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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting that multiple people have said Slovenia. DH has Slovenian heritage and FIL was born there; it is high on our list of places to travel to in the next few years but I keep hearing about how it has just exploded in popularity in the last decade or so! Maybe just among the Europeans? [/quote]

Yes. Slovenia is the new Croatia. Croatia got super slammed with tourism during the era of Game of Thrones over the last decade since so much was filmed there. Now that it’s become a really saturated tourist market, people are heading a tiny bit north to Slovenia. Slovenia is beautiful, especially in the winter, and especially if you do skiing and outdoor winter sports. Lake Bled is gorgeous any time of year and it’s easy to get around. [/quote]

People figured out the Croatia has a lot of the same stuff as Italy and Greece since it’s basically crammed in with them and was historically part of the same community.  It somehow got stuck with Stalin after WW2 and people forgot all that.[/quote]

Stalin? You’re thinking about the wrong country. [/quote]

Yugoslavia was part of the Eastern Bloc which Roosevelt and Churchill gave to Stalin after WW2.  Tito managed to carve out a smidge more independence but it was still behind the iron curtain and therefore was not a travel destination for most of the second half of the 20th century.   And then after the death of the Soviet Union, there was a significant war there, so that definitely cut down on tourism for a period.  I don’t think most Americans really were aware of Croatia’s cultural ties to the Greeks and Italians until relatively recently.   [/quote]

Yugoslavia was a communist country during Tito, but in no way was it a part of the Eastern Block. Please stop spewing historically inaccurate nonsense. [/quote]

True it was nnot Waraw Pact, but it did maintain treaties (defense and otherwise) with every member of the Warsaw Pact. [/quote]

And it was also one of the only allies that the West had, so what's your point? [/quote]

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