Slovenska Bistrica (Slovenia)

Each time we go to stay at our flat in Slovenia we try to incorporate one overnight stay somewhere we haven't been before. This time, however, due to a mixture of the terrible Pound rendering the exchange rate virtually one for one and a few domestic issues that required attention in Maribor, we decided to make only day trips to places not too far away. Initially I didn't even consider Slovenska Bistrica to be a place at all because when the train between Maribor and Ljubljana stopped there all I could see were small groups of cottages on the mountains of the Pohorje Massif. Perhaps I was sitting on the wrong side of the train but there didn't seem to be a town at all. I ...  Read the complete review