Catherine and Mark turning dreams into memories
Author: Mrs A Location: Lake Bohinj, Slovenia We left Ljubljana early to drive the 90 minutes up to Lake Bohinj, Slovenia’s largest permanent lake, in the hope we might be able to find a lakeside campsite for a couple of nights. There is one campground beside the lake, and they had told us to be …
Continue reading “16 July: Slovenia really takes our hearts”
Author: Mrs A Location: Kostanjevica na Krki and Dolenjske Toplice, Slovenia Saturday: After nearly four weeks travelling around Croatia we crossed the border into Slovenia this morning. A quick showing of passports and we were into new territory, and back in the European Union. Having lived in Australia for so many years crossing borders still …
Continue reading “13 – 14 July: Travelling the backroads of Slovenia”
Author: Mrs A Location: Sydney, Australia The past week has been full of friends, colour and laughter, starting with a Christmas day feast, lunch catch up in the city, and finishing the year with a bollywood inspired new year’s eve fancy dress party. Coming to the end of the year, it’s a great time to …
Author: Mr A Location: Broadford and Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK Scotland…the part of the British Isles that my parents fell in love with and retuned to for so many years of wonderful holidays, bird spotting, walking the hills when they could. To visit here and see some of the same places they must …
Continue reading “30 September – 2 October: Walking in my parents’ footsteps”
Author: Mrs A Location: Brighton, East Sussex, and London, UK Friday: We farewelled mainland Europe and after a four hour cruise from Dieppe to Newhaven were soon pulling up at the campground in Brighton, now very familiar being our third visit in Truffy. My sister Helen soon arrived with our niece and nephew for a …
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Author: Mr (and Mrs) A Location: Dieppe to Newhaven ferry, English Channel, Europe And so after just over 4 months touring Europe (we find ourselves already distinguishing that from the UK!) and we are on our way back to the UK. A time to reflect on our experiences. 110 of those nights were spent camping, …
Author: Mrs A Location: Wangan im Allgäu, and Lottstetten, Germany, The Rhine Falls, Switzerland Monday morning brought stormy skies and cool temperatures – struggling to reach 14°C by lunchtime. We farewelled Ottobeuren and drove west through Germany, heading to a town called Wangan. We parked up on a stellplatz (the German version of a parking …
Continue reading “12-14 August: A little taster of south-western Germany and into Switzerland”
Author: Mr A Location: Ferlach, Austria We were in the region of southern Austria called Corinthia – nope I’d never heard of either! Lonely Planet doesn’t often come up trumps, it on this occasion we liked the sound of the “lesser known” description, and judging by the nice quiet roads it does seem to be …
Continue reading “23 July: Austria – tasting the cycle routes of Corinthia”
Author: Mrs A Location: Kranjska Gora, Slovenia and Ferlach, Austria Another fine morning dawned so we decided to don the hiking shoes and explore a new dimension of Kranjska Gora, heading up into the mountains via the chair lift. Once up the top though, the walks were pretty much all up, and on a 30 …
Continue reading “22 July: On to our eighth country this year…”
Author: Mr A Location: Kranjska Gora, Slovenia How any times have you said when setting off for a ride…”well we had better take our passports!” Thats what we did today when we set off from the small ski village of Kranjska Gora in Slovenia to ride along a short section of cycleway that joins to …
Continue reading “21 July – Kranjska Gora: a ride in the Julian Alps”