Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Drinking
Cinca Marinca
( 389 13 03; Trg Svobode 10; 7am-11pm Mon-Fri, 7am-late Sat & Sun)
This cafe-
bar is just the place to cool your heels and slake your thirst while waiting for the bus to
stop outside. It's open late when the rest of Kobarid has gone to bed early.
BAR
Pri Gotarju
( 388 57 43; Krilanova ulica 3; 7am-11pm Sun-Thu, 7am-midnight Fri & Sat)
This
cafe-pub in a shady garden is a pleasant place for a drink. There's a rusting WWI 150mm
Krupp howitzer opposite the entrance.
PUB
Information
Abanka
(Markova ulica 16)
Nova KBM Banka
(Trg Svobode 2)
Post Office
(Trg Svobode 2; 8-9.30am, 10am-3.30pm & 4-6pm Mon-Fri, 8am-noon
Sat)
Tourist Information Centre Kobarid
(TIC; 380 04 90;
www.dolina-soce.com
;
Trg
Svobode 16; 9am-1pm & 2-7pm Mon-Fri, 10am-1pm & 4-7pm Sat & Sun)
Free inter-
net.
Getting There & Away
There are half a dozen buses a day to Bovec (€3.10, 30 minutes). Other destinations in-
clude Ljubljana (€11.40, three hours) via Most na Soči train station (good for Bled and
Bohinj), Cerkno and Idrija (€7.20, two hours) and Nova Gorica (€6, 1¼ hours, four a
day). Daily in July and August, buses cross the spectacular Vršič Pass to Kranjska Gora
(€6.70, three hours).
NOVA GORICA
05 / POP 13,178 / ELEV 92M
Nova Gorica is a university city straddling the Italian border, with tree-lined boulevards
and a couple of lovely parks and gardens. Slovenian, Venetian and Austrian influences can
be felt everywhere in the hinterland. It also straddles two important wine-growing areas:
Goriška Brda to the northwest and the wide Vipava Valley to the southeast, and is a decent
springboard for the Soča Valley, and the beautiful Karst region leading to the coast.
