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MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 10 – May 13 2023 Late last night my right foot started really hurting when I put any weight on it. Very early in the trip, the tendon below my ankle bone started acting up. Since we are on vacation and on vacation “Nothing else […]

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 9 – May 12 2023 We woke up and were excited to spend the day exploring Lisbon. It’s hard to have a bad morning when your balcony view is this: The rooftop patio outside the bedroom We started off with breakfast at Heim Cafe. It

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 8 – May 11 2023 For our last morning in Slovenia, we had breakfast at Slovenia House, the same cafe we had those awesome charcuterie boards at earlier in the week. We had their patio to ourselves since it was cold and rainy. We ordered

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 7 – May 10 2023 It’s so sad we are half way through the trip!! We slept in a bit and went out for breakfast at Le Petit Cafe again. It was raining, but the patio was full this time. We were able to get

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 6 – May 9 2023 Of course, we had to start our day off with Fetiche Patisserie desserts! This time, we got the Yuzu and coconut dessert and a hazelnut and caramel dessert. To wash it down, some really good espresso. The caramel hazelnut dessert

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 5 – May 8 2023 The predicted weather was cloudy and rainy anywhere we would want to go. We decided the night before we would sleep in, get breakfast, and decide in the morning what the day would look like. We started with breakfast at

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 4 – May 7 2023 We can get used to waking up to this view. On our third full day of the vacation, we woke up, got ready, and jumped back in the car. The destination was Piran, an old Venetian city on Slovenia’s tiny

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 3 – May 6 2023 We had originally planned to hike lakes Bled and Bohinj, but changed at the last minute to give our feet a break for the day. Instead, we got in the car and drove out West towards the Austrian alps and

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 2 – May 5 2023 We woke up from a good, long sleep and felt refreshed and ready to get to know our home base for the next week, the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana. (pronounced Lube-Lee-Yah-Na) As we do with any Eurpoean trip, the first

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Slovenia and Portugal Trip Day 1 – May 4 2023 We made it!! But we are SO EXHAUSTED. We forgot how difficult international travel is since neither of us can sleep on a plane. By the time we landed in Slovenia, we had been awake for 24 hours and they