new car so it came with all that triangle, reflective jackets shit. As I found out the other day. :| I should look in the boot more often.

Avoiding Switzerland. Haven't got the chains/snow tyres. (Compulsory now...as is driving with lights on...I think...bloody europeans)
 
koneko said:
The more I read about L, the more I <3 her x Poor woman :p
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You might like to explain this to me too. At home, she does fuck all. Slight exaggeration, but not much. Tesco? Off you go G. Housework? Off you go G.

Stick her two feet outside a tent and she becomes a domestic Goddess. And if you didn't get it from that first line, she's the least domestic Goddess person in the world when a tent isn't involved.

There are times when I wish we lived permanently in a tent.
 
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