Edmundo and I drive out to Lake Bled today, leaving our travelling companions, the Turners, to have a ‘rest day’. We row to the island in the middle of a tranquil lake of aquamarine and climb 99 stairs to reach the 17th Century Church of Mary the Queen to ring the bell in …
Slovenia has an excellent Tourism slogan . . . . . “I FEEL sLOVEnia”. And I have to agree! Driving into Slovenia from Italy, I’m still trying to get my head around what Slovenia’s part was in the Austro-Hungarian Empire that ended after World War I. There’s a definite ‘Austrian’ feel to the countryside as …
We left through industrial sections of Trieste past dockyards and chimneys of old factories, through tunnels and emerged in such beautiful green countryside. Silhouettes of tall pines reaching for an impossibly blue sky on one side, while a ‘South Pacific’ blue/green sea, dotted with sailing boats, sparkled on the other. We headed for the …