Partly just because we hadn’t visited yet and partly to check out the little wildlife oasis, today we headed off to Moraira. We headed off early before it got too hot. The forecasters were suggesting very warm temperatures hitting 40°C.…
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Parque Natural del Hondo
I learned of this spot just a spit south of Alicante from an e-contact who was just getting into dragonflies and needed some help with identifications. He has a place in Alicante and his photos were taken at the Parque…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
Pink Delights
During our May trip to Spain, we’d discovered that a lot of dredging had been performed at our usual port of call in the Pego-Oliva marsh. That can be bad news because the odonata larvae living under water get dredged…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
Striped Graylings
A relaxing day. Today we went to visit our Dutch friends at their rental villa inland from Benidorm, already spoken about, albeit retrospectively, in my previous post. We had instructions, the critical part of which told us to turn left…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
Meat Market
Braving Benidorm for our very first time just to call in to the humongous Carrefour hipermarché there yesterday, we had lashed out on a shoulder of cabrito [kid goat] and a supposedly Wagyu steak. We tried the cabrito yesterday and…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
A Kind of Madness
Our next visit to Spain after the May 2016 trip was originally intended to be October 2016, for the accursed residents committee AGM. Unbounded joy! Recently, however, we discovered that some long lost Dutch friends had rented a villa not…
Posted in 2016-09 Spain
Pag Island
The last day of our trip, before the lengthy drag back to Ljubljana airport for our flight home tomorrow, was to be spent on Pag Island, a long, narrow spit of land off the Croatian coast. We piled into the…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Paklenica National Park
There’s that warning phrase again, National Park. Paklenica National Park covers the area of torrent flows of Velika Paklenica and Mala Paklenica, and their distinctive canyons carved vertically into the south slopes of Velebit Mountains and the broader surrounding area.…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Plitvice Lakes
Today we headed out of Slovenia and into Croatia for the first time.Our first stop was to be Plitvice Lakes, “declared a National Park in 1949” [the blurb said]. A new Country is always quite exciting. This really did feel…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
Bearing Up
I was seriously disappointed with our morning. We were heading for the Postojna cave, which is one of very few homes to Olms (Proteus anguinus), fully aquatic, blind, pink, cave salamanders existing only on the Dalmatian coast. Their colour leads…
Posted in 2016 Slovenia-Croatia
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