Day by day
Ten days, three regions, no rental car.
Decompression. The slow exhale of arrival.
- ✈️16:10 - 16:45Brussels Airlines BRU → LJU
- 🚌17:45Land at Ljubljana airport (LJU)
- 🚌18:15 – 18:45Airport shuttle or transfer to the city
Gami offers an airport shuttle — reply to the booking to ask price and book. Otherwise GoOpti / public shuttle, €10–15 pp, ~30 min.
- 🍽️Light dinner at Druga Violina
Traditional Slovenian; a foundation employing people with disabilities. Honest food.
- ☕22:00Early night
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The city revealing itself in layers.
- 🍽️Breakfast at Le Petit Café by the river
- 🍽️Open Kitchen at Pogačarjev trg
Fridays only — the city’s outdoor food market. Graze through samples.
- 📸Architecture walk
Triple Bridge → National & University Library (Plečnik) → Cobblers’ Bridge → Križanke.
- 🍽️Lunch at Klobasarna
Order the Kranjska sausage.
- 🥾Tivoli Park to the National Gallery or Museum of Modern Art
Pick one.
- 📸Metelkova
Europe’s most charming squatter-arts complex; every wall a mural.
- 📸Funicular up to Ljubljana Castle
Walk the ramparts, visit the Slovenian History exhibit.
- ☕Sunset drinks at Nebotičnik rooftop bar
Top of the 1930s “skyscraper”.
- 🍽️Dinner at TaBar
Small plates, natural wines, intimate room.
Postcard mountains in the morning, the Adriatic by nightfall.
- 🏨10:30Check out · Gami Ex-Factory LoftsGoogle MapsApple Maps
- 🚌07:30Store luggage at LJ train station
left-luggage lockers at the main station to pick up on the way to Piran later. Travel light to Bled.
- 🚌08:30Train to Lesce-Bled
~40 min, ~€7 pp; shuttle bus to Bled town.
- 🥾Walk the Lake Bled promenade
Go clockwise for the best castle views.
- 📸Pletna boat to Bled Island
Climb the 99 steps, ring the wishing bell. €18 pp round trip.
- 🍽️Kremšnita at Park Café
The famous Bled cream cake — the original since 1953.
- 📸Optional climb to Bled Castle
Panorama at golden hour. €15 pp.
- 🚌17:00Back to Ljubljana, collect luggage, bus to Piran
Train back to Ljubljana (~40 min), grab luggage from station lockers, then evening bus to Piran (~2h30, last connections ~19:00 — check Arriva/Nomago). Arrive Piran late evening.
- 🍽️Late, light dinner in Piran
Late arrival — keep it easy. Pri Mari saves nicely for tomorrow.
- 🏨15:00 – 00:00Check in · GG art apartments IIGoogle MapsApple Maps
First full day by the sea. Slow mornings, pastel walls, salt on your skin.
- 🏊Slow breakfast, morning swim off the rocks
A real Piran morning after last night's late arrival.
- 🍽️Lunch at Fritolin pri Cantini
Paper cones of fried fish on Trg 1. Maja, eaten standing.
- 🏊Walk to Punta and swim off the rocks
The lighthouse tip of town.
- ❤️Sunset on the Punta
The sun drops directly into the sea here.
- 🍽️Dinner at Pri Mari
Classic Istrian seafood. Order the fish baked in salt.
Pure stillness. Time stretches.
- 🏊Morning swim before breakfast
- 📸Tartini Square & up to the Church of St. George
Panorama over the red rooftops and the Adriatic.
- 🥾Walk the town walls
Short steep climb; the best view in town.
- 🍽️Lunch at Cantina Klet
Wine bar with small plates on the square.
- 🏊Beach afternoon at Fiesa
15-min walk along the coast; quieter than the town beaches.
- ❤️Wooden taxi-boat ride at golden hour
Ask at the harbour, ~€30 for an hour.
- 🍽️Dinner at Pavel 2
Terrace tables right on the water.
A culture you didn’t know existed.
- 📸Sečovlje Saltpans Nature Park
UNESCO-listed; salt harvested by hand for 700 years. ~20 min from Piran.
- 🥾Walk the boardwalks among the saltpans
Learn about the solinarji and their tools.
- 🍽️Lunch at Lepa Vida
Tiny spa & restaurant in the saltpans; optional open-air salt-brine foot soak.
- 📸Optional stop in Strunjan
Sea cliffs and a Mediterranean garden.
- 🍽️Dinner at Restavracija Galeb
Locally caught fish, terrace over the harbour.
- ❤️Last walk along the dark Punta
The lighthouse blinking; phosphorescent water if you’re lucky.
Transit day, but a beautiful one.
- 🏨07:00 – 10:00Check out · GG art apartments IIGoogle MapsApple Maps
- ☕Final swim, slow breakfast, check out
- 🚌10:00Bus to Ljubljana
~2.5h.
- 🍽️Lunch near the bus station
Falafel on Trubarjeva for a quick stop.
- 🚌13:30Bus to Bovec via the Vršič Pass
~3h — one of Europe’s most scenic rides. Window seat on the right.
- 🚌Valley bus Bovec → Kobarid, check in
From Bovec, the valley bus runs down to Kobarid (~30 min). Check in at Apartments Pri nas, in the centre of town.
- 🥾Settle in, walk to the river
- 🍽️Dinner in Kobarid
First night in the Soča Valley — an easy dinner in Kobarid town.
- 🏨15:00 – 22:00Check in · Apartments Pri nasGoogle MapsApple Maps
Kobarid on foot — the emerald river, a waterfall hidden in a rock amphitheatre, and the quiet ghosts of 1917.
- 🍽️Breakfast at the apartment
- 🥾Kobarid Historical Trail + Kozjak Waterfall
The ~5 km loop straight from town: across the Napoleon Bridge over the Soča, up to Kozjak Waterfall in its rock amphitheatre, then back past the WWI front lines and the charnel house. Easy half-day, no car needed.
- 🍽️Picnic lunch by the river
Pack from a Kobarid shop or the apartment kitchen — bread, prosciutto, cheese, a peach.
- ❤️Dare each other into the river
Glacial 12–14°C. Five seconds is plenty.
- 🏊Easy afternoon on the Soča
Back into town, then down to the Soča to laze by the river — a swim or a nap in the shade.
- 🍽️Dinner in Kobarid
Dinner in Kobarid — Topli Val (the Hvala family's seafood spot) or a casual pizza at Kotlar. Walkable from the apartment.
A short hop down the valley to where the Triglav rock splits open — Devil's Bridge, a warm spring, the cool of the gorge.
- 🍽️08:30Slow breakfast at the apartment
- 🥾10:00Tolmin Gorges (Tolminska korita)
Local bus Kobarid to Tolmin (~25 min), then walk the gorge loop — the lowest point of Triglav National Park. Devil's Bridge 60 m overhead, the warm Zadlaščica thermal spring, and the Dante's Cave path. Easy ~1.5 h. Entry ~€10pp.
- 🍽️12:30Lunch in Tolmin
- 📸14:30Afternoon: Boka Waterfall or a Soča swim
Either hop the bus toward Bovec for Boka Waterfall (Slovenia's highest, from a roadside viewpoint), or head back to Kobarid for a lazy swim in the Soča. Both car-free.
- 🍽️19:30Dinner at Hiša Polonka, Kobarid
Ana Roš's relaxed bistro in Kobarid (the casual sister to Hiša Franko) — house beer, local plates. Walkable from the apartment. Book ahead; ~€35pp.
Coffee in the mountain air, one last walk by the river, then the easy road to the plane.
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- 🍽️Long slow breakfast on the terrace
- 🥾09:00A last morning on the Soča
Riverside walk from the apartment, or one more swim in the emerald water before you pack up.
- 🚌13:00Shuttle Kobarid → Ljubljana airport
Pre-booked GoOpti/Nomago shuttle, ~2 h. Leaving Kobarid by ~13:00 gives hours of buffer for the 18:30 flight — no rush, no stress.
- 🚌18:30Flight to Brussels
Arrive ~20:15.
- ✈️18:30 - 20:15Brussels Airlines LJU → BRU