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A ten-day drive around the EU's other alpine member state:

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  • Passengers prepare to leave the chairlift in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
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  • Looking north, an aerial view of the rural town of Kamnik in central Slovenia, on 26th June 2018, in Kamnik, Slovenia. As one of the oldest towns in Slovenia, Kamnik was first mentioned in the 11th century. It was later first mentioned as a town in 1229, at the time when it was an important trading post along the route between Ljubljana and Celje. To the north are the mountain peaks of the Julian Alps that border Slovenia with Austria.
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  • A man passes-by the entrance of the Europa Hotel, on 23rd June 2018, in Celje, Slovenia.
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  • Seen through one of the tunnels, a visitor peers down into Tolmin Gorge (Tolminska Korita), on 20th June 2018, in Tolmin Gorge , Slovenia.
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  • Old windows with a child's doll inside, of a Slovenian village house on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Drying maize in a rural Slovenian village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Adventurous walkers negotiate moderate terrain in the rocky gorge near the 15m high Kozjak Waterfalls, part of the Kobarid Heritage Trail, on 21st June 2018, in Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • A young Slovenian climber tackles a rock face and tree at Ribcev Laz, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia
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  • Walkers follow an uphill route to Saint Michael's church, on 23rd June 2018, in Celje, Slovenia.
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  • Adventurous walkers negotiate moderate terrain in the rocky gorge near the 15m high Kozjak Waterfalls, part of the Kobarid Heritage Trail, on 21st June 2018, in Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • The tree house (Mestni Gozd, Mestni Hisa or Miklavski Hrib) in the Mestni Park forest above Celje, on 23rd June 2018, in Celje, Slovenia. The house was built using local money and EU funding and is used by local schools teaching nature and the environment and care of the woodland.
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  • Dirty window with local names and messages written on the glass,  on 25th June 2018, in Skofja Loka, Slovenia.
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  • Canoeists paddle through the Soca Gorge on the Soca River, on 21st June 2018, in Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • Yellow walls, wooden bannisters and railings in stairwell of a Slovenian building, on 23rd June 2018, in Celje, Slovenia.
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  • A sheep (unhurt and not trapped) tries to munch on grass under a railing in athe rural Slovenian town of Radovljica, on 22nd June 2018, in Radovljica, Slovenia.
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  • A Mute Swan eyes up the lunch being hidden by a nervous visitor to a rural central Slovenian town, on 25th June 2018, in Spilje, Slovenia.
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  • Adventurous walkers negotiate moderate terrain in the rocky gorge near the 15m high Kozjak Waterfalls, part of the Kobarid Heritage Trail, on 21st June 2018, in Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • An elderly local woman hunches over a small cart transporting freshly mown grass in a rural mountainside Slovenian village, on 21st June 2018, in Borjana, near Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • A rural Slovenian church and a local woman tending crops, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A man carries an umbrella past flowers and a traffic mirror, on 22nd June 2018, in Svino, Kobarid, Slovenia.
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  • With the highest peaks in Slovenia in the distance is a traditional Slovenian mountain hut in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Beyond are the mountains, Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
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  • Built early 19th century, the restored interior of the Dwelling house (Smitova Hisa) at the Rogatec Open Air Museum, very close to the Croatian border, on 24th June 2018, in Rogatec, Slovenia. The museum of relocated and restored 19th and early 20th century farming buildings and houses represents folk architecture in the area south of the Donacka Gora and Boc mountains.
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  • The wooden roof of a municipal building beneath the highest peaks in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Trenta, Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Nearby mountains are Kreiski 2050m, Pihavec 2419m, Dolina Zadnjica and Triglav 2864m.
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  • Hiking trail markers beneath the Prisank (2547m) mountain view at the top of Vrsic Pass in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Triglav National Park, Slovenia.
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  • Walkers rest at a picnic table that overlooks the jighest of Slovenian mountains of Triglav national Park, in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
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  • Visitors admire mountain views at the top of Vrsic Pass in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Triglav National Park, Slovenia.
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  • Clear mountain waters of the Savica river at Ucanc near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
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  • A landscape of Slovenian herders' holiday mountain huts in Velika Planina, on 26th June 2018, in Velika Planina, near Kamnik, Slovenia. Velika Planina is a mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps - a 5.8 square kilometres area 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) above sea level. Otherwise known as The Big Pasture Plateau, Velika Planina is a winter skiing destination and hiking route in summer. The herders' huts became popular in the early 1930s as holiday cabins (known as bajtarstvo) but these were were destroyed by the Germans during WW2 and rebuilt right afterwards by Vlasto Kopac in the summer of 1945.
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  • Canoes head out into lake Bohinj from at Ribcev Laz, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia
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  • Visitors walk a trail beneath Prisank (2547m) a mountain view near the top of Vrsic Pass in the Slovenian Julian Alps, on 22nd June 2018, in Triglav National Park, Slovenia.
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  • A fly-fisherman casts off in clear waters of the Sava Bohinjnka river, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • The wooden church (Ruska Capela) built by Russian Prisoners of War during WW1, in honour of their comrades who died building the Vrsic Pass road (Ruska Cesta) near kranjska Gora, on 22nd June 2018, in Triglav National Park, Julian Alps, Slovenia.
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  • Old musical instruments hang from a wall opposite an antique shop in the rural Slovenian town of Radovljica, on 22nd June 2018, in Radovljica, Slovenia.
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  • A trailer laden with freshly cut grass squeezes between walls in a rural Slovenian village, on 19th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A crucifix looks down on headstones in a rural Slovenian village church, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Discarded cross with a deceased person's name lying in a communal cemetery bin of a rural village in the Kozjansko Regional Park, on 24th June 2018, in Prevorje, Slovenia.
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  • Yellow lines sprayed to mark car parking areas in a rural Slovenian village, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A cafe parasol featuring the Ibex for Slovenian Lasko beer, a Slovenian favourite drink, on 20th June 2018, Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. Lasko Brewery is the largest brewery in Slovenia and named after the town of Lasko, where it is located. The brewery was founded in 1825 by Franz Geyer, a gingerbread baker and mead producer. After World War II ended in 1945, Lasko was the fifth-largest in Yugoslavia, and by 1991 it was the largest among 28 Yugoslav breweries. It lost much of the Yugoslav market in 1991 after Slovenia declared independence and the resulting Ten-Day War, although sales rebounded during the 1990s. In 2016 Lasko and Union were formally merged into Pivovarna Lasko Union under the owner Heineken.
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  • The tangled lines of parking bay markings in the rural central Slovenian town of Kamnik, on 25th June 2018, in Kamnik, Slovenia.
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  • The shadow from construction netting on a pedestrian pavement in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Stripes and shadows in an urban landscape of an underground car park in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • The Portuguese football fans are shown on a street TV screen bordered by international flags before their game with Spain in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Above the screen it reads: "Just like in the living room just better."
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  • Red Gernaiums growing in flower pots on a rural Slovenian village window sill, on 18th June 2018, in Kupljenik, Slovenia
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  • A riverside bookshop on Cankarjevo Nabrezje in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Two ladies walk up Miklosiceva Cesta (street) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • A boy dives into the cool waters of Lake Bled, on 18th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
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  • A child's balloon shadow on the wall of a cafe off Cankarjevo Nabrezje in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Held by a parent, a young child squeezes between the pillars of one of the Triple Bridges (Tromostovje) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Bus advertising on a city bus on Slovenska Cesta (street) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana city buses are operated by the Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) public utility company.
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  • Reserved parking cones are stacked outside the Intercontinental Hotel in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Bus passengers await the next service on Slovenska Cesta (street) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 25th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ljubljana city buses are operated by the Ljubljanski potniški promet (LPP) public utility company.
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  • A Christian religious shrine with a Jesus figure with a person waiting for a bus at a bus stop in rural Slovenia, on 18th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Visitors to the Cathedral of saint Nicholas use a phone while sitting in pews, in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • On their way to a concert that evening, musicians cary their bulky double-bass musical instruments through Levstikov street in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Shiny suits on display in a clothes shop window on Dunajska Cesta (street) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • A stall selling hats and fans at the market in Vodnikov Square in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Sports clothing mannequins in a shop window on Dunajska Cesta (street) in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • Exterior of a womens' clothes shop in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 28th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • A figure of Saint Stephen and a child in a rural Slovenian village shrine, on 20th June 2018, in Bohinjska Bela, Bled, Slovenia.
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  • Bled Castle seen through trees on a summers evening, on 17th June 2018, in Bled, Slovenia.
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