A week cycling trip in Slovenia. Bikepacking is the best holiday possibile. I took a train from Bologna (Italy) to Trieste, the last Italian town before Slovenia. I crossed the border with my bike and cycled the West Loop, it’s a gravel path on a GPS track made by the guys at bikepacking.com. It’s so perfectly explain that I’m not going into details about the road (like where to stop and where to camp), you can find all these informations and more in the link at the end of this description.
My trip was fantastic. After a rough beginning, as I couldn’t find the best spot and camping next to a church on a hill wasn’t the smartest idea under a stormy night. I got all the rain possibile. I wasn’t wet. My tent is super! But I was scared, I couldn’t sleep all night because the ground was shaking under the thunderstorm and the flashy light of thunders kept me awake till the morning.
But the second day I meet other travellers, they where next on a van (Cyril’s self-converted van) and two other travellers (one was travelling by bike and the one by her small van). We had a nice chat drinking coffee and I felt part of something.
Meeting people while travelling solo id very important as keeps your mind straight, if you don’t talk to people you risk of getting catch up in your thoughts.
That night I slept on a hostel in the middle of a forest. It was only 17 euros for a bunk bed in the dormitory (but I was the only one in the dormitory). I didn’t camp that night as I had to dry up clothes and tent, and it started raining heavily that evening too.
The third day I met two other bike travellers who where doing the Slovenia West Loop too!
But that’s for the next episode.
This is the track I followed.
Watch Valentin and Jonas cycling interview https://youtu.be/8mF9D-C0SB4
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Super!