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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tunnie on 23 March 2008, 19:56:37
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....from Slovenia.
Content Manager at the company i work for has a Apartment out there, so went for a week.
Fantastic country! Beer and food was so cheap, around £1.20 for a pint of beer. Food was dead cheap.... £3/4 for a big meal.
Petrol was around 81p a litre.
I booked a group N car from budget, (3 door VW Polo) got a free upgrade to group R, which was a Skoda Fabia Estate.
Was fantastic for space, got 4 people in with ease, 4 large suitcases, 4 rucksacks..
Roads where nice and smooth, cheap tolls too, 4 EUR to go half through the country. Although i found myself flicking full beam on at night when driving, even on the motorway at night when nothing was comming. I was having real problems seeing the road
Took me 2 days to realise what was wrong.... no cats eyes! Made me realise how good they are!
Due to the large amount of snow they get and have to use snow ploughs, they could not have cats eyes.
Damn did i miss my Omega though, No cruise control!!! the Fabia had a smooth ish ride, but nothing compared to the silky smooth of the Omega.
Fabia engine was rough and noisey... 70mph there was sooo much engine noise.
Got back into the Omega at London, soo much smoother, no engine noise. was good to be back.
The weather out there was very odd!! Heavy rain last Sunday, Monday was sunny, T-Shirt weather, Tuesday had a huge dumping of snow! Wednesday and thursday was very clear! Friday, Snow!
Some photos:
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0030.jpg)
View from the Apartment on Thursday....
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0355.jpg)
View from the Apartment the day before!!
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0018.jpg)
View at night...
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0001.jpg)
In Ljubljana the captial...
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC07912.jpg)
Roads in the Mountains
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0044.jpg)
Lake Bled near Austria
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0177.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0284.jpg)
Piran on the Adriatic Coast... more T-shirt weather!
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0390.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0379.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC_0429.jpg)
This Pub was rubbish...
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC08025.jpg)
And some dogey parking.... driving on the whole there was a good standard, fast roads, but their parking was awful... so i joined in! :D
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/DSC07998.jpg)
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Aghh chess board clothes ;D ;D
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You do take a damn good photo Tunnie :y
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Austria looks gorgeous Tunnie :y
Some nice pictures you have mate :y
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That bloke in your car in last piccy can't find the steering wheel ;D
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That bloke in your car in last piccy can't find the steering wheel ;D
I did walk up the the wrong side a few times myself ;D ::)
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You do take a damn good photo Tunnie :y
Cheers mate, I have a Nikon D80, although i don't really know how to use it! ;D ;D
Ones on Lake bled taken with a PLD filter, which makes the sky nice and blue, cuts down on glare, and can remove reflections.
I made this with some photos, shove them in the photoshop...
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l210/tunnie84/pano1.jpg
Save the above jpg to your computer, rather than view in firefox or IE, as you can zoom in! :)
The image looks small in the browser, but you should be able to zoom right into the church tower.
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any ideas for a next trip?
I am thinking Dubi or Tokyo
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Looks like Chris Evens in the parked car photo tunnie, you working for radio 2 ?????? ;D
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:y Smashing pictures Tunnie!......I love eastern Europe. ;)
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not as good as lake bala debs, ::) would be nice to go ther ,4 a trip, good pics
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Welcome back Tunnie, like the pics :y
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Some cracking photo's there,and welcome back :y
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:y