No sign of rain today, so we took the bus to Lake Bled.  Slovenia may have many Austrian influences, but bus “queues” are very definitely Italian, and it was something of a free for all to get on board. If you try to get on the wrong bus, the driver just shakes his head with […]

Our last night in Trieste was not pleasant.  The wind got up.  As usual we had all the windows open, trying to catch the cooler night air.  The doors all started slamming, sounding like gunshots.  Ian had to prop them open with whatever came to hand – saucepans, trail shoes, etc.  In the end we had […]

Koper is a small but growing city on the Slovenian coast.  From here, many people take excursions to places like Piran, Ljubljana, or the Slovenian caves. Koper’s old town is tiny – you can walk from one side to the other in 15 minutes.  I looked at many options for our final port, but in […]